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The students at Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls are off on summer break following a first year marred by allegations of sexual abuse. But looking back on the semester, Winfrey says "I don?t' regret"
opening the school.
"From the very first half hour, after I was able to pull myself together, I knew that this too shall pass," Winfrey told People at the premiere of "The Great Debaters," a film she produced starring Denzel Washington. "Just work on it, focus on the girls, focus on the girls, focus on the girls. And the girls are now fine."
After a student went public in September with claims of abuse, an investigation was launched and a dorm matron was suspended and arrested. Winfrey, devastated,n issued an immediate public apology to the families of the students, saying, "I've disappointed you. I'm so sorry."
"I think that all crisis is there to teach you about your life," Winfrey said at the Tuesday night event in Los Angeles. The biggest lesson learned: "You have to be far more careful in choosing people to stand in the gap for you. You have to stay on it."
Looking forward to the next semester, Winfrey said: "The school is going to be better because that happened. We're going to come back and have the best year ever."
