April 8 (UPI) — Oprah Winfrey is looking back on her childhood crush on Paul McCartney.
The media mogul, 72, discussed her love for the former Beatles member, 83, during Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
“I was the only girl in my neighborhood who collected Beatle cards. I loved the Beatles — of course Paul was my favorite Beatle,” Winfrey said. “I used to try to make him think of me. I used to wake in the morning and I’d stand on the stairs and I’d say, ‘Think of me, think of me, think of me.'”
“Then, when I first interviewed Paul McCartney years later, my first question to him was, ‘All those years, I was 14 and I was thinking of you. Did you ever once think of me?’ And he said, ‘Every day, babe. Every day.’ Isn’t that the sweetest?”
While Winfrey said marrying McCartney is the only dream of hers that never came true, she did sit next to the musician at their Kennedy Center Honors ceremony in 2010 and again in March while attending his daughter Stella McCartney’s fashion show.
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Winfrey has been in a relationship with her partner Stedman Graham for nearly 40 years, but previously explained to Vogue that they never married because it would have ultimately led to divorce.
McCartney, meanwhile, was married to his first wife, Linda McCartney, for nearly 30 years. His second marriage was to former model Heather Mills and he married Nancy Shevell in 2011.