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Whoopi Goldberg Returns to The View After Two-Week Suspension

"We're going to keep having the tough conversations," said Whoopi. "Because this is what we've been hired to do."
posted by Claire Spellberg Lustig
Monday 2/14/2022 at 11:14AM EST
  • "Yes, I am back," said Whoopi, in her first appearance on The View since February 1. (Photo: ABC)
    "Yes, I am back," said Whoopi, in her first appearance on The View since February 1. (Photo: ABC)

    Whoopi Goldberg returned to The View Monday morning after serving a two-week suspension for making controversial remarks about the Holocaust.

    "Yes, I am back," Whoopi said at the top of Monday's show. "There's something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this because we are The View and this is what we do. Sometimes we don't do it as elegantly as we could — it's five minutes to get in important information about topics, and that's what we try to do every day."

    Whoopi went on to "thank everybody who reached out" while she was away from the table. "It was amazing and I listened to everything everybody had to say, and I was very grateful, and I hope it keeps all the important conversations happening," she said. "Because we're going to keep having the tough conversations. And in part, because this is what we've been hired to do."

    "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."

    With that, Whoopi moved on to Hot Topics, and it became business as usual as the co-hosts discussed the Super Bowl halftime show, Donald Trump's recent attack on Sen. Lindsey Graham, and Valentine's Day etiquette. The highlight of the morning came towards the end of the hour, when Darlene Love performed "(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry" as photos of the co-hosts and their spouses appeared on screen behind her. Love's performance marked her first appearance on The View this winter, as her usual Christmastime concert was canceled due to COVID-19.

    Happy Valentine's Day, View-ers!

    Claire Spellberg Lustig is the Senior Editor at Primetimer and a scholar of The View. Follow her on Twitter at @c_spellberg.

    TOPICS: Whoopi Goldberg, The View


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