Oprah Winfrey expressed gratitude for messages of support she has received following the death of her mother, Vernita Lee.

Lee, who was 83, died on Thanksgiving at her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, according to a family statement provided to People.

She wrote ;

“Thank you all for your kind words and condolences regarding my mother Vernita Lee’s passing,” Winfrey wrote in an Instagram post on Monday. “It gives our family great comfort knowing she lived a good life and is now at Peace.”

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