( CNN ) -- Oprah Winfrey , who was pregnant at 14 and lost the baby , said she thought about killing herself and saw the loss of the child as a second chance . In a wide-ranging interview that aired Monday during the premiere of CNN 's `` Piers Morgan Tonight , '' the talk show queen also spoke about love , her long-term partner , Stedman Graham , and what she plans to do with all her money once she 's gone . Winfrey , 56 , said she was sent to live with her father in Nashville when she was a young teenager . He laid down the rules of his house early , and without knowing she was pregnant . `` ' I would rather see a daughter of mine floating down the Cumberland River , ' he said , 'than to bring shame on this family and the indecency of an illegitimate child , ' '' Winfrey said , quoting her father . `` He 's saying that to me , and I know that I am pregnant . So I 'm thinking , well , I 'm just going to have to kill myself , '' she said . Winfrey did not attempt suicide , though she said she tried things that were cries for help -- like drinking detergent . `` When the baby died , I knew that it was my second chance , '' she said . Winfrey , best known for the `` The Oprah Winfrey Show , '' now runs her own channel , appropriately titled OWN . She described her longtime partner , Stedman Graham , as someone who is `` willing to stand in and stand up '' for her . `` The reason this relationship has worked as well as it has is because we each got to define ourselves in it and not in a traditional form . There 's nothing about it that 's traditional , '' Winfrey said . `` I am a different kind of woman in that I am pretty assured that had I married I would n't have remained married . '' `` I 'm just not the marrying kind , '' she said . The talk show queen said she 's had her heart broken twice . Winfrey also discussed what she plans to do with her massive fortune once she dies . `` When I 'm gone , everything that I have is going to go to charity because I do n't have children . And I believe that that 's what you should do , '' she said . `` To whom much is given , much should be given back . ''
She is thinking about killing herself . ` ` I ' m just not the marrying kind , '' she says . Winfrey says she 's had her heart broken twice .