While kicking off Wednesday’s show of ‘The View,’ fans were thrilled to see all the hosts come out on stage. However, there was one guest who wasn’t so thrilled about seeing Whoopi Goldberg.
As Goldberg walked to the desk to take her seat, a group of women in the front row started shouting at her. The actress heard someone call her a “broad,” and she was quick to confront that person. “Did you just call me an old broad?!”
Co-host Joy Behar wondered if they said it as in “you look good for an old broad. Goldberg said the lady may have shouted, “Yo, broad.” Now, Goldberg didn’t seem too bothered by the comment. Instead, she tried to spin it, telling guests “It’s Wednesday and I am an old broad and happy about it,” said Whoopi.
Co-host Sunny Hostin also added, “Because what do you always say, Whoopi? ‘What’s the alternative?'” “The alternative is not attractive to any of us,” added Goldberg. “We all want to be old broads and old dudes!”
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While most people are Whoopi Goldberg fans, she did rub people the wrong way last year after she made “offensive comments” while discussing the Holocaust. As we previously reported, Whoopi Goldberg was in the middle of discussing the Tennessee school board’s banning of “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Nazi death camps during World War II. She said the Holocaust was “not about race … it’s about man’s inhumanity to other man.”
Following backlash, she apologized. She said at the time, “I said the Holocaust “is not about race but about man’s inhumanity to man.” I should have said it is about both,” she wrote on Twitter. “As Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League shared, “The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race.” I stand corrected.” She added: “The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused.”
Goldberg was suspended for two weeks as co-host of “The View.” She issued another apology when she returned to the show.
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In December, Goldberg once again courted controversy following her recent interview with The Sunday Times. Goldberg said some Jewish people themselves are divided over whether they are a race or a religion. She apologized again after her latest remarks reignited a controversy that initially got her suspended from “The View.”
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