Monday marked the return of Whoopi Goldberg to “The View” after serving a two-week suspension, following her comments regarding the Holocaust where she stated that it wasn’t about race.
To kick off the show, Goldberg addressed the elephant in the room, which was her remarks that resulted in the two-week suspension.
“I gotta tell you there’s something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this because we are ‘The View’ and this is what we do. And sometimes we don’t do it as elegantly as we could,” Goldberg said. “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, and I’m telling you people reached out from places that made me go, ‘Wait, wait, what? Really?’ And it was amazing. And I listened to everything everybody had to say. And I was very grateful.”
Goldberg added that the show would not shy away from controversial topics despite being suspended.
“I hope it keeps all the important conversations happening because we’re going to keep having tough conversations. And in part, because this is what we’ve been hired to do,” Goldberg said.
“And it’s not always pretty, as I said, and it’s not always as other people would like to hear. But 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.”
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