Preloading

Why Brandy Felt Like She Had to Lie to Oprah to Protect Her Career

Season 4 Episode 403
Aired on 07/27/2014 | CC
In 2002, singing sensation Brandy came on The Oprah Winfrey Show with some big news: She was married and six months pregnant! In reality, Brandy was never legally married to her baby's father and feared that being pregnant out of wedlock would ruin the career she had worked so hard to build. "It was not something that people praised. ... It was a sin," Brandy says. "I felt like I could not be honest about that." Watch as she sets the record straight with Oprah.

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