Who Is Whoopi Goldberg Datg Now- Did She Came Out As Gay?

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• THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE
• WHO IS WHOOPI GOLDBERG DATG NOW? DID SHE CAME OUT AS GAY? DGHTER AND NET WORTH
• WHOOPI GOLDBERG Q&A: ‘NOBODY WANTED ME BUT THE GAY COMMUNY’
• WHOOPI GOLDBERG ADDRS 'NVERSATN' OVER HER LDSEY GRAHAM GAY JOKE ON THE VIEW: 'IT WAS A JOKE, GUYS'
• WHOOPI GOLDBERG NET WORTH, DGHTER, HBAND, RELATNSHIPS, KIDS, IS SHE GAY?
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THAT SAME YEAR, GOLDBERG'S SUCCS WH THE COLOR PURPLE LNCHED A HIGHLY VISIBLE ACTG REER. GOLDBERG WON AN AMY AWARD 1991 FOR HER PERFORMANCE GHOST, AND 2007 SHE EMBARKED ON A LENGTHY N AS MORATOR OF THE TV TALK SHOW THE VIEW. GOLDBERG IS ALSO KNOWN FOR BEG AMONG A VERY SMALL GROUP OF CELEBRI WHO'VE ACHIEVED "EGOT" STAT, WNG AN EMMY, GRAMMY, OSR AND TONY AWARD. EARLY LIFEGOLDBERG WAS BORN CARYN ELAE JOHNSON ON NOVEMBER 13, 1955, NEW YORK CY. GOLDBERG AND HER OLR BROTHER, CLY, WERE RAISED BY THEIR MOTHER, EMMA, A HOG PROJECT THE CHELSEA SECTN OF MANHATTAN. GOLDBERG'S FATHER ABANDONED THE FAY, AND HER SGLE MOTHER WORKED AT A VARIETY OF JOBS — CLUDG TEACHG AND NURSG — TO MAKE ENDS MEET. GOLDBERG CHANGED HER NAME WHEN SHE CID THAT HER GIVEN NAME WAS TOO BORG. SHE CLAIMS TO BE HALF JEWISH AND HALF CATHOLIC, AND "GOLDBERG" IS ATTRIBUTED TO HER FAY HISTORY. WH HER TRAMARK DREADLOCKS, WI IMPISH GR AND PIERCG HUMOR, GOLDBERG IS BT KNOWN FOR HER APT PORTRAYALS BOTH EDIC AND DRAMATIC ROL, AS WELL AS HER GROUNDBREAKG WORK THE HOLLYWOOD FILM DTRY AS AN AIN-AMERIN WOMAN. GOLDBERG UNKNOWGLY SUFFERED OM DYSLEXIA, WHICH AFFECTED HER STUDI AND ULTIMATELY DUCED HER TO DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF 17.'THE SPOOK SHOW'IN 1974, GOLDBERG MOVED TO CALIFORNIA, LIVG A VARIETY OF CI FOR THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS CLUDG LOS ANGEL, SAN DIEGO AND SAN FRANCIS. AT ONE POT DURG THIS TIME, SHE WORKED AS A MORTUARY BETICIAN WHILE PURSUG A REER SHOW BS. DURG HER STAY SAN FRANCIS, GOLDBERG WON A BAY AREA THEATRE AWARD FOR HER PORTRAYAL OF EDIENNE {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}MOMS MABLEY A ONE-WOMAN SHOW. SHORTLY AFTER RECEIVG THIS HONOR, SHE RETURNED TO NEW YORK CY. IN 1983, SHE STARRED THE ENORMOLY POPULAR THE SPOOK SHOW. THE ONE-WOMAN OFF-BROADWAY PRODUCTN FEATURED HER OWN ORIGAL EDY MATERIAL THAT ADDRSED THE ISSUE OF RACE AMERI WH UNIQUE PROFUNDY, STYLE AND W. AMONG HER MOST POIGNANT AND TYPILLY NTRADICTORY CREATNS WERE "LTLE GIRL," AN AIN-AMERIN CHILD OBSSED WH HAVG BLOND HAIR; AND "FONTAE," A JUNKIE WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO HOLD A DOCTORATE LERATURE. BY 1984, DIRECTOR MIKE NICHOLS HAD MOVED THE SPOOK SHOW TO A BROADWAY STAGE, AND 1985, GOLDBERG WON A GRAMMY AWARD FOR BT COMEDY ALBUM FOR THE RERDG OF SKS TAKEN OM THE SHOW. 'THE COLOR PURPLE'AS A RULT OF THIS SUCCS, SHE BEGAN TO RECEIVE SIGNIFINT ATTENTN OM HOLLYWOOD SIRS. DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG ST GOLDBERG THE LEADG FEMALE ROLE OF HIS 1985 PRODUCTN OF THE COLOR PURPLE (ADAPTED OM THE NOVEL BY ALICE WALKER).THE FILM WENT ON TO EARN 10 AMY AWARDS AND FIVE GOLN GLOBE NOMATNS. GOLDBERG HERSELF RECEIVED AN OSR NOMATN AND HER FIRST GOLN GLOBE AWARD, FOR BT ACTRS.MOVIGOLDBERG'S SUCCS WH THE COLOR PURPLE LNCHED A HIGHLY VISIBLE ACTG REER. SCE 1985, SHE HAS APPEARED MORE THAN 150 FILM AND TELEVISN PRODUCTNS. HER EARLY FILM CREDS CLU THE SPY EDY JUMP' JACK FLASH (1986), DIRECTED BY PENNY MARSHALL; FATAL BETY (1987), -STARRG SAM ELLTT; CLARA'S HEART (1988); HOMER & EDDIE (1989), -STARRG JAM BELHI; AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS PERD DRAMA, THE LONG WALK HOME (1990), -STARRG SISSY SPACEK. OSR W FOR 'GHOST'STARRG OPPOSE PATRICK SWAYZE AND DEMI MOORE, GOLDBERG'S PERFORMANCE AS STOREONT MEDIUM/SPIRUAL ADVISOR ODA MAE BROWN THE 1990 FILM GHOST LED TO A NUMBER OF TONE ACHIEVEMENTS. SHE WON THE 1991 AMY AWARD FOR BT SUPPORTG ACTRS, MAKG HER JT THE SEND AIN-AMERIN WOMAN TO NAB AN OSR. THE ROLE ALSO GARNERED GOLDBERG HER SEND GOLN GLOBE, AS WELL AS THE BLACK ENTERTAER OF THE YEAR AWARD OM THE NAACP AND THE EXCELLENCE AWARD AT THE WOMEN FILM FTIVAL.IN 1991, GOLDBERG APPEARED THE EDY SOAPDISH WH AN ALL-STAR ST FEATURG SALLY FIELD, KEV KLE AND ELISABETH SHUE, AMONG OTHERS. 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DIRECTED BY EE ARDOLO, SISTER ACT EARNED GOLDBERG AN AMERIN COMEDY AWARD FOR FUNNIT ACTRS A MOTN PICTURE, AS WELL AS ANOTHER GOLN GLOBE NOMATN FOR BT ACTRS A COMEDY. THE SURPRISG SUCCS OF THIS FILM LED TO SISTER ACT 2: BACK THE HAB (1993), WHICH FEATURED MAGGIE SMH REPRISG HER ROLE AS MOTHER SUPERR, AS WELL AS JAM COBURN AND THEN-UNKNOWN R&B ARTIST LRYN HILL.IN NOVEMBER 2019, GOLDBERG REVEALED THAT SHE WOULD BE REPRISG HER ROLE OF DELORIS VAN CARTIER FOR A SIX-WEEK N OF SISTER ACT: THE MIL LONDON 2020.'THE WHOOPI GOLDBERG SHOW'GOLDBERG LNCHED HER OWN TELEVISN TALK SHOW, THE WHOOPI GOLDBERG SHOW, 1992. FEATURG GOLDBERG ONE-ON-ONE TERVIEWS WH PROMENT POLIL AND HOLLYWOOD CELEBRI, THE PROGRAM RAN FOR 200 EPISOS UNTIL 1993, WHEN WAS NCELED DUE TO LOW RATGS. THAT YEAR, GOLDBERG ALSO APPEARED THE FEATURE FILM MA AMERI, -STARRG HER THEN-BOYIEND TED DANSON. IN 1994, 1996 AND 1999, GOLDBERG HOSTED THE AMY AWARDS, MAKG HER THE FIRST WOMAN TO DO SO. BEGNG 1986, SHE ALSO -HOSTED COMIC RELIEF, A LIVE SHOWSE OF BIG-TICKET EDIANS THAT RAISED MONEY FOR THE HOMELS. IN 1997 SHE WAS GIVEN A SPECIAL EMMY FOR HER PARTICIPATN THE SEVEN LIVE SHOWS. IN 1998, GOLDBERG BEGAN APPEARG ON THE CELEBRY GAME SHOW HOLLYWOOD SQUAR, FOR WHICH SHE WAS NOMATED FOR TWO DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS. HER FILM CREDS DURG THAT TIME CLU THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN (1999), WH MICHELLE PFEIFFER, AND GIRL, INTERPTED (1999), -STARRG WONA RYR AND ANGELA JOLIE. IN 2002, SHE PRODUCED THE BROADWAY SHOW, THOROUGHLY MORN MILLIE, FOR WHICH SHE RECEIVED A TONY AWARD, AND THAT SAME YEAR WON AN EMMY FOR HER STARRG ROLE THE DOCUMENTARY BEYOND TARA: THE EXTRAORDARY LIFE OF HATTIE MCDANIEL. IN 2004, GOLDBERG RETURNED TO BROADWAY TO STAR A SELF-TLED ONE-WOMAN SHOW, AND 2006 SHE BUTED A SYNDITED RAD SHOW, WAKE UP WH WHOOPI.'THE VIEW'GOLDBERG BEME THE MORATOR OF THE DAYTIME TALK SHOW THE VIEW ON SEPTEMBER 4, 2007. ON HER FIRST DAY, SHE FEND FOOTBALL STAR MICHAEL VICK HIS DOGFIGHTG SE, NOTG THAT THE SPECTACLE ISN'T UNUAL FOR A SOUTHERN NATIVE-LIKE VICK. "IT'S LIKE CKFIGHTG PUERTO RI," SHE SAID. "THERE ARE CERTA THGS THAT ARE DITIVE TO CERTA PARTS OF THE UNTRY." ON THE NEXT DAY'S BROADST, GOLDBERG SISTED SHE HAD REPEATED SEVERAL TIM SHE DID NOT NDONE WHAT VICK DID. TWO YEARS LATER, 2009, SHE WOULD SHARE AN EMMY W WH HER ST THE OUTSTANDG TALK SHOW HOST TEGORY.WH POLIL DISURSE OFTEN ON THE MENU, GOLDBERG OCSNALLY FOUND HERSELF THE MIDDLE OF THE VIEW'S MOST HEATED MOMENTS. IN 2010, SHE AND -HOST JOY BEHAR WALKED OFF STAGE AFTER NSERVATIVE NEWS PUND BILL O'REILLY ARGUED AGAST THE NSTCTN OF A MLIM MUNY CENTER NEAR THE GROUND ZERO SE MANHATTAN. IN 2018, GOLDBERG SPARRED WH ANOTHER FOX NEWS ANALYST, JEANE PIRRO, WHEN PIRRO ACCED HER OF HAVG "[PRINT] TMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME."IN SEPTEMBER 2019, GOLDBERG ANNOUNCED SHE WAS JOG THE CBS ALL ACCS ADAPTATN OF STEPHEN KG'S THE STAND AS THE 108-YEAR-OLD MOTHER ABIGAIL, A CHOICE THAT PROMPTED HER TO REPORT TO THE VIEW A FEW DAYS LATER WH WHE HAIR.DIRECTOR AND AUTHOR DURG HER TIME ON THE VIEW, GOLDBERG HAS SOUGHT OUT OTHER CREATIVE OPPORTUNI. SHE WENT BEHD THE SCEN TO DIRECT THE 2013 DOCUMENTARY WHOOPI GOLDBERG PRENTS MOMS MABLEY, WHICH EXPLOR THE LIFE AND REER OF ONE OF THE FIRST SUCCSFUL AIN-AMERIN WOMEN STAND-UP EDY. GOLDBERG ALSO APPEARED ON SEVERAL EPISOS OF THE TV MIL GLEE, AND WAS AMONG THE FAMO FAC THE ENSEMBLE ST OF BIG STONE GAP (2015). AN THOR OF BOTH CHILDREN'S AND ADULT FARE, SHE DISHED OUT RELATNSHIP ADVICE WH HER 2015 BOOK, IF SOMEONE SAYS 'YOU COMPLETE ME,' RUN!MEDIL MARIJUANA BSIN MARCH 2016, GOLDBERG ANNOUNCED SHE WAS LNCHG A MEDIL MARIJUANA STARTUP AIMED TO HELP WOMEN WH MENSTAL ISSU. THE BRAND, "WHOOPI AND MAYA," IS LLABORATN WH -FOUNR MAYA ELISABETH, WHO IS ALSO FOUNR OF ANOTHER MEDIL NNABIS BRAND, OM EDIBL, STARTED 2008. GOLDBERG'S SIRE TO STAKE HER CLAIM THE BOOMG MARIJUANA DTRY WAS DUE TO HER LONG-TERM EXPERIENCE WH PAFUL MENSTAL CYCL. SHE'S PROFSED THAT MARIJUANA WAS THE ONLY WAY SHE ULD FD RELIEF.PERSONAL LIFEIN 1973, GOLDBERG MARRIED HER FORMER DG UNSELOR, ALV MART. THE UPLE HAD ONE DGHTER, ALEXANDREA, AND DIVORCED 1979. SHE WAS MARRIED TO MERAMAN DAVID CLASEN OM 1986 TO 1988, AND TO ACTOR LYLE TRACHTENBERG OM 1994 TO 1995. GOLDBERG THEN DATED RENOWNED ACTOR FRANK LANGELLA FOR SEVERAL YEARS. GOLDBERG IS A GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND AN NRA MEMBER. SHE HOLDS A PH.D. LERATURE OM NEW YORK UNIVERSY. SHE ALSO HAS AN HONORARY GREE OM WILSON COLLEGE CHAMBERSBURG, {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
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THE VIEW STAR REVEALS WHY SHE AGRE WH SUPREME COURT LG FOR SIGNER WHO OPPOS GAY MARRIAGE

"Basilly, what says is, bee somethg like creatg a webse would be eedom of exprsn or speech, this would also — let's flip on s head — would protect a gay web signer om havg to create a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ webse. "You don't know somebody's gay unls you ask them, so if the web signer says, 'Um, we're booked up, ' they don't have to al wh that other stuff this woman ma this about. " Goldberg prsed on, tellg Griff, "This is about beg able to say, 'I don't want to do a gay person's webse, ' that's what this is about.

WHO IS WHOOPI GOLDBERG DATG NOW? DID SHE CAME OUT AS GAY? DGHTER AND NET WORTH

The nflict was sparked by the entertament pany's ristance to the state's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill. Is Whoopi Goldberg Gay? No, Whoopi Goldberg isn’t Gay and Her Sexual Directn is Straight.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG Q&A: ‘NOBODY WANTED ME BUT THE GAY COMMUNY’

Did Whoopi Goldberg Come Out As Gay? Whoopi Goldberg has never stated her sexual orientatn to be gay.

In this recent terview wh Whoopi, the edian-actrs talked about how beg a lbian had no effect on Moms beg “the funnit woman the world, ” the longstandg mors of Goldberg’s own sexualy and her mment to the fight for gay rights.

How do you thk a black lbian like Moms managed to have such a followg the ’20s and ’30s, a time when homosexualy would’ve likely been a reer breaker? But I’m not gonna bch at anybody ’e they’re gay, or bee they weigh a lot more than me.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG ADDRS 'NVERSATN' OVER HER LDSEY GRAHAM GAY JOKE ON THE VIEW: 'IT WAS A JOKE, GUYS'

I grew up a neighborhood where there was always gay folks. They’re so ncerned that (people) are gonna be like, “Oh, somebody’s gonna thk I’m gay. But don’t you thk celebri also play a role the gay rights movement jt by beg themselv?

WHOOPI GOLDBERG NET WORTH, DGHTER, HBAND, RELATNSHIPS, KIDS, IS SHE GAY?

Somebody’s gonna thk I’m (gay).

” It’s like, you’d be lucky if somebody thought you were gay! But your gay advocy dat back even further than that: You phed an AIDS-stricken man a wheelchair the 1987 March on Washgton.

Well, sure, there’s all of that, but I’ve always had gay people my life.

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THAT SAME YEAR, GOLDBERG'S SUCCS WH THE COLOR PURPLE LNCHED A HIGHLY VISIBLE ACTG REER. GOLDBERG WON AN AMY AWARD 1991 FOR HER PERFORMANCE GHOST, AND 2007 SHE EMBARKED ON A LENGTHY N AS MORATOR OF THE TV TALK SHOW THE VIEW. GOLDBERG IS ALSO KNOWN FOR BEG AMONG A VERY SMALL GROUP OF CELEBRI WHO'VE ACHIEVED "EGOT" STAT, WNG AN EMMY, GRAMMY, OSR AND TONY AWARD. EARLY LIFEGOLDBERG WAS BORN CARYN ELAE JOHNSON ON NOVEMBER 13, 1955, NEW YORK CY. GOLDBERG AND HER OLR BROTHER, CLY, WERE RAISED BY THEIR MOTHER, EMMA, A HOG PROJECT THE CHELSEA SECTN OF MANHATTAN. GOLDBERG'S FATHER ABANDONED THE FAY, AND HER SGLE MOTHER WORKED AT A VARIETY OF JOBS — CLUDG TEACHG AND NURSG — TO MAKE ENDS MEET. GOLDBERG CHANGED HER NAME WHEN SHE CID THAT HER GIVEN NAME WAS TOO BORG. SHE CLAIMS TO BE HALF JEWISH AND HALF CATHOLIC, AND "GOLDBERG" IS ATTRIBUTED TO HER FAY HISTORY. WH HER TRAMARK DREADLOCKS, WI IMPISH GR AND PIERCG HUMOR, GOLDBERG IS BT KNOWN FOR HER APT PORTRAYALS BOTH EDIC AND DRAMATIC ROL, AS WELL AS HER GROUNDBREAKG WORK THE HOLLYWOOD FILM DTRY AS AN AIN-AMERIN WOMAN. GOLDBERG UNKNOWGLY SUFFERED OM DYSLEXIA, WHICH AFFECTED HER STUDI AND ULTIMATELY DUCED HER TO DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF 17.'THE SPOOK SHOW'IN 1974, GOLDBERG MOVED TO CALIFORNIA, LIVG A VARIETY OF CI FOR THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS CLUDG LOS ANGEL, SAN DIEGO AND SAN FRANCIS. AT ONE POT DURG THIS TIME, SHE WORKED AS A MORTUARY BETICIAN WHILE PURSUG A REER SHOW BS. DURG HER STAY SAN FRANCIS, GOLDBERG WON A BAY AREA THEATRE AWARD FOR HER PORTRAYAL OF EDIENNE {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}MOMS MABLEY A ONE-WOMAN SHOW. SHORTLY AFTER RECEIVG THIS HONOR, SHE RETURNED TO NEW YORK CY. IN 1983, SHE STARRED THE ENORMOLY POPULAR THE SPOOK SHOW. THE ONE-WOMAN OFF-BROADWAY PRODUCTN FEATURED HER OWN ORIGAL EDY MATERIAL THAT ADDRSED THE ISSUE OF RACE AMERI WH UNIQUE PROFUNDY, STYLE AND W. AMONG HER MOST POIGNANT AND TYPILLY NTRADICTORY CREATNS WERE "LTLE GIRL," AN AIN-AMERIN CHILD OBSSED WH HAVG BLOND HAIR; AND "FONTAE," A JUNKIE WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO HOLD A DOCTORATE LERATURE. BY 1984, DIRECTOR MIKE NICHOLS HAD MOVED THE SPOOK SHOW TO A BROADWAY STAGE, AND 1985, GOLDBERG WON A GRAMMY AWARD FOR BT COMEDY ALBUM FOR THE RERDG OF SKS TAKEN OM THE SHOW. 'THE COLOR PURPLE'AS A RULT OF THIS SUCCS, SHE BEGAN TO RECEIVE SIGNIFINT ATTENTN OM HOLLYWOOD SIRS. DIRECTOR STEVEN SPIELBERG ST GOLDBERG THE LEADG FEMALE ROLE OF HIS 1985 PRODUCTN OF THE COLOR PURPLE (ADAPTED OM THE NOVEL BY ALICE WALKER).THE FILM WENT ON TO EARN 10 AMY AWARDS AND FIVE GOLN GLOBE NOMATNS. GOLDBERG HERSELF RECEIVED AN OSR NOMATN AND HER FIRST GOLN GLOBE AWARD, FOR BT ACTRS.MOVIGOLDBERG'S SUCCS WH THE COLOR PURPLE LNCHED A HIGHLY VISIBLE ACTG REER. SCE 1985, SHE HAS APPEARED MORE THAN 150 FILM AND TELEVISN PRODUCTNS. HER EARLY FILM CREDS CLU THE SPY EDY JUMP' JACK FLASH (1986), DIRECTED BY PENNY MARSHALL; FATAL BETY (1987), -STARRG SAM ELLTT; CLARA'S HEART (1988); HOMER & EDDIE (1989), -STARRG JAM BELHI; AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS PERD DRAMA, THE LONG WALK HOME (1990), -STARRG SISSY SPACEK. OSR W FOR 'GHOST'STARRG OPPOSE PATRICK SWAYZE AND DEMI MOORE, GOLDBERG'S PERFORMANCE AS STOREONT MEDIUM/SPIRUAL ADVISOR ODA MAE BROWN THE 1990 FILM GHOST LED TO A NUMBER OF TONE ACHIEVEMENTS. SHE WON THE 1991 AMY AWARD FOR BT SUPPORTG ACTRS, MAKG HER JT THE SEND AIN-AMERIN WOMAN TO NAB AN OSR. 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DIRECTED BY EE ARDOLO, SISTER ACT EARNED GOLDBERG AN AMERIN COMEDY AWARD FOR FUNNIT ACTRS A MOTN PICTURE, AS WELL AS ANOTHER GOLN GLOBE NOMATN FOR BT ACTRS A COMEDY. THE SURPRISG SUCCS OF THIS FILM LED TO SISTER ACT 2: BACK THE HAB (1993), WHICH FEATURED MAGGIE SMH REPRISG HER ROLE AS MOTHER SUPERR, AS WELL AS JAM COBURN AND THEN-UNKNOWN R&B ARTIST LRYN HILL.IN NOVEMBER 2019, GOLDBERG REVEALED THAT SHE WOULD BE REPRISG HER ROLE OF DELORIS VAN CARTIER FOR A SIX-WEEK N OF SISTER ACT: THE MIL LONDON 2020.'THE WHOOPI GOLDBERG SHOW'GOLDBERG LNCHED HER OWN TELEVISN TALK SHOW, THE WHOOPI GOLDBERG SHOW, 1992. FEATURG GOLDBERG ONE-ON-ONE TERVIEWS WH PROMENT POLIL AND HOLLYWOOD CELEBRI, THE PROGRAM RAN FOR 200 EPISOS UNTIL 1993, WHEN WAS NCELED DUE TO LOW RATGS. THAT YEAR, GOLDBERG ALSO APPEARED THE FEATURE FILM MA AMERI, -STARRG HER THEN-BOYIEND TED DANSON. IN 1994, 1996 AND 1999, GOLDBERG HOSTED THE AMY AWARDS, MAKG HER THE FIRST WOMAN TO DO SO. BEGNG 1986, SHE ALSO -HOSTED COMIC RELIEF, A LIVE SHOWSE OF BIG-TICKET EDIANS THAT RAISED MONEY FOR THE HOMELS. IN 1997 SHE WAS GIVEN A SPECIAL EMMY FOR HER PARTICIPATN THE SEVEN LIVE SHOWS. IN 1998, GOLDBERG BEGAN APPEARG ON THE CELEBRY GAME SHOW HOLLYWOOD SQUAR, FOR WHICH SHE WAS NOMATED FOR TWO DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS. HER FILM CREDS DURG THAT TIME CLU THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN (1999), WH MICHELLE PFEIFFER, AND GIRL, INTERPTED (1999), -STARRG WONA RYR AND ANGELA JOLIE. IN 2002, SHE PRODUCED THE BROADWAY SHOW, THOROUGHLY MORN MILLIE, FOR WHICH SHE RECEIVED A TONY AWARD, AND THAT SAME YEAR WON AN EMMY FOR HER STARRG ROLE THE DOCUMENTARY BEYOND TARA: THE EXTRAORDARY LIFE OF HATTIE MCDANIEL. IN 2004, GOLDBERG RETURNED TO BROADWAY TO STAR A SELF-TLED ONE-WOMAN SHOW, AND 2006 SHE BUTED A SYNDITED RAD SHOW, WAKE UP WH WHOOPI.'THE VIEW'GOLDBERG BEME THE MORATOR OF THE DAYTIME TALK SHOW THE VIEW ON SEPTEMBER 4, 2007. ON HER FIRST DAY, SHE FEND FOOTBALL STAR MICHAEL VICK HIS DOGFIGHTG SE, NOTG THAT THE SPECTACLE ISN'T UNUAL FOR A SOUTHERN NATIVE-LIKE VICK. "IT'S LIKE CKFIGHTG PUERTO RI," SHE SAID. "THERE ARE CERTA THGS THAT ARE DITIVE TO CERTA PARTS OF THE UNTRY." ON THE NEXT DAY'S BROADST, GOLDBERG SISTED SHE HAD REPEATED SEVERAL TIM SHE DID NOT NDONE WHAT VICK DID. TWO YEARS LATER, 2009, SHE WOULD SHARE AN EMMY W WH HER ST THE OUTSTANDG TALK SHOW HOST TEGORY.WH POLIL DISURSE OFTEN ON THE MENU, GOLDBERG OCSNALLY FOUND HERSELF THE MIDDLE OF THE VIEW'S MOST HEATED MOMENTS. IN 2010, SHE AND -HOST JOY BEHAR WALKED OFF STAGE AFTER NSERVATIVE NEWS PUND BILL O'REILLY ARGUED AGAST THE NSTCTN OF A MLIM MUNY CENTER NEAR THE GROUND ZERO SE MANHATTAN. IN 2018, GOLDBERG SPARRED WH ANOTHER FOX NEWS ANALYST, JEANE PIRRO, WHEN PIRRO ACCED HER OF HAVG "[PRINT] TMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME."IN SEPTEMBER 2019, GOLDBERG ANNOUNCED SHE WAS JOG THE CBS ALL ACCS ADAPTATN OF STEPHEN KG'S THE STAND AS THE 108-YEAR-OLD MOTHER ABIGAIL, A CHOICE THAT PROMPTED HER TO REPORT TO THE VIEW A FEW DAYS LATER WH WHE HAIR.DIRECTOR AND AUTHOR DURG HER TIME ON THE VIEW, GOLDBERG HAS SOUGHT OUT OTHER CREATIVE OPPORTUNI. SHE WENT BEHD THE SCEN TO DIRECT THE 2013 DOCUMENTARY WHOOPI GOLDBERG PRENTS MOMS MABLEY, WHICH EXPLOR THE LIFE AND REER OF ONE OF THE FIRST SUCCSFUL AIN-AMERIN WOMEN STAND-UP EDY. GOLDBERG ALSO APPEARED ON SEVERAL EPISOS OF THE TV MIL GLEE, AND WAS AMONG THE FAMO FAC THE ENSEMBLE ST OF BIG STONE GAP (2015). AN THOR OF BOTH CHILDREN'S AND ADULT FARE, SHE DISHED OUT RELATNSHIP ADVICE WH HER 2015 BOOK, IF SOMEONE SAYS 'YOU COMPLETE ME,' RUN!MEDIL MARIJUANA BSIN MARCH 2016, GOLDBERG ANNOUNCED SHE WAS LNCHG A MEDIL MARIJUANA STARTUP AIMED TO HELP WOMEN WH MENSTAL ISSU. THE BRAND, "WHOOPI AND MAYA," IS LLABORATN WH -FOUNR MAYA ELISABETH, WHO IS ALSO FOUNR OF ANOTHER MEDIL NNABIS BRAND, OM EDIBL, STARTED 2008. GOLDBERG'S SIRE TO STAKE HER CLAIM THE BOOMG MARIJUANA DTRY WAS DUE TO HER LONG-TERM EXPERIENCE WH PAFUL MENSTAL CYCL. SHE'S PROFSED THAT MARIJUANA WAS THE ONLY WAY SHE ULD FD RELIEF.PERSONAL LIFEIN 1973, GOLDBERG MARRIED HER FORMER DG UNSELOR, ALV MART. THE UPLE HAD ONE DGHTER, ALEXANDREA, AND DIVORCED 1979. SHE WAS MARRIED TO MERAMAN DAVID CLASEN OM 1986 TO 1988, AND TO ACTOR LYLE TRACHTENBERG OM 1994 TO 1995. GOLDBERG THEN DATED RENOWNED ACTOR FRANK LANGELLA FOR SEVERAL YEARS. GOLDBERG IS A GAY AND LBIAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND AN NRA MEMBER. SHE HOLDS A PH.D. LERATURE OM NEW YORK UNIVERSY. SHE ALSO HAS AN HONORARY GREE OM WILSON COLLEGE CHAMBERSBURG, {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

” They say, “We thk you’re gay.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG MARRIED AFTER THREE DIVORC? GAY RUMORS & SPO

I have been gay films. But I’ve always been claimed by the gay muny. What’s gayer: playg an actual lbian or a sgg nun?

IS WHOOPI GOLDBERG GAY?

Your advocy the gay muny has meant a lot to a lot of people. People keep tryg to divi up to “you’re gay, you’re black, you’re whe, ” but we’re all one people.

" Whoopi Goldberg on The View and Ldsey Graham Whoopi Goldberg addrsed a gay joke she seemed to make about Ldsey Graham on 'The View.