Whoopi Goldberg's "View" producer said "we pay you" for controversial comments
The host shared a letter she received from the late Bill Geddie after her suspension.
In February 2022, Whoopi Goldberg was found in hot water after making offensive comments on the holocaust on View . The actor and animator of talk show apologized and was suspended from the talk show for two weeks. Now Goldberg has shared more than what happened behind the scenes, including the support it has received from an executive producer. Monday July 24 episode of View , Goldberg and his co-animators remembered Bill Geddie , who co-created the series with Barbara Walters And died on July 20 at 68. Ghost Star revealed that Geddie had supported him after last year's scandal, saying: "We pay you to do so." Continue reading to learn more.
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Geddie handed her hand in the middle of the reaction.
As indicated by deciding, in the episode on Monday, the See Panel - Joined by the old host Sherri Shepherd - talked about the involvement of Geddie in the show and their memories of him. Goldberg spoke that Geddie expressed her support for her when she was suspended from the show.
"I was asked to stay away for a week or two. They told me to take a break," said Goldberg. "Bill wrote to me and said to me, 'You know, this is the nature of the show. This is why we have brought you - we pay you. We pay you to do it, we pay you to give your opinion. Everyone will not like him. But never think that you did something that you should not have done because that is what we do to View . '"
Goldberg was criticized for a comment from the Holocaust.
While Goldberg did not rejection the comment that landed in hot water during the episode on Monday, she was suspended after a recording in February 2022. At that time, the hosts discussed the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman be prohibited by a Tennessee school board. The book, which is considered a classic, concerns the author's father, a survivor of the holocaust. As indicated by Variety ,, Goldberg said during the conversation , "Let us be honest on this subject because [the Holocaust] does not concern the race. It is not a question of race. It is the inhumanity of man towards man."
Immediately, the criticism of the words of Goldberg came, in particular of the Jewish organizations specifying that the holocaust concerned the race and that the opposite is furniture and dangerous.
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She apologized publicly and was suspended.
Goldberg apologized on social networks the same day as the episode was broadcast. And in the episode broadcast the next day, she apologized again. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"So yesterday in our show, I misused myself," she said (via Variety ). "I said that the Holocaust did not concern the race and that it was rather the inhumanity of man towards man. But it is indeed a race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews as a lower race. Now, the words are important and mine are no exception. I regret my comments as I said and I am always corrected. . "
As CBS News reported, President ABC News Kim Godwin announced later that Goldberg would be out of the show for two weeks For his "badly and hurtful comments". Godwin added in a statement: "While Whoopi apologized, I asked him to take the time to think and inquire about the impact of his comments."
Goldberg again made the headlines in December 2022 when She approached her comments In an interview and, for some, he seemed to double. She then apologized again and said that she was trying to explain what she thought at the time, according to Variety .
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Goldberg said Geddie had also spoken for her in the past.
According to decide, Goldberg also declared during the commemoration of Geddie's panelists that the producer had offered his support when she made a controversial comment from the start of her career on her career View . The winner of an Oscar joined the show in 2007.
"My first week started with me having a conversation with you Michael Vick Said Goldberg. At the time, the football player had just pleaded guilty to federal accusations Linked to a dog fighting ring. As Reuters reported, Goldberg suggested that Vick Participating in dog fights was "part of his cultural education" because he was from the South.
"[The public said]:" Burn so wide. Burn this large, remove "" said Goldberg on the new episode. "Whenever I intervened, [Geddie said]:" This is the beauty of the show. Everyone has an opinion and that's why we do it. ""
Shepherd shared what Geddie told him for a controversial moment.
Goldberg was not the only one to say that Geddie had defended him after the comments of pregnancy. On an episode of 2007 of View , Shepherd said that she did not believe in evolution and I did not know if the earth is round or flat , because she "never thought of it". Shepherd explained later elsewhere that she knows that the earth is round.
As indicated by Deadline, Shepherd said on Monday That she told Geddie that she wanted to clarify on the show that she knows that the earth is not flat. "Bill said:" No! This is notes, baby! "" Said the host. She also said he had said to her, "Sherri, if we apologize for all that would be called The excuse show . It's called View. ""
