King says she took comfort in her friend's assurance that she'd be okay, because "Oprah knows things." Oprah Winfrey was in tears watching her longtime friend Gayle King launch into space as part of a recent all-female Blue Origin expedition.

Winfrey shed a few tears as she watched King blast off into space with an all-female crew on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on April 14

Following her trip to outer space with the first-ever all-female space crew, Gayle King is revealing new details about how longtime best friend, Oprah Winfrey, reacted when the 11-minute trip came to an end. Speaking with E! News during last night's Time100 Gala, the CBS Mornings host told the publication that Winfrey was "so welled up."