The Swiss clerk who allegedly told Oprah Winfrey that she couldn’t afford a $38,000 bag in Zurich is telling the media that that’s not the whole truth.
In fact, the sales assistant at the luxury boutique Trois Pommes is calling our beloved Oprah a liar. Yep, that happened.
Speaking anonymously to newspaper the clerk says she felt powerless after Winfrey went on television to accuse her of the racist deed.
“This is not true. This is absurd. I would never say something like that to a customer. Really never. Good manners and politeness are the Alpha and the Omega in this business. I don’t know why she is making these accusations. She is so powerful and I am just a shop girl. I didn’t hurt anyone. I don’t know why someone as great as her must cannibalize me on TV. “
The woman says the interaction didn’t exactly go down like Oprah said it did.
“I wasn’t sure what I should present to her when she came in on the afternoon of Saturday July 20 so I showed her some bags from the Jennifer Aniston collection. I explained to her the bags came in different sizes and materials, like I always do. She looked at a frame behind me. Far above there was the 35,000 Swiss franc crocodile leather bag. I simply told her that it was like the one I held in my hand, only much more expensive, and that I could show her similar bags. 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.”
But that’s not the end of that. The sales clerk even goes as far as suggesting that the story is fabricated because Oprah didn’t mention the incident to her boss.
“If it had all taken place as she claimed, why has she not complained the next day at the wedding of Tina Turner with Trudie Goetz, my boss? She was there also at the Turner wedding as a guest. I don’t understand it.”
And in the end, she claims it could have all been a misunderstanding.
“I spoke to Oprah Winfrey in English. My English is okay but not excellent, unfortunately.”
In which case…that’s totally understandable. Let’s just hope that’s true, because the rudely racist snub we all learned of last week is unacceptable.
SOURCE: Daily Mail
