Whoopi Goldberg does not want to participate in 'The View' group chat
Whoopi Goldberg
Dia Dipasupil/Getty ImagesWhen it comes to a group chat with her cohosts The view, Whoopi Goldberg it's okay to be left out.
During Monday January 29 episode of the ABC talk show, cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin asked if there is a text chain in which she is not included. Cohost Sunny Hostin confirmed that this had happened in the past, but noted that Goldberg, 68, would “gladly” give up her spot in the thread for Farah Griffin, 34.
“I feel like Michael Corleone because I'm distracting myself from the group texts,” Goldberg joked in response, to which Hostin, 55, replied, “And Joy [Behar] put you right back on.”
Despite cohost Ana Navarro Goldberg's position remained the same, suggesting that Goldberg should mute her device's notifications rather than remove herself from the chat altogether.
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“Silencing all of you doesn't mean you're part of it,” she said. 'I do not mind. I don't care what you're angry about. It's the weekend!”
Navarro, 52, pointed out that if there are separate chats without one person, it can lead to accidentally communicating in the wrong one. Goldberg responded to that argument with the rebuttal: “Look, that's why I'm not doing all that stuff, because I know who I'm texting.”
The cast of 'The View': Alyssa Farah Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro and Sara Haines.
ABC/Jeff Lipsky“If I want to talk to you, I'll talk to you,” Goldberg concluded. “I communicate when I have something to say. I'm not just sending you stuff. I'm busy.”
Goldberg has a lot on her plate. She announced earlier this month that she is honoring her late mother and brother with her upcoming memoir, Bits & Pieces: My mother, my brother and mewhich will hit the shelves in May.
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“This book is dedicated to my mother and my brother and our time together as a small, funny little unit,” Goldberg said People. “It is dedicated to anyone who is on a scary path that is not their choice or who is dealing with loss.”
Whoopi Goldberg on 'The View.'
ABC/Lou RoccoHer new memoir will be “semi-autobiographical” and chronicle growing up in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood with her late mother, Emma Harrisand her deceased older brother, Clyde K Johnson. (Goldberg's mother died in 2010 at age 78 after a stroke, while her brother died in 2015 at age 65 from a brain aneurysm.)
“This book is dedicated to anyone who is just trying to discover the little things, but also the things where you have to be more than you thought you could be, and it is dedicated to love,” Goldberg said.