Oprah with Belle Burden on the Collapse of Her 20 Year Marriage Her Bestselling Memoir

<p>It’s the new memoir that has captured the attention of women and as Oprah describes, “everyone is talking about it."  From the outside, Belle Burden seemed to have the perfect life: three thriving kids, a happy marriage and a summer home on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Then, one day, she gets a phone call that shatters everything she believed to be true about her marriage and her life. Oprah sits down with Belle to talk about the devastation that followed the shocking end of her marriage and how she slowly rebuilt her life into something better than she could have imagined. Drawing on revelations shared in her New York Times bestseller, Strangers: A Memoir of a Marriage, Belle tells Oprah how her prestigious family pedigree couldn’t protect her from the pain of divorce. She also explains how sharing her story has empowered her to become the person she was meant to be. </p>
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<p>00:00:00 - Welcome Belle Burden, author of ‘Strangers’ </p>
<p>00:03:30 - Belle learning of her husband’s affair </p>
<p>00:12:10 - After learning of the affair </p>
<p>00:16:00 - Being told she was crazy </p>
<p>00:17:48 - Telling their kids</p>
<p>00:25:00 - The search for why </p>
<p>00:26:15 - Is divorce worse than death?</p>
<p>00:27:40 - The shame of being left</p>
<p>00:30:35 - Why she wrote the NYT essay</p>
<p>00:34:00 - Her path forward </p>
<p>00:35:35 - Why she wrote the book </p>
<p>00:36:30 - What she hopes her book gives other women </p>
<p>00:38:50 - Her prenup </p>
<p>00:42:36 - Belle’s mother Amanda joins </p>
<p>00:46:15 - He didn’t want joint custody</p>
<p>00:49:20 - What she had to do every day</p>
<p>00:53:30 - How she feels now </p>
<p>01:01:22 - Belle on her book</p>
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