Liam Neeson has spoken out about feeling ‘uncomfortable’ while a guest on The View.
Neeson recently appeared on The View to promote his movie, Marlowe.
But it appears that the actions of those on the panel left the actor feeling anything but at ease.
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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, in recent times, it has been a lot more serious than usual.
As we know, Whoopi Goldberg caused a lot of controversy on the show last year after sharing her opinion on the Holocaust.
During the show’s Hot Topics discussion back in January 2022, the panel was discussing the graphic novel Maus and how it was 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 months since Goldberg’s return, but another scandal soon loomed.
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 then in more 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 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 then, Behar took 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 has once again found herself in hot water over comments about the Holocaust.
Goldberg expressed some pretty uneducated opinions in an interview with The Times, published on Christmas Eve.
Goldberg again pushed her opinion that the Holocaust “wasn’t originally” about race.
She said: “My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race’.”
The interviewer replied: “Nazis saw Jews as a race,” to which Goldberg responded: “Yes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it? The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?”
“It wasn’t originally. Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical.
“They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision.”
In response to her comments, the Auschwitz Memorial tweeted an excerpt of “one of the first major statements made by [Adolf] Hitler with regard to the Jewish question.”
In the short paragraph, he addressed “the dangers currently presented by Jewry to our nation.”
He referred to Jewish people as being of a different race 3 times, and many more throughout the text.
People are urging that Goldberg is fired from The View before she makes any more harmful comments.
One Twitter user wrote: “Holocaust distortion is Holocaust denial,” adding that Goldberg “must not just be suspended” as “we’ve already been there” so she “must be fired, period.”
And now, The View is in a new controversy.
But this time, it’s the whole panel under to microscope.
After they made Liam Neeson feel “uncomfortable” while appearing as a guest on the show.
Neeson appeared on the show to promote his 100th movie, Marlowe.
While on the show, Neeson was shown a clip of Joy Behar mentioning him several times, in which she said: “I would just like to have my ashes sprinkled over Liam Neeson.”
One panel member also said in front of Neeson: “Joy wants to get taken by you.”
Before Behar added: “I will find you and I will kill you.”
But it appears that the comments didn’t go down well…
Neeson opened up about the experience with Rolling Stone where he said he “wasn’t impressed.”
“I was in the dressing room drinking a cup of tea, turned the TV up, and I thought, oh, this will be great,” he began telling the outlet. “They’re talking about gun violence in America, and I agree that it’s an American problem.”
However, when Neeson’s segment started, he said it was “just all this BS with Joy [Behar] and Liam Neeson and having a crush.”
“I’ve known Whoopi for years and Joy a little bit, but I just wasn’t impressed,” he said.
“I’m uncomfortable in those situations, you know?
“One of the ladies [Sunny Hostin] is a prosecutor and we had a little chat afterwards and it was a good, intelligent conversation, but then the segment’s all about this — oof —thirteen, fourteen-year-old crush. It’s just a bit embarrassing.”
What do you think about what Neeson’s experience?