The actress and TV personality, who got a two-week suspension following her comments about the Holocaust, reportedly is 'telling people she's going to quit' the ABC daytime talk show.
- Feb 3, 2022
AceShowbiz - Whoopi Goldberg found it hard to get suspended from "The View" over her comments about the Holocaust. Feeling "humiliated" after getting disciplined by ABC executives, the co-host reportedly threatened to quit the daytime talk show.
"She feels ABC executives mishandled this," a source first sharred to the New York Post. "She followed their playbook. She went on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' and then apologized again on 'The View' the next day."
"Her ego has been hurt and she's telling people she's going to quit," the inside source further claimed. "Suspension from 'The View' is like getting suspended from Bravo. The bar is very low."
ABC News president Kim Godwin announced Whoopi's suspension on Tuesday, February 1. "Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments," Kim said in a statement.
"While Whoopi has apologized, I've asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," Kim continued. "The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities."
This came after Whoopi said in the Monday episode of "The View" that "the Holocaust isn't about race... It's about man's inhumanity to man. That's what it's about." Although her co-hosts like Joy Behar and Anna Navarro disagreed with her opinion, she doubled down on her statement.
However, the "Sister Act" actress already apologized twice. "On today's show, I said the Holocaust 'is not about race, but about man's inhumanity to man.' I should have said it is about both," she tweeted on Monday night. "The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I'm sorry for the hurt I have caused."
On the next day, Whoopi said on "The View", "Yesterday on our show, I misspoke. I tweeted about it last night but I want you to hear it from me directly." She added, "I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined, because my words upset so many people, which was never my intention."
"I understand why now, and for that I am deeply, deeply grateful because the information I got was really helpful, and it helped me understand some different things," she went on noting. "I said the Holocaust wasn't about race and was instead about man's inhumanity to man... But it is indeed about race because Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be an inferior race."
"Now, words matter and mine are no exception. I regret my comments, as I said, and I stand corrected," the 66-year-old emphasized. "I also stand with the Jewish people as they know and y'all know, because I've always done that."
