In Winfrey's account, she wanted to examine a Tom Ford handbag and asked the clerk to retrieve it from its glass display case. "It's not an indictment against the country or even that store," she continued. "She says, 'No, it's too expensive,' " Winfrey told "Entertainment Tonight." Winfrey said she was told she could not afford the $38,000 purse. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO 
 
 
 
 Speaking anonymously, the assistant at Trois Pommes, in Zurich, Switzerland (pictured) said it is 'absolutely not true that I declined to show her the bag on racist grounds' Ms Goetz said: 'Everyone wants to sell a crocodile bag. "You should be able to go in a store looking like whatever you look like and say, `I'd like to see this.' I'm really sorry that it got blown up. I didn't have anything," said Winfrey on the red carpet. "It was just one person who didn't want to offer me the opportunity to see the bag.
– After her comments about getting dissed by a racist saleswoman at a chichi Swiss boutique, Oprah Winfrey is, well, trying to be Switzerland—sort of. "I'm really sorry that it got blown up," she said last night. "I purposefully did not mention the name of the store. I'm sorry that I said it was Switzerland." But, while she says "it's not an indictment against the country or even that store," she's not walking back her contention that racism was involved, reports the AP. "It was just one person who didn't want to offer me the opportunity to see the bag." The aforementioned saleswoman denies that racism was even in the same room, reports the Daily Mail. "It is absolutely not true that I declined to show her the bag on racist grounds. I even asked her if she wanted to look at the bag." Further, she says that the brouhaha, which she likens to a "cyclone," has made her feel "powerless." Over at the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto dismisses the whole thing, saying, "What Winfrey construes as a racial episode is actually a story about class—a wealthy, privileged celebrity aggrieved by a lowly saleswoman's lack of deference."