BARNSTABLE, Massachusetts (AP):

Oprah Winfrey is confessing to her love of a Massachusetts pie company's creations.

A spokeswoman for her production company initially denied that Winfrey had purchased a pile of pies from the Centerville Pie Co while on Cape Cod for Eunice Kennedy Shriver's funeral last week. But on Wednesday, the talk-show mogul called the Cape Cod Times to say, yes, "the pie-gate escapade actually did happen".

Delivered 20 pies

Pie company owner Kristin Broadley says she delivered a chicken-pot pie to Winfrey's travelling party last week, then followed with two more orders. Broadley says she delivered a total of 20 pies, including chicken, custard and banana cream, to Winfrey's crew.

Broadley says a mention of the pies on a radio show hosted by Winfrey's friend Gayle King has sparked a flood of orders.