Sitting with Oprah Winfrey for 2020 Vision: Your Life, the CBS News journalist reveals 'the kindness of strangers,' including Katie and Ivanka Trump, that helped her get through the turmoil.

AceShowbiz - Katie Holmes has made Gayle King's day a better one with a simple favor. The former "Dawson's Creek" star was praised by the "CBS This Morning" host for consoling her with a box of cupcakes as the latter dealt with backlash and death threats for bringing up Kobe Bryant's sexual assault trial after his tragic passing.

Revealing Holmes' sweet gesture was King herself during an appearance on Oprah Winfrey's 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour in Denver. "I'd been away, I came home, and on my kitchen counter was a box of cupcakes - I love cupcakes," she recalled. "There was a box of cupcakes with a note, and it said: 'Katie and Suri were thinking about you.' "

"Now, I didn't even know Katie Holmes even knew where I lived, which means she had to find out, and that they came and they dropped it off," the 65-year-old continued. "I had to find somebody to get her email just so I could say, 'Thank you so much for doing that.' " She added that the cupcakes are "the kindness of strangers that I will never forget during that time."

Apparently, Holmes was not the only one surprising King with kindness. During the talk, King revealed that Donald Trump's daughter has also reached out to her. "Ivanka Trump, it's not like I'm hanging out at The White House, but Ivanka Trump reached out to me to say, 'Are you OK? I'm sorry that this is happening to you,' " she spilled. "I mean, I have to say I was very touched by that."

When asked if she has moved on, King told Winfrey, "I have moved on. Is there a scab? Yeah. But I have moved on, I put on my game face and my big girl pants...because I've never lost sight of who I was, what I believe I am, and my intention." She added, "It certainly was a learning curve and it was very painful. But I think sometimes you have to go through that."

On what she learned from the controversy, King further stated, "I think we can disagree politically, we can disagree socially...but I think humanity should prevail always." She elaborated her statement, "We can disagree, and you can be mad at me, but you can't speak to me the way that I was spoken to, and threatened."

King found herself under fire after she brought up Bryant's 2003 rape allegations during an interview with former WNBA star Lisa Leslie. Rappers Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent were among those taking issue with her inquiry. In February, she responded to the controversy through an Instagram video in which she stated, "Unbeknownst to me, my network put up a clip from a very wide-ranging interview - totally taken out of context - and when you see it that way, it's very jarring."

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