Hello PrincessKaimi - I believe that our posters here were responding to rmay's post with regard to lack of communication devices.
I'm not sure that Oprah was going to be catching Sarah's lies - or for that matter, even looking for inconsistencies. This wasn't an interview, like in an actual seeking-answers-to-hard-questions. This was a commercial, prepared by Oprah, for an Oprah product, featuring an Oprah employee (Sarah.) The best construct on it would be an informercial; I haven't made a study of them but it doesn't seem to me that the back and forth of a commercial or an infomercial is designed to elicit anything remotely resembling an interview.
So Finding Sarah has been launched and there is a book pending. It will be interesting if Sarah can reboot her brand, or if this is the coda to her public life. Perhaps that 1986 wedding really was the high-water mark of her life.
I'm sorry - I was joking about Oprah's real ability to "catch lies". I'm the one who claims that Opran is the modern Pope - she sells her beneficience to Sarah and to her audience. That's what her audience has come to expect.
But Sarah did not lie about not having a telephone - she never said she didn't have one. I think Sarah looked as if she was trying very hard to understand what was going on in the interview (I felt badly for Sarah - she and Oprah both know it's an infomercial, but it's an infomercial in which both the subject, Sarah, and Oprah, have agreed Sarah has to publicly state that she screwed up her whole life, has no sense of self, feels terrible about herself every day of her life, etc.
Of course the wedding was the highwater mark, it already was - but the show made sure we saw it. Oprah's audience contains a lot of fifty-somethings, whose great moments of glory are in their past. Oprah herself is "retiring," (I hear she wants to do a show on Broadway) and Oprah alone will be the person who emerges from the Oprah Kingdom as someone who can continue to have glorious moments.
Sarah's show (they showed a brief clip) certainly contains much more dramatic footage than the interview (if the clip is representative, there's going to be quite a bit of crying). It's possible that the brief clips of Sarah and her two daughters are from the show (where they are clinging to her and she's petting them).
I too was responding to posters here who were trying to insist that Sarah was openly lying about something as mundane as phones in Thailand. She seems lost, but still spunky, but basically heartbroken. She also looked really different in that clip where she's selling favors (boy, was that awful) than she on the show, I think the main point of Sarah's new endeavors is to get out of the freefall that scandal caused (it was only a year ago) and Oprah is glad to make money off of Sarah's need to rise in public esteem.
If only for her daughters (I hear the rumor that Beatrice might want to be a fashion designer), Sarah needs to remove a bit of the tarnish. Did she? I'd say that in terms of the American Oprah audience (a group of people who are all around me, but whom I do not completely understand), yes, yes she did. Oprah knows how to do it: put the scandal up front, give a several "therapeutic" moments with Not-Dr. Phil and Suze (and herself: "Sarah is broken and needs to be broken open.") Now Sarah is better (according to Oprah).