Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Mar 27, 2019

If you missed it, OPRAH WINFREY has a new book out. Called "The Path Made Clear," it's a series of interviews with celebrities in which Oprah uses to find a deeper, life message inside.
In one interview with LeBRON JAMES, he says he loses his rhythm on the court when he starts "playing for others rather than playing for myself." Oprah's takeaway: "This is a universal truth. We fall off course the minute our intention shifts from following our hearts to responding to what we think others believe. All of a sudden, life becomes complicated...the goal is to get back to living for yourself."

Preggo: ALANIS MORISETTE. "So much NEWness," she announced on her Instagram account with a picture of her and her baby bump. It'll be her third child with her hubby, rapper MARIO MARIO TREADWAY, AKA SoulEye.

Also on Instagram: JUSTIN BIEBER says he taking a break from music. With the time off, he reportedly wants to "focus on repairing some of the deep rooted issues" he has so he doesn't "fall apart," and says he'll try to work on his marriage to HAILEY BALDWIN and to be the father he wants to be. No word on whether this means he and Hailey are expecting a baby, however.

Correction: Turns out JUSSIE SMOLLETT only had to fork over $10,000 --or just 10-percent of the $100,000 bond-- in the deal which freed him from jail. Sources say the money was in payment for the investigation into the charges of filing a false police report over his alleged staging of that Jan 29 hate attack he reported.
The big question is "why"... and several sources say the pair of brothers he allegedly hired to attack him changed their story and said they did not attack Jussie, leaving the prosecution with no way to prove that Jussie paid them to stage the attack.