Late last year fellow daytime star Oprah Winfrey said she will end her series and roll out a cable channel OWN in 2011.

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AMARILLO, Texas (CNN) -- "Free speech not only lives, it rocks, " a beaming Oprah Winfrey said Thursday after jurors rejected a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit by Texas cattlemen.

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Finally, of course, he went to Oprah Winfrey and said he'd been lying all along.

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Oprah, amazed, said, even now, as you confess so much wrongdoing, you are happier than through your years on top of the world?

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' So hats off to her, and like I've always said, when Oprah says it, it is done.

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The lawsuit, filed against Mr. Armstrong and his agent, comes three weeks after Mr. Armstrong said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that he had used performance-enhancing drugs when he captured his seven Tour de France titles.

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"It just happened, " Cruise said, according to a story on Oprah.com recapping the interview.

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Dan Wuori, a writer at cycling publication Velo Magazine, said Armstrong may reveal a lot during the Oprah interview.

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While talk-show host Oprah Winfrey has not released details of exactly what Armstrong said in the recorded interview, she appeared to confirm media reports Tuesday that the former seven-time Tour de France champion admits doping and lying about it.

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"I believe it brought validity to 'Precious' ' story as a universal story, because Oprah and Tyler speak to the masses, " Siegel-Magness said.

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