Did Oprah Really Slap Celebrity Cook Ina Garten? [Video]

Oprah Winfrey and Ina Garten are setting the record straight. The two TV icons go way back, and on a recent podcast episode, they both took the time to clarify their friendship and stories about them, specifically whether or not Winfrey actually slapped the TV cook back in the day.

In Garten’s memoir released earlier this year, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” she recalls an exchange between her and Winfrey at New York Women In Communications’ Matrix Awards in 2010, a story that quickly got picked up on social media. While accepting her award, Garten says she told the audience that she’d, “been lucky” in her life, then proceeded to sit down. After sitting, Garten explains that Winfrey then “smacked” her on the arm, telling Garten, “You make your …