American chat show host Oprah Winfrey has been caught up in a racist row in a swiss shop.
Oprah was shopping at a bag store in Zurich where she saw a bag that she liked costing £24,477 and asked the lady behind the counter to have a look and she was told that she couldn't afford that type of bag and was refused to see the blue bag.
Chatting to Entertainment Tonight Winfrey said:
"I was in Zurich the other day, in a store whose name I will not mention. I didn't have my eyelashes on, but I was in full Oprah Winfrey gear. I had my little Donna Karan skirt and my little sandals. But obviously The Oprah Winfrey Show is not shown in Zurich.
"I go into a store and I say to the woman, 'Excuse me, may I see the bag right above your head?' and she says to me, 'No. It's too expensive'."
When Oprah asked to see the bag again the shop worker replied:
"No, no you don’t want to see that one, you want to see this one because that one will cost too much. You will not be able to afford that."
Then the woman started to get other bags down for Oprah to look at all apart from the one she wanted.
Then showing how nice Oprah is she then turned around to the shop worker and said:
"She said, 'Oh I don’t want to hurt your feelings' and I said, 'Ok thank you so much you’re probably right I can’t afford it'."
The shop owner Trudie Goetz has said in a statment:
"It was a translation problem. The shop assistant's mother tongue is Italian," Ms Goetz said.
"She was very nervous because it's not everyday somebody comes in to buy such an expensive handbag. She simply offered Oprah examples of cheaper ones and that's when she thought the shop assistant didn't want to sell her the bag.
"I don't know why so much trouble has been caused.
"I don't have Oprah's number to say sorry so I will get it from Tina Turner."
Oprah was in Zurich because she was attending Tina Turners birthday party and so was the shop owner.
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