Video: Paula Deen Confirms She Does Indeed Have Diabetes

In a move that few pretty much everyone saw coming, benevolent butter queen Paula Deen took to the Today show this morning to tell Al Roker that yes, she has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. But don't worry—she has a fancy new diabetes website and she's getting paid to endorse Novo Nordisk's Victoza medication, so she'll be just fine, even if she thinks talking about how much she's raking in from the deal is "tacky."

USA Today reports that Deen was first diagnosed three years ago, but "I made the choice at the time to keep it close to me, to keep it close to my chest. I felt like I had nothing to offer anybody other than the announcement. I wasn't armed with enough knowledge. I knew when it was time, it would be in God's time."

So, now that God has spoken to her, Deen doesn't care about all the haters: "I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny." And while she's trying to cut the empty calories from her diet and will try to encourage eating in moderation on-air, she's not going all Goop on us: "I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies."