Oprah Winfrey's return to "The Late Show with David Letterman" on Thursday night was too Zen for comfort.
In Oprah's second-ever visit to the show (the first was December 2005), Dave drilled into her new thing for meditation and mantras — and while Letterman kept insisting that he, too, was into the art of silent reflection, Oprah wasn't buying it.
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But Winfrey was game as ever, parrying Dave's gentle mocking while defending her passion to get more people to meditate — her staff, her fans, anybody who'll listen.
Dave asked what her secret mantra was, and though he finally goaded her into whispering it into his ear, he couldn't help himself: "That’s mine. Honest to God, that’s mine."
Perhaps not surprisingly given the topic, Letterman looked even more relaxed than usual during the friendly, ongoing tête-à-tête that spawned a Super Bowl commercial. But that might have just been the "vodka and pills" — which Dave suggested as another effective relaxation technique.
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