Television Personality, Caryn Elaine Johnson, known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, has issued an apology for using a Romani slur on the TV show, ‘The View’.
During Wednesday’s episode on ‘The View’ Whoopie Goldberg, 67, who is a moderator on the show while in conversation about the 2020 presidential election, said
“The people who still believe that he got, you know, gy—d somehow in the election, will still believe that he cared enough about his wife to pay the…” she paused, “…that was gas… money from his personal thing.”
The word is commonly known as an obscenity used against people of Romani heritage. However, Goldberg was quick to issue an apology, chalking the mistake up to words she’d heard throughout her life.
The View uploaded an apology video of Goldberg to their Twitter account.
She said:
“You know, when you’re a certain age, you use words that you know from when you’re a kid or you remember saying, and that’s what I did today, and I shouldn’t have,” The View co-host said. “I should have thought about it a little longer before I said it, but I didn’t, and I should have said ‘cheated,’ and I used another word, and I’m really, really sorry.”
It is worth noting that this is not the first time Goldberg has apologized for something she’s said on or off the air. Goldberg — who has been a co-host on The View since 2007 — was last in the hot seat after making comments about the Holocaust. In January 2022, Goldberg controversially said the Holocaust was “not about race”.
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored persecution and mass m*rder of millions of European Jews, Romani people, the intellectually disabled, political dissidents and homosexuals by the German Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945.
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