Independent head honcho Oprah Winfrey wore a lavish striped cashmere cover as she left the Four Seasons Lodging New York Downtown on Thursday in the wake of partaking in her first outing to Manhattan in quite a while.

The Mississippi local likewise wore a dark cashmere sew turtleneck and matching jeans and boots.

Oprah — who went through twofold knee substitution medical procedure in 2021 — wore round glasses over her cosmetics coloring and styled her raven hair into an energetic braid for her excursion.

Winfrey rejoined with her dear companion of 47 years — CBS Mornings co-have Gayle Lord — to see the restoration of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Piano Examples at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.

Behind the stage, the OWN President told chief LaTanya Richardson Jackson that the film was “mind boggling, splendid” and the columnist adulated the cast and said the film was “worth keeping awake until late to investigate” – as indicated by Oprah Day to day.

Oprah and Gayle – who were shot with Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Streams and John David Washington – broadly went through the night together when they initially met in 1976 because of a snowstorm in Baltimore, however they weren’t are a lesbian couple.

‘I understand why people think we’re gay,’ Winfrey admitted to O magazine back in 2006.

‘There isn’t a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it – how can you be this close without it being 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual? I’ve told nearly everything there is to tell. All my stuff is out there. People think I’d be so ashamed of being gay that I wouldn’t admit it? Oh, please.’

Missing from the Big Apple fun was the Emmy and Tony-winning producer’s partner since 1986 – motivational speaker Stedman Graham – who was last pictured sitting at the head of the table opposite her on Thanksgiving.