Oprah with Belle Burden on the Collapse of Her 20 Year Marriage & Her Bestselling Memoir
2026-03-31 · 66 min · episode 71 · 13 entities
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It’s the new memoir that has captured the attention of women and as Oprah describes, “everyone is talking about it." From the outside, Belle Burden seemed to have the perfect life: three thriving kids, a happy marriage and a summer home on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Then, one day, she gets a phone call that shatters everything she believed to be true about her marriage and her life. Oprah sits down with Belle to talk about the devastation that followed the shocking end of her marriage and how she slowly rebuilt her life into something better than she could have imagined. Drawing on revelations shared in her New York Times bestseller, Strangers: A Memoir of a Marriage, Belle tells Oprah how her prestigious family pedigree couldn’t protect her from the pain of divorce. She also explains how sharing her story has empowered her to become the person she was meant to be.
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00:00:00 - Welcome Belle Burden, author of ‘Strangers’
00:03:30 - Belle learning of her husband’s affair
00:12:10 - After learning of the affair
00:16:00 - Being told she was crazy
00:17:48 - Telling their kids
00:25:00 - The search for why
00:26:15 - Is divorce worse than death?
00:27:40 - The shame of being left
00:30:35 - Why she wrote the NYT essay
00:34:00 - Her path forward
00:35:35 - Why she wrote the book
00:36:30 - What she hopes her book gives other women
00:38:50 - Her prenup
00:42:36 - Belle’s mother Amanda joins
00:46:15 - He didn’t want joint custody
00:49:20 - What she had to do every day
00:53:30 - How she feels now
01:01:22 - Belle on her book
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