The queen of talk shows, Oprah Winfrey, said she was amazed to find out about her father's book called "Things Unspoken," that hasn't yet hit the bookstores, and is yet to be published.

"I was upset. I won't say devastated, but I was stunned," Winfrey told New York's Daily News in a story published Tuesday.

"It made me laugh recently when one of my assistants said, 'The Daily News is calling. They say they heard your father is writing a book about you.'

"I said, 'That's impossible. I can assure them it's not true.' But then my sister said, 'I think you should call your father.'

"I called him and it turned out he is writing a book. The worst part of it was him saying, 'I meant to tell you I've been working on it" the star recalled.

Several passages from the book are already public putting Winfrey in a different light than the one we know.

"Our daughter was out of hand, an unruly child," 74-year-old Vernon Winfrey quoted Oprah's mother, Vernita, as saying, "She said she stayed out all times of the night and lied regarding her whereabouts, said she made herself known to boys," he writes.

"She had secrets," writes Oprah's father. "Dark secrets," he continues. "Some I didn't discover till she was a grown woman, till it was too late."

Winfrey, who as a teenager lived with her father in Nashville after she got pregnant, said that Vernon was the last person she expected to write a book about her.

"I would have preferred to have known my father was working on this. It would have been a nice gesture, a courtesy," she said.