Some shocking news about The View has gone viral this week.
Now, we all know that The View is partial to some controversy.
The women on the show are known for their strong opinions and openness.
But, this year it has been a lot more serious than usual.
As we know, Whoopi Goldberg caused a lot of controversy on the show after sharing her opinion on the Holocaust.
During the show’s Hot Topics discussion back in January, the panel was discussing the graphic novel Maus and how it was recently banned from a Tennessee school district…
It’s the story of author Art Spiegelman’s father and his account of being imprisoned in a concentration camp.
“Let’s be truthful about it — because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race,” she said.
“It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about,” as both groups were white.
Totally missing the point.
This prompted her co-hosts to question her comments, adding that the Nazi’s referred to Aryans as “the master race.”
However, Goldberg responded: “These are 2 white groups of people. You’re missing the point,” Goldberg added. “The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other. It’s a problem. It doesn’t matter if you’re Black or white, ’cause Blacks, whites, Jews, everybody eats [the] other.”
After her worryingly uneducated remarks went viral, Goldberg went on to apologize for any “hurt” she caused…
But, it simply wasn’t enough for some viewers as they called for her to be removed from the show.
And it seems that ABC heard their comments…
ABC News President Kim Godwin said in a statement that Goldberg was suspended from The View for 2 weeks over her comments.
“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments. While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments,” she said.
Adding: “The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family, and communities.”
A decision that Whoopi Goldberg appeared to be unhappy with as she reportedly threatened to quit the show amid the suspension.
According to the New York Post, Goldberg opened up to someone, who told the news outlet how she’s feeling about the situation.
“She feels ABC executives mishandled this. She followed their playbook. She went on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and then apologized again on The View the next day,” they said.
“She’s telling people she’s going to quit.”
“Suspension from The View is like getting suspended from Bravo. The bar is very low,” they finished.
But, after her 2 weeks suspension, Goldberg returned to the show.
“Hello hello hello, welcome to The View, and yes, I’m back,” she began saying on the show.
Her colleagues then said that they’d missed her, for Goldberg to say: “I’ve missed you all, too. I’ve got to 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,” she continued on.
She then said lightheartedly that sometimes they don’t do it as “elegantly” as they could.
And continued to say: “It’s 5 minutes to get in important information about topics, and that’s what we try to do every day, and I want to thank everybody who reached out while I was away and I’m telling you people reached out from places that made me go ‘wait wait, what? Really? OK.’
“And it was amazing. I listened to everything that everybody had to say and I was very grateful. I hope it keeps all of the important conversations happening because we’re going to keep having tough conversations.
“It’s not always pretty as I said, 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,” she said.
“They’re important to us as a nation,” she continued explaining. “And to us more so as a human entity,” she finished.
It has now been several weeks since Goldberg’s return, and everything on The View appeared to be going smoothly.
Until Goldberg and co-hosts, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin, found themselves having to give Joy Behar a helping hand after she fell and face-planted the stage…
Behar was walking onstage at the start of the live show when she fell and face-planted the floor earlier this year.
The then seventy-nine-year-old comedian was approaching her seat when she took a tumble and it was caught on camera.
Fortunately, her co-hosts were there to help Behar back to her seat as Goldberg blamed the chairs.
“These chairs move,” she said. “You touch it and you’re on the ground.”
Behar was able to continue the show, but not before she threatened to sue.
“Twenty-five years, that has never happened,” she said before adding: “Who do I sue? My husband is home laughing, I bet.”
Once settled into her chair, Behar clarified that she was okay and explained that she “missed the step, as usual.”
According to People, the host used the incident to spread an important message about falling which related to Bob Saget’s passing.
“The main thing, just to talk seriously, when Bob Saget fell, he died,” Behar said.
“If you hit your head, and you feel dizzy or you have blurred vision, or you feel like you want to go to sleep, go to the doctor. Because that will kill you.” Luckily Behar was ok.
And in recent news, Behar shared she’s “had s*x with a few ghosts.”
She opened up about the strange happenings during a segment about a North Texas woman who claims her house is haunted by “dirty talking” ghosts.
Goldberg initiated the discussion, showing a clip of the woman, Linda Hill, explaining that she will often hear voices in her home.
Revealing ghosts have told her she’s “lookin’ good” and that she’s even recorded one spirit saying: “Oh baby, oh baby, yeah,” and “Yeah, I like it like that.”
Behar first dismissed her comments, calling them “a s*xual hallucination,” adding, “we all have that.”
However, her opinion changed pretty quickly when co-host Sara Haines asked: “If you have s*x with a ghost, do you get pregnant?”
As the others discussed the question, Behar quietly admitted: “I’ve had s*x with a few ghosts [and] never got pregnant.”
Goldberg appeared to be the only one to catch what she said and replied: “I’m just gonna let that ride. I don’t know how many of you heard what Joy just said, but I’m gonna let it ride.”
You can watch the clip here.
Weeks after her initial comments about making out with a ghost…
Behar has stood by her claim that she had s*x with ghosts.
Her co-host, Sara Haines, mentioned Behar told her that “everyone was so smart” they didn’t need “disclaimers” before several news outlets ran with the story.
While her other co-host, Sunny Hostin, pointed out that Behar “doesn’t even believe in ghosts.”
But despite the negative response she received…
Behar wasted no time setting the record straight.
“So let me just set the record straight, OK?” she said.
“It’s all true. It’s all true. It’s all true. I have had s*x with ghosts. I just thought Casper was not a generous lover. The ménage à trois, it was almost like having s*x with myself.”
“People magazine, write another story. Go ahead,” Behar added.
And now, Behar has taken a jibe at Whoopi Goldberg on an episode of The View.
This comes as Goldberg was caught looking disinterested in the topic of conversation.
The discussion was about how women handle finances with their partners.
Whilst everyone was taking part in the conversation, Goldberg seemed like she didn’t want anything to do with what was being said.
Sunny Hostin joked that she was fed up with bills, such as her children’s ballet lessons or streaming services.
Whereas Sarah Haines said that she and her husband have joint and separate bank accounts.
Hostin, however, recognized Goldberg’s boredom and said, “Right, Whoopi?”
The cameras turned toward Goldberg, and Behar could be heard saying: “Whoopi checked out an hour ago.”
Goldberg shook off the comment, and chimed into the conversation: “If you’re married, you should always have some money that’s yours.”
She added that spouses shouldn’t have to explain how they choose to spend their personal funds.
You can see the segment of the show here.
Goldberg, who is currently single, has been married 3 times in her life.
First with Alvin Martin, who she divorced in 1979. Then in 1986, she married cinematographer David Claessen, who she divorced 2 years later. In 1994, Goldberg married once again, to actor Lyle Trachtenberg, but they called it quits a year later.
“I tried marriage, and it wasn’t for me,” Goldberg told The New York Times in 2019.
And she puts it down to societal pressures.
“One day I thought … You can’t be in a marriage because everybody’s expecting you to,” she said, describing herself as “the round peg, and marriage is the square hole.”
Adding to that, she spoke out on an episode of The View this week, telling the other co-hosts “It’s not for everybody.”
Goldberg explained that she’s married “a couple of times” because “the mores of our nation say, ‘Well, you should be married.'”
But added that she should have been told “‘unless it’s not for you.'” Goldberg revealed, “What I was doing that was wrong was not admitting to the fact that I didn’t want to be married to anybody.”
Now, it’s been a while since Goldberg got herself into controversy…
But the same themes keep popping up.
And the TV host soon once again found herself in hot water over using a slur.
Goldberg expressed some pretty uneducated opinions on The View.
Goldberg was talking about former president Donald Trump.
Saying supporters feel he got “gy*ped” in the 2020 presidential election.
“You know, when you’re a certain age, you use words that you know from when you’re a kid or you remember saying, and that’s what I did today and I shouldn’t have,” she said.
“I should have thought about it a little longer before I said it, but I didn’t, and I should have said ‘cheated’ and I used another word. And I’m really, really sorry.”
Soon after, Whoopi stumbled into hot water again.
This time for her comments about American Idol!
“You know, I’ve always thought that the beginning of the downfall of society was with, um, what’s the name of that show?” Goldberg asked, referring to American Idol.
“Once we gave people the ability to judge other people, I think we ran amuck with it,” Goldberg continued. “And it’s gone out of control.”
“They invited the public to decide who their person was,” she went on. “And I feel once we did that, it began us in a cycle which we have not — did you really just do that?”
“People watch these shows because they make them feel better,” Goldberg concluded. “I think that we, as a society, love to watch stuff to judge folks.”
Soon after, another of Whoopi Goldberg’s statements left the internet shook.
And she’s claimed she wants to take over hosting Wheel of Fortune!
Pat Sajak has announced his retirement after a whopping 41 seasons.
And when The View interviewed “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings, Whoopi made her proposition.
Joy Behar chimed in that “Whoopi wants the job.”
“I want that job,” Whoopi confirmed. “I think it would be tons of fun.”
Behar even volunteered herself and Sara Haines for the role of Vanna White.
“We’ll take turns walking back and forth, and pointing to the letters.”
Whoopi then went viral again, after she was seen storming off stage in a recent episode.
This all began after the hosts began discussing the controversial Miranda Lambert performance.
During her performance in Las Vegas, Miranda criticised concertgoers who snapped photographs of her. Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Gryphon addressed this.
Sunny said: “[I’m] going to take as many selfies as I want if I paid $757 for tickets.”
Whoopi didn’t agree, she said: “You know what? Stay home,” adding, “If you’re going to spend $750 to come to my concert, then give me the respect of watching me while I do my thing, or don’t come.”
Sunny reacted by saying that she likes to take pictures at concerts so she can remember the moments afterwards. “Turn on the television, girl.” Whoopi responded.
She then got up and stormed towards the audience: “I’m leaving y’all! I want to take a picture with this marvellous woman, who is 91. So, we’re going to do a selfie,” she said.
Getting closer to the woman, she added: “Just me and you. Will you push that button? We’ll be right back.”
Watch the viral moment here.
And this week, it’s news about the show in itself that has gone viral.
It’s been taken off air for a whole month.
The show will be returning to air in early September, following Labor Day.
Will you be tuning in?