Whoopsie Goldberg! Outspoken View host's history of controversy

sparked international fury on Monday by claiming that the Holocaust ‘was not about race’ because it involved ‘two groups of white people’ – but it is far from the first time the 66-year-old co-host of The View has courted controversy. 

Goldberg, who began her career as a standup comedian and in avant-garde theater troupes, has had a history of supporting wife-beaters, race-baiters and even a serial rapist.

Yet she remains entrenched as one of the co-hosts of the popular daytime show because her unfiltered outbursts are often must-watch TV.

On Monday, she made some of her most outrageous comments yet during a panel discussion with her View co-hosts over a Tennessee school board banning Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus. 

The book by Art Spiegelman about Nazi atrocities faced by his parents has been an ‘anchor text’ in the curriculum and is used by schools all around the country. 

‘Let’s be truthful about it,’ she said. 

‘The Holocaust isn’t about race. If you have any inquiries regarding the place and how to use สล็อต PG, you can make contact with us at our own web-page. It’s not about race. It’s not about race. It’s not about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. That’s what it’s about.

On Monday night, she issued a half-hearted apology for her Holocaust remarks, saying she was ‘sorry for the hurt I have caused’ but doubled down and insisted race is only about skin color and the Nazis ‘had to do the work’ to find out who was Jewish.

During an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert after her comments on The View about the Holocaust caused furious international outcry, Goldberg, 66, said she understood why she had angered people. But she didn’t stop there, and instead tried to explain why she thought the killing of six million Jews by the Nazis was not about race because Jews are white. 

‘When you talk about being a racist, you can’t call this racism,’ she said. ‘This was evil. This wasn’t based on skin. You couldn’t tell who was Jewish. You had to delve deeply and figure it out. My point is: they had to do the work. 

‘If the Klan is coming down the street and I’m standing with a Jewish friend, I’m going to run, but if my friend decides not to run, they’ll get passed by most times because you can’t tell who is Jewish. You don’t know.’ 

In another part of the interview Goldberg said the Nazis lied, and their targeting of Jews was not about race.

‘They had issues with ethnicity, not with race, because most of the Nazis were white people and most of the people they were attacking were white people, so to me, I’m thinking “how can you say it’s about race when you are fighting this other?”‘

The Academy Award winner and one of only 16 people to have won an ‘EGOT’ – an , , Oscar and Tony – has remained resolutely controversial throughout her checkered career.  

‘I know he’s not a racist’: Whoopie defends her ‘friend’ Mel Gibson after he tells his then girlfriends he hopes she gets raped by a ‘pack of n****s’

In July 2010, Goldberg defended Mel Gibson after a furious conversation between him and ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva was published. 

Gibson tells his Russian girlfriend, mother of his daughter Lucia: ‘You look like a f****** pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n******, it will be your fault.’  

Goldberg defended him. 

‘I know Mel, and I know he’s not a racist,’ she said. 

‘I have had a long friendship with Mel. You can say he’s being a bonehead, but I can’t sit and say that he’s a racist having spent time with him in my house with my kids.’

Goldberg was quick to add, however, that she does not condone his actions.

‘I don’t like what he’s done,’ she said. ‘Make no mistake.’

When co-host Joy Behar asked Goldberg if she thought Gibson was anti-Semitic, she replied, ‘I think he’s an a******,’ quickly covering her mouth before the full word escaped her lips.

View co-host says men have ‘every right’ to hit a woman if she hits them first as she defends NFL star Ray Rice who battered his wife 

In 2014, she twice sprung to the defense of male celebrities involved in violent confrontations with women.

First she said that Jay-Z, who was attacked by Beyoncé’s sister Solange Knowles in an elevator at The Standard Hotel, would have been justified in hitting her back. 

Goldberg told The View in May 2014 that a man has ‘every right’ to hit a woman in some circumstances. Jaz-Z refrained from any attack.

‘I think Solange was quite ready for him to do whatever he was going to do,’ Goldberg said. 

‘This is the thing: If anybody hits you, you have the right – I know that many people are raised in a different way – but if a woman hits you, to me, you have the right to hit her back,’ she said.

Barbara Walters then inquired if Goldberg believed that it was acceptable for a man to hit a woman, to which Goldberg replied that ‘if I slap a man, he has every right to slap me back’.

She then defended Ray Rice – an NFL star who battered his wife and never played another down – noting that she admitted she hit him first.

‘If you make the choice, as a woman who is 4-foot-3, and you decide to hit a guy who is 6-foot-tall, and you’re the last thing he wants to deal with that day and he hits you back, you cannot be surprised,’ Goldberg said.

‘I know I’m going to catch a lot of hell, and I don’t care. 

‘But you have to teach women, do not live with this idea that men have this chivalry thing still with them, don’t assume that that is still in place.’

Whoopi leaps to the defense of her Hollywood pal and accused serial rapist Bill Cosby long after most abandoned him amid flurry of accusations  

The floodgates of allegations opened in November 2014, but Goldberg defended him resolutely until July 2015.

‘He has not been proven a rapist,’ she insisted in early July 2015. 

‘It’s my opinion, and the American courts agree with me because still he has not been taken to jail or tried on anything. So back off me!’ 

Several weeks later, she finally changed her tune.

‘I gotta say, all of the information that’s out there kinda points to ‘guilt’,’ she concluded.

Sister Act star doesn’t work for five years after crude joke at DNC where she compares then-President George W. Bush to pubic hair 

Perhaps the thrice-married actress’s most damaging moment came when she was invited to speak at the Democratic National Convention, in 2004, and made a crude joke about then-Republican President George W. Bush.

‘I love Bush, but somebody’s giving Bush a bad name,’ Goldberg told the audience. 

We should keep Bush where he belongs,’ she said, gesturing at her genitals, ‘and not in the White House.’  

Goldberg was condemned for her remarks, and lost a lucrative contract with Slim Fast.

She said at the time she was taken aback by the outrage. 

‘I’ve done material on every president in the past 20 years, from Reagan to Carter, from Clinton to Bush. It seems now that people from the other side are using this to further their own agenda,’ she said.

The Manhattan-born performer found herself cast into the wilderness after her comments, and has since said she didn’t work for five years.

‘For a good three years, I couldn’t even get arrested,’ she told  in 2019. 

‘Eventually I was lucky enough to get a radio show, and then Barbara Walters asked if I would consider doing ‘The View.”

Goldberg officially joined the show in August 2007, taking the slot vacated by Rosie O’Donnell.

Whoopi’s infamous roast by then-boyfriend Ted Danson where he repeatedly used the n-word and joked about racially mixed kids 

In 1993, she was roasted by her then-boyfriend Ted Danson at the Friar’s Club.

Goldberg and Danson collaborated on the jokes, and Danson appeared on stage in blackface with his lips painted white, proceeding to make graphic jokes about Goldberg’s anatomy and repeatedly used the n-word.

Attendees were horrified and then-New York City Mayor David Dinkins – the first black mayor of the city – said he was ’embarrassed for Whoopi and the audience and felt a tremendous sense of relief when it was over.’

Talk show host Montel Williams stormed off seven minutes into Danson’s monologue and left with his visibly upset wife.

‘When Ted made the jokes about the racially mixed kids, and everyone knows my wife is white and just gave birth to our child, I could see my wife start to cry,’ Williams told The New York Daily News. 

‘If that’s what Whoopi and Ted find funny in their bedroom, it’s not funny to the outside world.’

Williams said he planned to send roses and a note of apology to all the black women sitting on the dais with him for what he said was like ‘a meeting of the Klan.’

Goldberg was unrepentant, declaring before the shocked crowd: ‘I don’t care if you don’t like it. I do!’ 

Later, she said she resented the criticism from people who didn’t even know her.

‘If they knew me, they would know that Whoopi has never been about political correctness,’ she said.  

Goldberg also engaged in fiery feuds with her co-stars and guests on The View.

In July 2018, Goldberg and Judge Jeanine Pirro had an astonishing screaming match live on air, after Pirro appeared to suggest Goldberg suffered from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome.’ 

Goldberg angrily replied: ‘Listen, I don’t have ‘Trump Derangement’ — let me tell you what I have. 

‘I’m tired of people starting a conversation with ‘Mexicans are liars and rapists.’

‘Listen, I’m 62 years old. There have been a lot of people in office that I didn’t agree with, but I have never, ever seen anything like this. 

‘I’ve never seen anybody whip up such hate. I’ve never seen anybody be so dismissive. And clearly you don’t watch the show, so you don’t know that I don’t suffer from that. 

‘What I suffer from is the inability to figure out how to fix this.’

Goldberg also famously clashed with Meghan McCain, DailyMail.com columnist who was a co-host from 2017-2021.

When McCain left the show, she accused Goldberg of creating a ‘toxic’ work environment.

Goldberg shrugged off her remarks. 

‘Alright,’ she said. ‘You know, I’m trying to get my leg and my hip right,’ pointing to her cane.

‘I don’t have time to think about anything but myself.’