Yahoo Lifestyle Whoopi Goldberg Tried To Relate To Viewers By Saying That She Is Also “Having A Hard Time” Financially, And Can’t Afford To Stop Working On “The View”
Whoopi Goldberg has said that she is “having a hard time” financially, like many other Americans, and can’t afford to stop working on The View.
The 69-year-old star made the comments during Tuesday’s episode of the ABC talk show, which she first joined back in 2007.
The panel was discussing the results of last week’s presidential election, and Sara Haines — who voted for Kamala Harris — acknowledged that she was trying to understand why working-class people voted for Donald Trump with the belief that he will make things better for them.
“There were millions and millions of people who felt heard [by Trump], and that’s what I’m trying to walk into,” she explained.
As tensions began to rise between the women, Whoopi interjected to suggest that she can resonate with the plight of struggling Americans.
“I appreciate that people are having a hard time, me, too — I work for a living!” she said. "If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, OK? So, I'm a working person, you know?"
"My kid has to feed her family. My great-granddaughter has to be fed by her family. I know it's hard out there," Whoopi went on.
Referencing the election result, she then added: “We talk to people all the time who say: ‘This is what's bothering me.' But, the thing that's bothering everybody should not be the thing that puts 85% of other people in danger. I think that's what we're saying."
It’s worth mentioning that while Whoopi’s salary for The View is currently unknown, Variety reported back in 2016 that her contract was estimated to be “in the $5 to $6 million range.”
The star also has an estimated net worth of $30 million, and her salary for the 1993 movie Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit briefly made her the highest-paid actress in Hollywood.
Whoopi has continued to both act in and produce movies throughout her tenure on The View, and is currently working on a third installment of the hugely successful Sister Act series.
Needless to say, Whoopi’s latest comments arguably align with what her former co-host Meghan McCain said about The View’s panel back in April, with Meghan arguing that there is a disconnect between the stars on the show and the general public who are watching at home.
“I had an experience while I was working at ABC News [on The View],” Meghan said on her podcast, Citizen McCain. “I was in a particularly heated Hot Topics meeting.”
“I remember yelling at the meeting that: 'Some of you, or all of you, are going to have to start interacting with people who don’t make $100,000 a year or more,'” she recalled. “'You have to interact with someone who makes minimum wage, on some level or another.’”
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