Oprah Winfrey is the happiest person she knows.

The media mogul – who has close ties to businessman Stedman Graham – doesn’t think anyone else has a ‘better’ life than her and she feels very lucky.

She said: ‘I don’t know who is happier. I don’t know who has a better life, or has a better life. I look at other people and I think, they look happy. But not as happy as me.”

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A palace for a queen: The star likes nothing more than to sit on the porch of her mansion in Montecito, California

When she gets down time, Oprah loves nothing more than simply doing ‘nothing’ on her California estate.

‘I’ve gone a summer not having it on. No, my guilty pleasure is, I do nothing.

‘I live in a very beautiful space that I created, and every time I leave home and I’m driving out the back with the pond and the ducks, and I’m looking at the grass and I see the house on the hill, I have this moment where I think about when Dorothy says in The Wizard of Oz, ‘I learnt I didn’t have to look further than my own back yard.’

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‘Every time I think of that.’

Her home is a mansion in Montecito, California, which has been valued at $90 million.

‘Most people don’t even know what makes them happy. But I can just sit on my porch and I’ll start reading a book and then realise, OK, I’m not reading any more. I can just take it all in. I can just be.’

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Oprah is proud of the fact she ‘never’ took time off sick during her long-running talk show because she didn’t want to let down her audience.

She explained: ‘I never missed a day in 25 years for The Oprah Winfrey Show no matter how sick I was. Not one.

‘Why? Because I would always think about those people coming. You’ve got the whole manicure, pedicure. You’ve got a new dress. You’ve told your neighbours, the people you work with. Then you get there and I’m not there? You would rather see me ill, falling off the chair. That’s the way I saw it.’