The Truth Behind Stevie Wonder’s Blindness

Published on 06/03/2021
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Wonder explained to Oprah during the 2004 interviewer after being asked whether he could remember colors or not that he had a more conceptual understanding of color. Oprah had put the question to Wonder as she knew that he had at one stage in his life been able to see. This question then prompted a deeper discussion of Wonder’s senses, and how he had come to lose his sight in the first place. What had happened to that little child?

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Wonder said that whenever someone described a color to him, then he would understand what they were speaking about in the way that he knew how. He said that although he had once been able to see, it was only for a very short time following his birth. Oprah then took the question further by asking if it was true that he had been administered far too much oxygen as a baby when he was hooked up to an incubator.

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