Chong worked together with Oprah on "The Color Purple"

Jul 19, 2013 16:08 GMT  ·  By

Actress Rae Dawn Chong has attacked her once co-star turned talk-show host Oprah in a radio interview.

The recording is dated June 27, but TMZ just got ahold of it and relayed the comments made by Chong about her colleague.

She calls Oprah a "great brown-noser," detailing how she chats up people with the power to help her get ahead.

"If you're in a room with her, she'll pick the most powerful person and she'll become best friends with them," she describes.

She also picks on Oprah's physical appearance and calls her fat, comparing her to an overachiever involved in every possible school activity in high-school.

"When we worked with her ... she was that fat chick that was the ... wannabe cheerleader that was the student council president that was best friends with the principal ... she was that fat chick in school that did everything and everybody loved her. That's Oprah -- love me, love me, love me," she says.

The insults include the mention of the N-word on not one, but two separate occasions. The actress referenced the 50s and how African Americans were being treated at the time.

"She took a woman, if you look at the way she looks – 60 years ago she would have been a housekeeper, luckily. She would not have been a house [N-word], she would've been a field [N-word]," she says.

Chong mentions meeting the host after starring in "Commando." The pair worked together on "The Color Purple" in 1985.

"You gotta respect her, no matter how vile she is — 'cause ultimately she's all about Oprah and she's boring – but aside from that, you gotta kinda go, 'Hello, hats off, you have done an amazing thing. You have actually shifted the DNA of the universe'," she says.

She, however, praises Oprah for her ability to build a media empire and mentions that she had a "lovely" performance as an actress.