Whoopi Goldberg returned to The View after her two-week suspension. Goldberg was suspended from the show on Feb. 1 following her comments about the Holocaust.
The EGOT winner and talk show host thanked everyone who reached out to her while she was suspended from the show and said being on a show like The View was marvelous. She also said it was essential to have the conversations like those discussed on the live show.
“Hello, hello, hello and welcome to The View. And yes, I am back,” she said.
After Joy Behar said she missed Goldberg, the actress replied that she also missed Behar and her co-stars.
“I missed you all too,” she replied. “There’s something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this because we are ‘The View,’ and this is what we do,” said Goldberg. “Sometimes we don’t do it as elegantly as we could, but it’s five 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… It is an honor to sit at this table and be able to have these conversations because they’re important. They’re important to us as a nation, and to us more so as a human entity.”
— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) February 1, 2022
BREAKING: Whoopi Goldberg is back on #TheView after her two-week suspension from the show pic.twitter.com/Epg8clumtE
— The Chat (@LiveOnTheChat) February 14, 2022
Fans were upset Goldberg was suspended for her remarks. Her former co-star, Meghan McCain, was never suspended for her rhetoric, including when she called her then 76-year-old co-host Joy Behar a b*tch on live television as the two argued.
I didn’t watch while @WhoopiGoldberg was on that BS suspension. Instead I streamed Whoopi’s movies during @theview time slot. Glad Whoopi is back today! #TheView pic.twitter.com/7cq0Unsul5
— Gina Marie (@Kompanie) February 14, 2022
Whoopi never should’ve been suspended in the first place @WhoopiGoldberg @TheView #TheView https://t.co/AGRqz9wBEP
— Tara Dublin (@taradublinrocks) February 14, 2022
One fan noted that Joe Rogan could use the n-word with impunity, yet Goldberg was suspended for misunderstanding the race element of the Holocaust.
Why should @WhoopiGoldberg be suspended for making a single factual error without any bad intent and for which she already issued a correction???
She should not be.https://t.co/0Istrdzpst
— Grant Stern is boosted! (@grantstern) February 3, 2022
Joe Rogan saying the n word a hundred time and keeping his job is white privilege, while Whoopi Goldberg getting suspended from the View for two weeks for saying something “anti Semitic” is an example of white fragility
— Nicolussy 💅🏾 (@notashleybanks) February 12, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg got suspended immediately. Spotify keeping Joe Rogan.
And so it goes.
— Attack on, Titan. (@MightyJacYoung) February 7, 2022
Goldberg did not elaborate on her suspension but noted that the panel would continue to have tough conversations on the show.
