Oprah Winfrey has warned that family estrangement is becoming a 'silent epidemic' in modern society, and termed it a 'cultural shift', but critics argue that the media icon helped create the very 'cutoff culture' she is cautioning against.
Family experts and relationship coaches claim decades of Winfrey's messaging around emotional boundaries and 'cutting off toxic people' normalised estrangement, leaving countless families fractured and grieving.
