Whoopi Goldberg Returns to ‘The View,’ Promises to ‘Keep Having Tough Conversations’ After Controversial Holocaust Comment
14.02.2022 - 22:13
/ usmagazine.com
Back at it. Whoopi Goldberg returned to The View on Monday, February 14, following a two-week suspension for her controversial comments about the holocaust.
“I gotta tell you there’s something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this — because we are The View and this is what we do,” the 66-year-old actress said at the top of the show, noting how much she “missed” her cohosts. “And sometimes we don’t do it as elegantly as we could. But it’s five minutes to get in important information about topics. And that’s what we try to do every day.”
The Sister Act star thanked “everybody who reach out” to her during her brief hiatus, explaining that she learned a lot from those who spoke out.
“I’m telling you, people reached out from places that made me go, ‘Wait, wait, what? Really?’ And it was amazing,” Goldberg continued. “And I listened to everything everybody had to say. And I was very grateful.”
The Ghost actress didn’t directly address her past comments, but she did point out how moved she is to have so many people interested and engaged in what the show does every week.
“I hope it keeps all the important conversations happening because we’re going to keep having tough conversations. And in part, because this is what we’ve been hired to do,” she concluded. “And it’s not always pretty, as I said, and it’s not always as other people would like to hear. But it is an honor to sit at this table and be able to have these conversations because they’re important. They’re important to us as a nation, and to us more so as a human entity.”
Goldberg sparked controversy during the January 31 episode of the talk show when the women on the panel were discussing schools that recently banned books. One institution took issue with a