Photo: ABC/Lou Rocco
Whoopi Goldberghas issued an apology for using a Romani slur onThe View.
During Wednesday’s episode, while in conversation about the 2020 presidential election, the 67-year-old moderator, “The people who still believe that he got, you know, gy—d somehow in the election, will still believe that he cared enough about his wife to pay the…” she paused, “…that was gas… money from his personal thing.”
The word is commonly known as an obscenity used against people of Romani heritage.
Goldberg was quick to issue an apology, chalking the mistake up to words she’d heard throughout her life.The Viewuploaded an apology video of Goldberg to their Twitter account.
“You know, when you’re a certain age, you use words that you know from when you’re a kid or you remember saying, and that’s what I did today, and I shouldn’t have,“The Viewco-host said. “I should have thought about it a little longer before I said it, but I didn’t, and I should have said ‘cheated,’ and I used another word, and I’m really, really sorry.”
Whoopi Goldberg.Dia Dipasupil/Getty
In December, shedoubled down on the commentafter receiving heavy backlash for the comment — and beingtemporarily suspendedfrom the show, in an interview withThe Sunday Times. “My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,'” she said.
When theTimesreporter refuted that Nazis considered Jewish people to be a race, Goldberg continued, “The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?”
Whoopi Goldberg.ABC/Lou Rocco
In a statement to PEOPLE after the interview, Goldberg apologized. “I’m still learning a lot and believe me, I heard everything everyone said to me. I believe that the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people,” she said.
“My sincere apologies again, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh rehash of the subject. I promise it was not. In this time of rising antisemitism, I want to be very clear when I say that I always stood with the Jewish people and always will. My support for them has not wavered and never will.”
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source: people.com
