AvaDuVernay gets teary-eyed while delivering emotional speech after Oprah throws her an incredible 50th birthday party
reported on the epic three-day birthday bash that Winfrey threw for Ava DuVernay, celebrating the Emmy-winning director’s 50th birthday at Winfrey’s home in Maui.As Winfrey recalled, her friendship with DuVernay began a decade ago while she was working on Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” back in 2012, when her co-star David Oyelowo recommended she check out an indie film called “Middle of Nowhere”, which DuVernay had directed.
Day 2 of DuVernay’s 50th-birthday extravaganza fell on August 24, her actual birthday, with Winfrey and King showing up to surprise their friend that morning. Winfrey gushed in her birthday speech for DuVernay: “We are alike in so many ways and different in so many other ways, but her strengths and weaknesses build my strengths and weaknesses. I build strengths from her strengths. She makes me a better woman.”
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