Oprah Blames 30 Pound Mac and Cheese Binge on Evil Doll 
 
 Email This Oprah Winfrey is one talk-show queen (and now head of OWN Network) who never shies away from discussing her lifelong battle to maintain a healthy weight. 
 
 
 
 In an outtake from her interview airing next Monday during the premiere episode of 'Piers Morgan Tonight,' Oprah candidly opens up about one scary movie character that literally caused her to eat her emotions... in the form of cheddar and carbohydrates. 
 
 
 
 Oprah says that when her film 'Beloved' premiered in 1998, the same weekend as the iconic horror film 'Bride of Chucky,' she knew by early Saturday that the box office had been dominated by the gore-filled flick. 
 
 
 
 Oprah recalls, "I didn't even know what 'Chucky' was. So, I asked my chef at the time to make some macaroni and cheese... and I ate about 30 pounds worth. I'm not kidding!" 
 
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 But Oprah is, after all, Oprah, so she used the experience as a learning moment."I think the way life is set up, for most people who have the opportunity to succeed, is that if you get the lesson, you don't have to repeat that again," she says.'Chucky' might have beat out Oprah back in 1998, but I think it's safe to say she's gotten her revenge on the scary doll through her successes over the past decade. Child's play is no match for a strong, powerful woman who, very humanly, still has moments of weakness and stuffs her feelings. ||||| Oprah Winfrey is officially in the food business. 
 
 The media mogul is launching O, That’s Good!, a line of health-conscious, heat-and-eat foods in collaboration with Kraft Heinz, the star tells PEOPLE exclusively in the new issue, on stands Friday. The comfort food collection includes four refrigerated side dishes and four refrigerated soups—all with a nutritious “twist.” The initial offering is Original Mashed Potatoes and Garlic Mashed Potatoes (both with added mashed cauliflower), Three Cheese Pasta (with added butternut squash), Creamy Parmesan Pasta (with added white beans), Broccoli Cheddar Soup (with added butternut squash), Creamy Tomato Basil Soup (with added celery and carrots), Baked Potato Soup (with added cauliflower) and Creamy Butternut Squash Soup (with added pureed sweet potatoes and carrots). 
 
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 “I’ve been asked over the years to do anything you can imagine to attach my name to it to,” Winfrey, 63, tells PEOPLE. “I have always just wanted to stay in my lane and to do what was organic for me, authentic and natural. Food would be it.” 
 
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 The company, she says, won her over with its desire to bring variety and wellness to the refrigerated food aisle. “They mentioned the idea of making nutritious food accessible to a lot of communities that do not have that option,” she says. “And that is what intrigued me.” The soups will retail at supermarkets for $4.99 each, and sides for $4.49 each. 
 
 Winfrey, a self-proclaimed food lover, was involved with the development and testing process from the beginning, including doing multiple tastings with the team to create recipes that felt true to her own diet. 
 
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 “The twist on the cauliflower mashed potatoes, which is really what sparked this whole thing, is me sitting at the table in my own house and whipping up some cauliflowers,” the Wrinkle in Time star says. “And I was thinking, gosh, this really isn’t mashed potatoes. But what if you actually used only a portion of the mashed potatoes and added the cauliflower? Then you would have a substantive potato-cauli dish. I’ve eaten more cauliflower and potatoes then you can imagine trying to get the exact right summation of cauliflower to potatoes. I think we did it.” 
 
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 The O, That’s Good! line—which got its name from Winfrey’s reaction to the winning recipes—will begin appearing in grocery stores in early August and will be available nationally by October. “I love soup,” she raves. “I associate it with warmth and love, so I have soup almost everyday.” 
 
 One thing consumers may notice, though, is the absence of Weight Watchers points printed on the packaging. For this line of veggie-infused foods, the Weight Watchers spokeswoman chose to keep the two projects separate. 
 
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 “We’re not calling it diet food because people don’t want to be on a diet,” Winfrey explains. “We’re not putting points on [the packaging] so that people can’t say, ‘What if I’m not on that program?’ It’s just a step in the direction of getting folks to eat better.” 
 
 The star jokes that with her newfound food experience, she’ll expand on one element of her Weight Watchers partnership. “The next thing you know I’ll be staring a bread company,” Winfrey says, referencing her public declarations about loving bread. “Only kidding, but if I could start a bread company I would. I haven’t figured out because bread doesn’t ship well. You can’t get it to last without putting a lot of preservatives in it. So it’s important to me stuff be as desirable and fresh as possible.” 
 
 For more on our exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey about her new ready-to-eat food line, pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
– Oprah Winfrey was not happy when her 1998 film Beloved got trounced at the box office by, of all things, Bride of Chucky. "I didn't even know what 'Chucky' was,” she tells Piers Morgan in an outtake from their interview. “So, I asked my chef at the time to make some macaroni and cheese ... and I ate about 30 pounds worth. I'm not kidding!" Of course, being Oprah, she learned from the experience: Watch above or click here to find out how. The full interview airs on CNN Monday.