10 Silly things you won’t believe celebrities are afraid of (With Pictures)

6. Oprah Winfrey – Chewing Gum

What’s the worst that can happen with chewing gum? Maybe on the schoolyard when you were a kid, there was the possibility that someone would stick it in your hair (or vice-versa), but otherwise, millions of people chew gum every day without incident. Oprah Winfrey, talk show host and media mogul, will never be among those masses.

In fact, she despises chewing gum so much that she will ban anyone from having it in her vicinity. “Do you know why I have a whole thing about gum? In Mississippi, my grandmother used to chew gum, then stick it in the cabinet. There were rows and rows of Juicy Fruit and Spearmint,” she explained (probably with a shudder) in her own magazine in an interview with Jamie Foxx.