Oprah Winfrey cops to one of her cringiest career ‘mistakes’ nearly three decades later

Oprah Winfrey’s short stint as a singer still haunts her to this day.

The former “Oprah Winfrey Show” host was reminded of her short-lived, self-recorded theme song, “Run On,” while on the “Baby, This Is Keke Palmer” podcast Thursday.

“Girl, please,” Winfrey responded, as Palmer started singing the tune. “OK. That is one of the mistakes of my career.

“What had happened was, I was trying to decide, ‘Am I going to end the show or not end the show?’ And then I had a little talk with Jesus, and Jesus said, ‘You gotta keep going.’ And so I said, ‘You know, there’s this song. It’s an old spiritual.’

“And then we realized, I can’t sing,” she quipped, “even though I took the singing lessons.”

The Emmy winner confessed that even adding a church choir for backup vocals couldn’t hide the fact that her rendition of the traditional spiritual song wasn’t good.

“It was bad. You know it was bad,” she concluded.

The daytime TV star sang her own theme song briefly in the late ‘90s, and her show aired nationally between 1986 and 2011.

This isn’t the first time someone has brought up Winfrey’s short-lived singing career.

Late singer Whitney Houston playfully sang a snippet of the gospel-style theme song while appearing on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1998 and 1999.

After 25 seasons of her iconic talk show, Winfrey eventually walked away from the series in 2011.

Although she has continued to build her media empire, she has never returned to music.