Dave Chappelle, who stunned and disappointed many (like, was this Negro crazy?) when he went AWOL from the highest rated show on Comedy Central, bared his soul on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' Friday. He says he may return to "finish what he started" on season three of 'Chappelle's Show,' but one gets the impression that it could go either way.

"I've been like a pendulum," said the Ohio-based comedian on coming back to finish the remaining season of 'Chappelle's Show,' a series that came with a $50 million contract, critical acclaim and scores of people who may have seen him as a giant ATM.

"I wasn't crazy but it was incredibly stressful," said Chappelle, who added he felt like a prostitute most days at work. "I was deliberately being stressed. For a guy that makes money, people have an interest in controlling you."

Chappelle, who sat down with Oprah for an hour in his first televised interview since he disappeared to South Africa without telling anyone except his brother, refuted rumors that he was crazy, on drugs, or paranoid.

"I'm not on drugs, not for years. I was incredibly stressed out. Love is like a nutrient and I was deficient on Vitamin Love," said the comedian, slightly tongue-in-cheek. Further, he said: "What is a black man without his paranoia?"

He said the actual tipping point for him leaving was when he did a sketch that would have led black people to be disappointed in him. "I was doing sketches that were funny, but deliberately irresponsible."

"There was this one sketch, a pixie that would appear when racist things would happen," Chappelle recalled. "The premise is that every race has a racial complex. We used blackface as the visual personification of the n-word. What I didn't consider is how many people would watch the show, and how everything is completely subjective. There was a white guy on the set who laughed, and he laughed in such a way that I felt uncomfortable. To the point where I said, 'should I fire this person?'"

"I felt like they got me," he said. "They got me. I'm that guy."

Winfrey herself, seemed a bit concerned for Dave, and sporadically offered him bits of advice. For instance, when he said he would come back to Chappelle's show if he could make the proper work environment and also if he could contribute half his money to "the people," Winfrey seemed nervous and offered Chappelle some counsel.

She cautioned the comedian: "Be careful, you need boundaries. You're on national TV. People will be lining up at your house with sad stories."

Though Chappelle touched on everything from his sanity, to the price of fame, to his writing partner, Neal Berman ("I was pissed at him!") and his upcoming film, 'Block Party' which will be released in theaters March 3, he didn't talk about the widely circulated Chappelle Theory, which turned up on the internet in December.

Supposedly put together by an anonymous retired flack, the intricate conspiracy theory, which said that Dave feared for his life because a cabal of prominent African Americans (known as the "Dark Crusaders") including Jesse Jackson, Bill Cosby, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Johnson, and Winfrey herself, put pressure on him to discontinue the show.

"You've got to take a stand," said an unapologetic Chappelle. "I did not disrespect anybody and that's why I was upset."

Winfrey, who kept it light at times, even showing the Chappelle skit where he fathered her baby, seemed to appreciate Dave's humor. His last words to Winfrey were "As a matter of fact, Oprah, let me get your cell phone number."