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‘The View’: Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes for Using Offensive Slur

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Whoopi Goldberg said an offensive slur while on air on ‘The View.’ After the show, she took to social media to apologize and share her ignorance on the word she used.

 

The View is no stranger to on-air gaffes. As one of the most popular live shows on TV, the long-running daytime institution has had plenty of moments throughout the years that have caused conversation, for better or for worse. In March 2023, moderator and longtime co-host Whoopi Goldberg used a word on the live broadcast that has historically been used as a slur.

Whoopi Goldberg said an offensive slur on ‘The View’
As the Manhattan District Attorney seemingly prepares to indict former President Donald Trump for an alleged hush payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels in 2016, The View co-hosts weighed in on the seemingly impending indictment. Conservative co-host and former assistant to Trump, Alyssa Farah Griffin, mentioned outrage from “white MAGA bros on Twitter.”

Goldberg went on to explain what she believed many of Trump’s supporters’ thought process might be. In the process, she used a term that has its roots in stereotypes and discrimination of Romani people. “The people who still believe that he got, you know, [cheated] somehow in the [2020] election, will still believe that he cared enough about his wife to pay the…” the Soapdish star said, pausing to burp in the middle of her thought. “That was gas,” she said, continuing, “Money from his personal thing.”

After the show, The View‘s official Twitter account posted a video of Goldberg addressing the segment and the words she used.

“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,” Goldberg admitted. “I should have thought about it a little longer before I said it, but I didn’t.”

“I should have said ‘cheated,’ and I used another word,” she continued, “and I’m really, really sorry.”

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