“Wow,” Phillips said, looking visibly shaken and anxious (via YouTube).
“This wasn’t exactly how I envisioned this going down, but that’s alright.”
Phillips said she felt “vulnerable and frightened” right before she read aloud from her book.

“But [Phillips] could say that about herself because she wrote those words,” Winfrey explained.
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