Oprah walks out and the audience screams.

Oprah Winfrey: Woho! Hey! Woo! (waves and bows) It's our 20^th season premiere! (audience goes nuts) Woohoo! 20^th! 20^th! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you, America. Thank you. Our 20^th season premiere, I can't believe it. Welcome to our brand new television theatre. Okay, it has been quite a summer. Of course, we all still have Katrina on our minds and later I'm going to announce what I'm personally going to do help rebuild lives with some big idea and I'll need all of you to help me to make it happen. I've been thinking about what I could do and I came up with somethin'. (audience applauds) Okay, that's a little later. Now it's time to reveal the most elaborated makeover in Oprah's show history along with Key Harpo expert set designer Anton who spent two years designing our brand new theatre... (audience applauds)

20^th! 20^th! 20^th! (audience applauds and calms down after Oprah makes a calming gesture)

So remember...

Audience member: You're awesome!

Oprah: Thank you! ... (con'd) this is what the set looked like before, this is what we looked like before, remember? (view of the old set) Okay and now welcome to our new ho-o-ome! (the new set is revealed and the crows freaks out)

Okay, I'm thrilled to welcome my first special guest of our 20^th season. She's the woman everybody wants to... (crowd goes wild, Oprah looks like: Wow.) Wait a minute. (Oprah laughs because the crowd doesn't stop screaming) Okay. Yes, you do. Let me just say this: She's the woman everyone wants to talk to; please welcome Jennifer Aniston! (crowd goes wild again and Jennifer walks out, Jennifer waves to the crowd with a big smile on her face and when she's near the couch she takes a big present from a crew member. She then hugs Oprah and they stay hip-to-hip until the crowd finally calms down)

Oprah: Feel the love, girl.

Jennifer: Yeah.

Oprah: Feel the love, girl.

Jennifer: Yeah, that's a lot of love.

Oprah: Isn't that a lot of love?

Jennifer: Wow, thank you. (to Oprah) Hey. Congratulations on your new studio. (hands over the present)

Oprah: Just open?

Jennifer: Just open, sure.

Oprah: (reveals two champagne glasses in the box) Ooh, hello-oh! (notices a guy walking towards them with a bottle of champagne) We're gonna have it?!

Jennifer: (shrugs)

Oprah: What the hell...?

Jennifer: It's the christening... It's the christening of the... of the stage, of the studio.

Oprah: Ah, okay.

Jennifer: And you know... (sees that it's enough champagne in her glass) oh, there you go, that's good. (they clink glasses) To you, and to everything that you do.

Oprah: Well, thank you.

Jennifer: Thank you. (both take a sip)

Oprah: (to the crowd) Hello! (crowd cheers) Well, did you hear the people applauding like you were a Rockstar? (people scream again, Jen smiles) I mean... can you feel... they're like... (gestures around with her hands) I love her, I love her.

Jennifer: (heartfelt) I love them.

Oprah: And I know that you feel... you look so good.

Jennifer: Thank you. (crowd applauds)

Oprah: You look so good.

Jennifer: Thank you, honey.

Oprah: I know... I saw Jen the other day, I'll tell you about that in a minute. But I saw you and said, "Are you doing Pilates or something?" Cause I was walking behind you and you look like... I said you look like an ad for Pilates. (Jen and a few people laugh) Cause your legs were moving...

Jennifer: I was moving from my center.

Oprah: You're moving from your center. What are you doing?

Jennifer: Doing the yoga thing. Doing the yoga thing.

Oprah: The yoga thing.

Jennifer: You know, the mind, body, soul of it all. And so I kind of... I really, you know... I don't walk around with the yoga matt on the streets.

Oprah: No... so how much do you do?

Jennifer: I do it about three times a week.

Oprah: So we're not gonna sit here and pretend like we don't know each other because Jennifer and her friends, all of her... some of her closest friends. Four of her closest friends, it was. Drea, Kris, Andrea and Leah all spent the weekend with me and my friends this past weekend. And what I noticed with you guys...

Jennifer: It was just a fantastic... (mouths the rest of her thoughts, a few people laugh)

Oprah: We had a lot of this. (points to the glass of champagne, Jen and the crowd laughs and applauds) We had a lot of this. We were doing friends meeting friends. But what I felt from your girls was such a bond. (Jen nods) I thought that was so... It was like you were all like sisters and you know, I had this guest house and everybody had their own bedrooms. And like about one o'clock in the morning I called them to make sure Jen was alright and they were all in the same bed. (audience and Jen laughs, Oprah pulls a face) I go this: Real friends. (audience laughs)

Jennifer: Yes. But we eventually went to our own bed. That was not...

Oprah: "We're all just in the bed, we're talking." But that must have been... must have been really helpful during... trying times.

Jennifer: Yes, during trying times. You know what... they're all... (kind of speechless) I don't even know how to explain what... to have girlfriends like that. That are your sisters and your mothers and your goobers and your mentors and your ... you know. And I ... they kind of just... gather around. They hear the call and they're (makes a sound with her fingers) right there. It's sort of... and I treasure it. They're... they are fantastic and they are fuuun. (short pause) And crazy.

Oprah: Oh, they're fun and crazy. (audience laughs because of "crazy") Okay. The response that we got from the audience here... everybody was just, when your picture came up, so happy to see you and I know everybody's watching and going, "She looks gooood." (audience applauds and Jen looks a tiny bit embarrassed) It's great. And I want to know that you're doing well.

Jennifer: You wanna know if I'm doing well? (chuckles) I'm doing soo well. I'm doing soo well. (audience applauds) Yeah, you know... I mean, come on, look what we have, look at what's happening in the world and other places and look what we have. Come on, this is great.

Oprah: It's great. (audience applauds) Well, one of the things I loved about the Vanity Fair article was that you said you were not going to be defined by this divorce and I thought that... I just went: Yes! Because so many people get stuck wherever they were in their lives and they never move on.

Jennifer: Right, they can't move through it. Well, you know... and it's also the media won't move on, so it's sort of hard and... and energetically you have that coming at you and you have moved on and you're sort of just wanna say, "Come on, people. Turn a page!"

Oprah: Turn a page. (audience applauds)

Jennifer: It's time. And you know... and the true thing is this isn't all of us. This isn't all of what we are: a divorce. Because you were sort of held up in this light of, you know... whatever you would call that.�

Oprah: I'm gonna tell you what I think it is. People were obsessed about your marriage and then the divorce. I think it's because you guys represented the picture on the wedding cake. Don't you think that? They were the picture... they were the couple on the wedding cake. And so... if this doesn't work out, then you're thinking, "Oh Lord, I'm in trouble." (audience laughs) Really. I think it is this kind of association. What do you think it is?

Jennifer: We... well, it is that. And it's created so totally by the media.

Oprah: Yes. Because all you see is the red carpet. And you don't see people in their lives, living their lives and doing the things that people do.

Jennifer: Yeah, it's not real. It's not real. You're human beings having a human experience and there's nothing different except that you're exposed to the world as a public person but your personal life, your personal feelings, your heart, your success, your pain, your everything is the same that everybody else walks through.�

Oprah: Yeah. And I always say this when it's on... you know it's big when you're on the CNN crawl and then it's on this headline news... It's on the crawl (Jennifer starts laughing) I was on the crawl a couple of times this summer but then you make the headline news, it's really (makes face) gone over the top.

Jennifer: Yeah.

Oprah: Yeah, we'll be right back. Coming up, is Jennifer dating? Well, I'm gonna ask her when we come back. And later, this is the first time I'll tell you what happened to me at Hermes in Paris. (commercial break)

Oprah: And so, I know you were hear this summer (Jennifer smiles) That's how we hooked up, "cause Jen was here in Chicago this summer doing...

Jennifer: Yes, my favorite new city. (audience applauds) I was. I was doing a movie called The Break Up (laughs and audience joins her)

Oprah: With Vince Vaughn.

Jennifer: With Vince Vaughn and (audience applauds again) Yes. Absolutely. And it was just fantastic.

Oprah: Now, you know I don't believe all the crap I read but... (audience chuckles) I have to ask you. People magazine said that you and Vince Vaughn were straight making out.

Jennifer: Oh. Oprah! You can't believe those tabloid magazines, my friend.

Oprah: Let me ask you this: Are you ready to start the whole dating thing again?

Jennifer: (immediately) Yeah!

Oprah: You are. (audience cheers and laughs when Jennifer checks her watch) And I know, you and I both believe that you call things into your life. And that things happen as they should when you're ready for it.

Jennifer: That's right.

Oprah: What would be your big lesson from this whole...?

Jennifer: This whole thing? Besides wanting more publicity? (audience laughs) I just felt I was not getting enough publicity. (audience laughs) Ehm... you know, I think there's probably so many reasons but, you know... the other day, I was doing yoga and, with my girlfriend, and we were ... we finished and we were just sort of stretching. And I looked over to her and I said, "You know what, I have to say, I'm feeling a feeling I have... I don't know if I've ever actually felt before. And that is that "I don't want to be anywhere other than where I am right now, sitting across from you."

Oprah: Wow. (audience cheers, applauds, etc.)

Jennifer: And that is... you know, I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past or I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future. Or something that was just... you know, it's ... it was a feeling of total peace. And, er... I loved that.

Oprah: How did you get there? Cause you've had to have shed some tears. You've had to have had some moments where you where like, Oh my God.

Jennifer: Oh, sure. Me, not shed a tear? Come on. Although I did not burst into tears at the opening of that article, by the way. I'll just say that. But anyway, ...

Oprah: So you shed some tears.

Jennifer: I shed some tears but meaning you know, it was... it's sort of that... living in the moment, living in the now, as they say in all the self-help books. If I had a dollar for every book that was sent my way, I could have probably paid for this studio. (audience laughs)

Oprah: Well, you really needed two dollars for that.

Jennifer: Two dollars for every book? (audience laughs)

Oprah: Two dollars for every book.

Jennifer: Two dollars, yeah.

Oprah: Yeah, but you can read the books...

Jennifer: You can read them and sort of intellectualize it but the truth is that you sit there, going, "Well, how do I do that?' You know, you get frustrated and then you get down on yourself "cause you're not there yet. And then you just realize one day that it's happened. It's collected and it's... you sell your memory and that's... and then one day you're sitting there with your friend, doing yoga and you go, "I get it! I get it! It's here.'

Oprah: Do you feel like, "I'm wondering if it's not impossible when...' (is cut off by Jennifer)

Jennifer: (raises her glass of champagne) If I get drunk, this is not my fault. (takes a sip while audience laughs)

Oprah: I wonder if it's not impossible when you're in a relationship that is so high-profile, not to, in some ways, lose yourself in that. Did you? Did you lose yourself?

Jennifer: Yeah, sure. I mean, come on. It's sort of like, because it's so big and it's so much information... it's almost like you're trying to navigate through all of it. Through the truth, through the bold, through the stuff that's mean. Everything that you kind of... you do, I don't know when it happened but you just kind of go, "Jeez, where do I begin and that stops?' But... yeah, you know, it's not easy.

Oprah: I know the paparazzi... Listen, I've been at my house... I live in California, part of the time and I have never had choppers and people at the gate and I'm like, "Did someone follow you here?' I'm like, "I have been living here in peace all this time and now you show up and I got the helicopters going around the house and...' (audience and Jennifer laugh)

Jennifer: I know. They ruin the...

Oprah: We're all sitting outside of the house and first I'm like, "Oh, no. That's just a chopper.' Going around in a circle, going around in another circle, going around in another circle. (audience laughs) How does it make you feel to have your every move tracked like that? I mean, I'm all for taking pictures, you're a public person, that's okay, I get that. But, you know, we were at a private residence and (makes helicopter noises)

Jennifer: Yeah, they don't...

Oprah: And we're just outside, trying to have a little lunch.

Jennifer: And what are they gonna get besides pictures of the top of your trees?

Oprah: The top of the trees, yeah.

Jennifer: It's just like... They don't know any better.

Oprah: Have you been able to make peace with that, though?

Jennifer: I am getting to a place where I am... "cause I think the old saying, "What you resist, persists.' I think that at a certain point over the summer I went... (stops because she realizes she can't say it on TV) Oh, I can't say any of that but, you know... oh, forget it. You know, I just...

Oprah: Shazam.

Jennifer: Shazam... (audience laughs) It don't matter. And so... there's the days, of course, when I don't want it and I'm just not in the mood. But it'll die down eventually. And I have also come to some peace with it. It's like, "So, how many pictures are they gonna get of you walking down the beach? That's gotta get boring.'

Oprah: Yeah. We'll be right back. Coming up, what is Jennifer most looking forward to as she moves on? We're gonna ask her.

(commercial break)

Oprah: What are you most looking forward to as you move forward with your life? What are you most looking forward to?

Jennifer: I would have to say the unknown. I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening. I like kind of sitting back and not knowing.

Oprah: And you know what I think? One of the most hurtful things was all the stuff of you not wanting to have babies. You do want babies, don't you?

Jennifer: Do I wanna have babies? Yes, I do. (changes her position) Can I sit like this? Is this appropriate?

Oprah: Yes.

Jennifer: (back to the topic) Yes, I do. I do, I always have.

Oprah: Do you want lots of babies? Two babies, one baby?

Jennifer: Well, (pauses which makes the audience laugh) I don't know yet. That's part of the unknown.

Oprah: Yes. So Jennifer has been a very busy girl. She has four new movies coming out. (audience applauds for quite a long time, so Jennifer looks through the audience and waves to those who've only seen her from behind) Four. She has Derailed in November and Rumor Has It with Kevin Costner on Christmas Day. The Break Up with Vince Vaughn in February and Friends with Money, next April. (Jennifer nods) So, are you gonna take a break soon? I mean, that's a lot of consistent working.�

Jennifer: That's a lot of press. But yeah. I mean I consider this... that's only little periods of time you do the publicity for that stuff, so I'm on a break now.

Oprah: In Derailed... this is so interesting. I was watching the movie the other night. And I'm watching the movie she's in and I was watching it and was like, "I cannot watch it anymore.'

Jennifer: It's an intense thriller.

Oprah: It's a Jennifer like you've never seen her before. And we are sitting there, watching and I'm going, "I don't like psychological thrillers.' (audience laughs) And at some point I'm going, "Somebody is gonna tell me what's gonna happen now.' (Jennifer laughs) So, when we watching this all together and (name of her friend) goes: Is he a good kisser?

Jennifer: Yes.

Oprah: He was a good kisser?

Jennifer: Yes!

Oprah: That looked like a good kiss. (Jennifer laughs) It looked like a good kiss.

Jennifer: Yes.

Oprah: So, what would people be most surprised to hear about you, do you think?

Jennifer: I don't sleep.

Oprah: That's right. Why?

Jennifer: I don't know. I think I've got to much to... I'm planning a lot. In a weird, weird way, like... it's sleep where I wake up and go, "Oh God, the sun is gonna come up soon. That means I get to have a cup of coffee and then read the paper. That'll be fun.' (audience and Oprah laugh) And you know, I just kind of... I've decorated a room in my mind or...

Oprah: What's it like, living alone? How does that feel? Did it take some getting adjusting to?

Jennifer: Of course, a little bit. But now it's pretty fantastic. I mean in a way where you don't have to, you know... you can do whatever you want to do... well, not that you couldn't do whatever you wanted to before but you know... it's just different.

Oprah: Do you feel peaceful?

Jennifer: Yes.

Oprah: You do. So, it's you and Norm.

Jennifer: Me and Norm.

Oprah: The dog.

Jennifer: The dog.

Oprah: What's your favorite time of the day?

Jennifer: Sunset.

Oprah: You like the sunset.

Jennifer: I love the sunset. My favorite time of the day. I have a photo album from the last house I've lived in and it's the most boring photo album because all it has is ten years of sunset. (audience and Jennifer laugh)

Oprah: And what's your favorite pick-out food?

Jennifer: Mexican.

Oprah: Mexican?

Jennifer: Oh, yeah! (audience cheers)

Oprah: What's your favorite party drink?

Jennifer: A dirty martini. Love a dirty martini.

Oprah: And do you make them? Are you good at making them?

Jennifer: Oh, I'm the best at making a dirty martini.

Oprah: (to audience) Okay, we're having a dirty martini weekend! (audience cheers and Jennifer laughs) Thanks Jennifer. We'll be right back.