Michelle Obama opened up to Oprah about the pain of watching Donald Trump win

Michelle Obama, a beacon of light and grace in these trying times, confessed during a Dec. 19 interview that even she found it “painful” to watch parts of the 2016 election.

“You know, this—this past election was challenging for me as a—as a citizen. To watch and experience. It was painful,” Obama said in a CBS News interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The First Lady told People earlier this month that she went to bed on election night rather than stay up to watch the slow motion car crash of the results coming in.

“You kind of saw the tea leaves,” Obama told Winfrey. “So mentally, I’d already kind of digested it before I actually read it.”