Whoopi Goldberg Returns To 'The View' After Suspension

Whoopi Goldberg Returns To ‘The View’ After Suspension

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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.”

Goldberg was suspended for two weeks by ABC after she insisted that the Holocaust was not about race but humanity’s crimes against humanity and white people fighting each other. The panel had been discussing a Tennessee school banning the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Maus” by Jewish author Art Spiegelman.

Goldberg later apologized for her remarks and noted that she “stood corrected” after learning that the Nazis did indeed think of Jewish people as an inferior race.

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.

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.

Goldberg did not elaborate on her suspension but noted that the panel would continue to have tough conversations on the show.