Oprah Winfrey has said that her legal staff overreacted to a fan promoting her a possible canditdate for the US presidency.

He lawyers took legal action against Patrick Crowe who has been campaigning for years for Winfrey lead presidential campaign.

Speaking to AP Winfrey said: "I feel flattered by it. "My lawyers overreacted, I think, by sending him a cease-and-desist order."

According to the BBC last month her lawyers demanded that a photo was removed by Crowe from his website and a book his has written.

Winfrey has once again said that she has no political aspirations.