A woman calling herself "Jesus Christ" has sent a letter to Oprah Winfrey, just weeks after the media mogul announced that she would run for presidential office if she gets a sign from God.
Earlier this week, Winfrey's friend, Gayle King, took to Instagram to share a photo of a letter the media mogul received from Maine resident Jesus A. Christ.
"My assist @jznotthatjayz w/letter that just arrived @Oprahmagazine. Hey @Oprah is this the sign you're looking for??" King wrote.
The Daily Mail reported that the 83-year-old woman who sent the letter to Winfrey had legally changer her name 50 years ago.
After the name change, she began a letter-writing campaign to spread a message of "faith, peace and priorities."
The woman noted that she often gets ridiculed because of her name. "Most of them think I'm plain crazy and ignore me," she told CBS 13. She said that she has spoken to five other people with the name Jesus Christ in the U.S., but she is the only woman with that name.
She had claimed that she did not know about the rumors of Winfrey's run for the presidency and was not aware that the TV mogul was waiting for a sign from God.
The 83-year-old north Waterboro resident said she only sent the letter because she likes her, and did not think that it would get much attention. However, she did say that she would vote for Winfrey if she decides to run. After hearing that Winfrey has received her letter, she said: "Thank you father! He gets done what he wants."
Speculations about Winfrey's run for the presidency came after her speech at the 2018 Golden Globes when she accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award. The TV mogul, however, said that she has not considered running for president because she has not received a clear sign from God.
"I went into prayer," Winfrey told PEOPLE magazine. "'God, if you think I'm supposed to run, you gotta tell me, and it has to be so clear that not even I can miss it.' And I haven't gotten that," she added.
Winfrey noted that King tried to convince her to take the matter seriously and had presented her with messages of support from others who would back her candidacy.
"I had people—wealthy, billionaires—calling me up and saying, 'I can get you a billion dollars. I can run your campaign.' That many people saying something made me think, 'Am I at least supposed to look at the question?'" she said.
