Speaking to TV show Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet of her network’s new series, Love Is, Oprah quashed the story.

“The story was that Meghan’s mom had come to my house and she left ‘laden with gifts’,” Oprah said.

“You know what the gifts were? First of all, she’s great at yoga, so I said ‘bring your yoga mat and your sneaks in case we just want to do yoga on the lawn’. So one of the bags was a yoga mat and the other was lunch.”

And the basket “laden with gifts”? Actually just full of… kumquats.

Winfrey told Entertainment Tonight that the pair had eaten a dessert containing kumquat, at which point Ragland expressed her love for the fruit.

“She said, ‘I love kumquats!’ and I said ‘I have a kumquat tree! You want some kumquats?’. So it was a basket of kumquats, people.”

“For all the people who said I am getting her gifts, and I’m trying to bribe her for an interview – they were kumquats. If kumquats can get you an interview, I’m all for it!”.

This is what was really in that basket of gifts Oprah gave Meghan Markle's mum