Yahoo Lifestyle ‘The View’s Whoopi Goldberg Wins Audie Award & Reveals Why It’s So Meaningful: “You Are What Keeps Me From Going Over The Edge”
Whoopi Goldberg is an EGOT winner and her most recent win was at the 2025 Audie Awards, which recognizes audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.
The View’s moderator showed off her trophy Wednesday on the ABC daytime talk show after winning the Best Narration category for narrating her novel Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me.
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Goldberg said on the show that “one of the reasons I was not at home to watch” Donald Trump’s address to Congress “was because I was so honored to receive an Audie Award for narrating my audio book.”
“This one is particularly meaningful to me because, as I’ve said when we talk about books that for me, my mom, because I was dyslexic, read to me all the time,” Goldberg said. “And with the onset of audiobooks, now other kids who are like me, or who were like me, have access to audio, for school things, for everything.”
She continued, “You are what keeps me from going over the edge, because the books, whatever I’m listening to on any given day, I can calm myself to come out and really just have a really good fun discussion. And it’s due to audiobooks and to the people that do this work.”
Goldberg said she met a lot of the people that help narrate the books and joked saying, “I’ve slept with all of you because I’ve listened to most of you at night.”
“The greatest thing was I was recognizing people’s voices from the books I’d heard,” she added. “For me, it was like heave. So thank you.”
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