23-05-2025
Whoopi Goldberg, 69, reveals very surprising piece of lingerie she has not worn in 50 years
Whoopi Goldberg made a surprising admission during an episode of The View this week.
While chatting alongside co-hosts Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin, the 69-year-old Hollywood vet — who appeared to fall asleep on a recent episode — revealed she hasn't worn a bra in 50 years.
The admission was made as the women discussed the subject in reference to a conversation between Real Housewives of Potomac stars Gizelle Bryant and Robyn Dixon on their podcast Reasonably Shady.
During The View's Hot Topics segment, the ladies weighed in on their preferred way of putting on the undergarment.
When it was time for the Ghost actress to share, she exclaimed, 'I don't wear one. I have not worn a bra in 50 years.'
She lightheartedly added that she 'liberated those girls a long time ago.'
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And the star joked, 'It's too uncomfortable, and I don't mind if they hit the floor! They're mine.'
According to her timeline, Whoopi has not put on a brassiere since she was in her 20s back in the 1970s.
Demonstrating her ability to make an audience laugh with her comedic chops, Goldberg got out of her chair quickly acted out a scene.
'This is what you do. You're walking and then you go, "Hey girl," she said while pretending to kick a would-be breast off the ground and over her shoulder.
One year ago Whoopi revealed that a hotel maid once found her in the closet with cocaine 'all over' her face after she became a 'high-functioning' addict in the 1980s.
She opened up about her substance abuse in her memoir, Bits And Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, And Me.
Inside the pages of the book she also wrote about her mom, Emma, being sent to a psychiatric hospital for two years.
Recalling the height of her addiction to cocaine, the Sister Act star wrote that she believed she could handle the drug because it didn't seem as dangerous as heroin, which she had previously been hooked on in the 1970s.
Whoopi explained in the literary effort how after moving to Los Angeles she attended parties where it wasn't unusual for a bowl of Quaaludes to be openly displayed for guests.
The mother-of-one, whose first husband Alvin Martin was her drug counselor, explained that despite using drugs routinely, she still showed up to work.
However, about a year into the substance abuse she realized she was getting 'sloppy.' She recalled the incident that took place in a Manhattan hotel room, describing it as a 'slap-in-the-face' moment for her.
According to the memoir, she was sitting on the closet floor sniffing cocaine by herself when a maid knocked on the door and let herself in.
'I screamed, she screamed and backed up and looked like she was going to run,' Whoopi explained.
'I had to get to her quickly and try to calm her down. She was staring at my face as I talked,' the morning show host continued before noting she later looked in the mirror and realized that she had cocaine 'all over' her face.
