One woman got the surprise of a lifetime after Oprah Winfrey's driver
nearly crushed her ankle.
It is reported that the Queen of Talk 's driver ran over Parkland,
Fla. resident Lori Geller Bender's foot with a huge SUV as the
mother-of- two was arriving to Miami restaurant Prime 112 on Saturday
night.
Bender recalls that her husband Kevin banged on the vehicle to have
the driver remove his wheels from his wife's toes that were trapped
under the SUV's tires.
"We were crossing the street to arrive at the restaurant, and there
were a lot of cameras. I could see a big crowd of security guards, and
as soon as Oprah got into the car, it pulled out from the curb, and a
wheel went over my foot," Bender told Reporters. "I was wearing heels,
my toe was trapped under the wheel and I fell to the ground, hitting
my coccyx and my head." Bender added that it could've been a lot
worse. "I am lucky because if the SUV had gone slightly further
forward it would have crushed my whole ankle," she said.
That's when Oprah appeared. "The driver reversed off my foot and
Oprah jumped out. She couldn't have been nicer and more gracious," she
said of the TV talk-show host. "She looked really shocked and asked me
if I was OK, and took a good look at my foot. I wasn't hurt, and I
told her I was fine. Oprah said, 'Well, that's worth a picture,' and
she put her arm around me and we took some photos.
" Oprah, couldn't have known how much this meant to Bender, but the
44-year-old told the reporters, "It has always been on my bucket list
to meet Oprah, but I could never have imagined it would be because her
driver ran over my toe. It's a crazy story."
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