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The view starts live

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right now. Working

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the polls. From nationwide

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campus protests turning violent to the

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battle over abortion rights and Trump's

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trials that are keeping him off

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the campaign trail. I'm supposed to

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be in Ohio and lots of other places. What

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are the key issues that'll get

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voters to polls and decide who

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wins the White House in November?

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Then Whoopi talks about opening up like

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never before in her

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personal poignant new memoir, Bits and

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Pieces, My Mother, My Brother and

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come hot topics with

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Whoopi, Sarah

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Haines, Inna

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Navarro, Joy

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Behar, Sunny

1:02

Hostin and

1:04

Alyssa Farrah Griffin. Now

1:08

let's get things started. Hello,

1:26

hello,

1:31

hello.

1:38

Welcome to the view. Have a seat, have a

1:40

seat, have a seat. Ooh, that was great. Joy

1:45

is letting us know that you all

1:47

are a very young crowd. This is. It

1:50

is a young crowd. Yes, there are a lot of

1:53

young people. There's a 96 year old over there. Yes,

1:57

she's over there. Wow, yes. Nice.

2:02

Eighty Four. Eighty five. Yeah. And then we

2:05

had some twenties. And. At

2:09

this point zero nineteen system for

2:11

to have a university. Says starting

2:13

trouble or here. As

2:17

well as it turns out, there are a

2:20

lot of major issues happening in the country.

2:22

Around the world right now, us

2:24

abortion rights being stripped, our nation

2:26

wide campus protests over the Israel

2:29

Hamas war and you know who,

2:31

who's criminal trial just to name

2:33

a few. So with all of

2:35

this going on, how. Are people?

2:38

Can people even navigates? Because it feels

2:40

like it's just like the media. Blitz

2:42

some everything constantly all the time.

2:45

So I am in such a good mood

2:47

today and I hate to raise this point.

2:49

but I have to and without ruffling some

2:51

alarm bells The Election. Seven months out. I

2:53

don't trust polling. I do agree that I

2:55

think you can take it on aggregate. and

2:57

it's the polls on aggregate to be believed.

2:59

Donald Trump very well may be present and

3:01

seven months. And here's what I fear. My

3:03

initial thought with him being on trial in

3:06

a court room and on the campaign trail

3:08

was gonna hurt. and I'm starting to think

3:10

that it doesn't in the same way because

3:12

he's not out there saying crazy things. He's

3:14

not saying immigrants or poisoning. Our blood. He's

3:16

actually has to kind of sit there silently

3:18

with his hands for this. So what the

3:20

media or what people are thing when they

3:22

turn the media. Not that crazy timepiece. We

3:24

ride yesterday about all that horrifying things is

3:26

going to do in a second term. They

3:28

see violence and they see protests on college

3:31

campuses, cc young people calling Joe Biden genocide

3:33

Joe. And it scares people. Whether it's your

3:35

from a law and order perspective, whether you're

3:37

on the fence about Biden, I think there's

3:39

a real reality right now that Joe Biden

3:41

to pick up swing voters, he could pick

3:43

up moderate republicans and suburb. Why. When. Women

3:45

always about what? What are the reasons that

3:47

is not widely sale at all? You can

3:50

pick up all the demographics you generally need,

3:52

but lose young, progressive and lose the election

3:54

of Donald Trump? That's where we are. What

3:56

was it? Is it a good mood? Know?

3:58

I'm sorry. I

4:00

know, I'm sorry to bring the movie on

4:02

with my take the i'm very wise identical.

4:05

What's the good mood about? Can't see we

4:07

are just me and we'll adams hundreds rather

4:09

than. I thought

4:11

I thought we were going to get

4:14

something different. I was wait until it's

4:16

like a good idea. I disagree about

4:18

the the the the trials. But

4:21

I. Would like to start with the

4:24

fact that I am so shocked

4:26

that the Republican party has a

4:28

nominee who is a former to

4:30

one term twice in peace. Indicted

4:32

with eighty eight criminal charges and

4:34

found guilty of sexual abuse, a

4:36

libel for a saddle Genocide. What's

4:38

your by an unpaid? So shocked

4:40

that that's all the Republican party

4:42

had to offer. But what does

4:44

give me some hope it makes

4:46

me a little bit happy with

4:48

my legal nurse. Had on is

4:50

that there have on Americans. Are more

4:52

likely than not to say the criminal cases

4:55

don't positively impact their like we had to

4:57

vote for him. Thirty three percent of all

4:59

Americans are much less likely to vote for

5:01

Trump because of the criminal case, and two

5:03

thirds of registered voters Sixty four percent say

5:06

Trump's hush money charges are serious. If he's

5:08

convicted, they will not vote for hims. I

5:10

think that is a bright spot. I think

5:12

that's important and I do think the people

5:14

are paying attention to the fact that he's

5:17

been fine nine thousand dollars for on about,

5:19

you know, for violating a gag order. The

5:21

he's just. Losing. A his parting up

5:23

a storm In the course, everyone from

5:25

writing about that he's probably sick, horrified

5:28

felt that he sitting there falling asleep.

5:30

He's now sleepy dawn. There's no Sleepy

5:32

Joe anymore. Think there's a lot of

5:34

good stuff? Have any to get him

5:36

on the modi? A bad just because

5:38

we're such a young crowd here today.

5:40

I'd like to point out that Harvard.

5:43

Of is to the politics released poll.

5:45

Said they did and this whole thing

5:47

that's going on with the Israeli Palestine

5:49

problem are is ranks at the bottom

5:51

is near the bottom that you young

5:53

people are more interested in sixty four

5:55

percent inflation, health care of a gun

5:57

violence. Protecting Democracy brief.

6:01

and climate change. Thank you.

6:03

Thank you, young people, because

6:05

we're relying on you to save the country

6:07

and the world. And remember, when you don't have

6:09

to love Joe Biden, you just have to love

6:11

your freedom. That's all you have to love. It

6:14

gets a little hard. So

6:16

much. Oh,

6:19

this is interesting, because your point

6:22

actually, something's resonating

6:24

with me about what you're saying here,

6:26

because what I came in today thinking

6:28

is I've always worried about the younger

6:30

vote for President Biden, because we've watched

6:33

the debates, the protests, the disagreement

6:35

nationwide, but especially among young people

6:37

about what's happening in the Middle

6:39

East. And it's grown now

6:41

over the past few weeks that now not

6:43

only is the young vote a risk to

6:45

President Biden, but I do think moderates

6:48

and independents now, because I think optics

6:50

matter. We say that at this table all the time. Even

6:53

though it's not Biden's fault, what we are

6:55

seeing all over the news is

6:58

are these protests and what's seemingly out of

7:00

control. We're watching the young people of all

7:02

people, people send their kids to college and

7:04

you're watching on TV and they're like, come

7:06

home, please. Like, it is chaotic. It is

7:09

crazy. And even though President Biden couldn't march

7:11

in and fix it, chaos

7:13

always goes on the president, the president administration

7:16

and the con. Wait, one second. The contrast,

7:18

Alyssa, I had not thought of is you're

7:20

right. There is something about Trump's crazy. He's

7:22

not out there. But when you're

7:24

seeing him sitting still compared to what we're watching.

7:26

He's sitting in a courtroom farting. We

7:29

don't use that word in our house. You

7:31

guys, you are a couple of negative nay

7:33

bobs. What I see is that very soon

7:36

all these kids whose parents are paying almost

7:38

$100,000 a year to send them to these

7:40

schools are going to go home pretty soon

7:42

and have their nights little summer vacations and

7:44

it's all going to end. Watch.

7:46

Can I just point out the fact that

7:50

what we're seeing is a slice

7:53

of life on campus. Not

7:56

all kids are doing all things. And

7:58

We are seven months out. Able

8:01

know who he is. They've

8:03

made their decisions, people. I'm

8:05

decided. In terms of what they

8:08

want for democracy, no one who is

8:10

sitting here is going to tell you

8:12

who they're going to vote for. I

8:14

love knowing that because when I was

8:16

the kids you couldn't ask an adult

8:18

who you gonna vote for has no

8:20

one's business. So. I'm counting.

8:23

On me. As a

8:25

voter to vote for everybody's

8:27

best interest. Not just mind.

8:30

Yes, this is this country.

8:32

Is predicated on how we

8:34

deal with each other. This

8:37

has always been a way that's why we've been fighting

8:39

to go. Forward We will always have

8:41

protest. Who knows who's gonna be

8:44

protesting in In in five months

8:46

or four months. This. Is all

8:48

the things you're saying are possible and

8:50

I acknowledge them, but I am not.

8:53

I am not worried because I believe.

8:56

Women in particular. Don't

8:58

want somebody who. Says any only and

9:01

to say it was. I

9:03

am going to decide. How

9:06

a woman, what a woman's pregnancy is

9:08

gonna be? I'm going. To decide. That's

9:10

what he says. I think women want

9:12

to hear that. Silva said as he

9:14

promised, well that women should be punished

9:16

when they get an abortion. But I

9:18

do think I if I think that

9:20

Joe Biden should consider giving a national

9:22

address on the Israel Hamas war, his

9:24

administration is doing a lot and have

9:26

blame him for what's happening when it's

9:28

because here I am defending Joe Biden.

9:30

Bet that he's not only been working

9:32

to get a ceasefire, it's not like

9:34

he's sitting at his hands and as

9:36

in his control. but the young people.

9:38

There's a lot of misunderstanding. of the conflict

9:41

what the administration is doing and cancer drugs

9:43

that because was campuses will wind down the

9:45

convention will come up in there will very

9:47

likely be protests and nineteen se eight whatever

9:49

wants a compared s nixon one so her

9:51

china will let you will when we know

9:53

we were gonna when there was never there

9:55

was never any of the going to win

9:57

an election that you i want to have

9:59

younger What you said though about when we

10:02

talk about women's reproductive rights, I think everyone

10:04

jumps to abortion. What we need to remember

10:06

is what I said yesterday, which is no,

10:08

the bills they're trying to pass when if

10:11

it were President Trump is life at conception.

10:13

So I just wanna remind in

10:15

a country where we're seeing a lot of fertility issues, those

10:18

go off the table because the right, at

10:20

fertilization will eliminate IVF in this country. So

10:22

if you have problems or are worried, don't

10:24

worry about an abortion. Worry about planning your

10:26

family. Because that's what that thing. I would

10:28

add to that, which I brought up before, that

10:30

I had an ectopid in President and

10:33

if the laws were in place then, I would probably

10:36

not be sitting here. For those of you who are plotting

10:38

that, shut up. Just keep in

10:40

mind, these seem like minutia, little

10:45

tiny things where we've talked to

10:47

folks. But realize that all of

10:49

this affects each of you. My

10:53

healthcare affects you. Your

10:55

healthcare affects me. How you

10:57

raise your children is something

11:00

that has always been in your

11:02

purview. Is it time

11:04

to hand that over to the government? Is

11:06

that what you want? It comes

11:09

down to, do you wanna fight

11:11

it out and do it fairly? Or

11:13

you want a dictatorship? Because the man has said he's gonna

11:16

be a dictator. He said it. I

11:18

believe him. This is the only time

11:20

I believe him. But I believe him.

11:23

So it's on us. And oh, I'm supposed

11:25

to let y'all know this. WNBA

11:28

star Brittany Griner's interview with Robin

11:30

Roberts airs tonight and she is

11:32

opening up about the moment that

11:34

led to her being incarcerated for

11:37

10 months in a Russian prison.

11:39

Take a look. At

11:41

the Moscow airport, this is Russian custom

11:43

service footage of Brittany Griner putting her

11:45

carry-on bags through the scanner, unaware that

11:48

life as she knows it is about

11:50

to end as the agent

11:52

tells her to search for backpack. So

11:54

you reached down because you've been told to go

11:57

through your bag and you

11:59

felt... What

12:02

were you thinking at that moment when you felt that and had to bring

12:05

it out? Like

12:07

my whole heart just fell out of my body.

12:09

And I'm just like, man, my

12:11

life is over right here. So

12:15

Prisoner in Russia, the Brittany Griner

12:17

interview with Robin Roberts airs tonight

12:19

at 10 p.m. Eastern on ABC.

12:21

And Brittany will be here with

12:23

us later on this month. And

12:26

what we're going to do right now is we're going to take a

12:28

break and then we're coming back. This is Sunny

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15:54

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16:00

answer did you say gossiping of

16:02

as. As he

16:04

quickly you know sense of follow of

16:06

saying sieges was asked wanted to pay

16:08

or compliments and forgot that the world.

16:10

Was all world was really some

16:12

Melissa responded with this video take

16:14

a look. For.

16:18

Taking the Barbie says he does she

16:20

need such me and she. And

16:24

windy day. And

16:32

about class I've ever thought. Oh, and I'm

16:34

supposed to ask, you, have you ever accidentally

16:36

hit send. Your he has. I've

16:40

only been fully why, but sometimes comments seem

16:42

to be like that direct message. I feel

16:44

his pain because I've done it myself. As

16:47

far as telling some asking someone that

16:50

question. I mean, I don't think it's. Rude new

16:52

lawyer asked. Me last segment if

16:54

I was on drugs know. How

16:58

of. Beauty

17:01

of do I listen. If somebody is worth

17:03

a lot of weight and you death Iran

17:05

and the drug you just go oh event

17:08

and a very fine thank you Ask them

17:10

as the end of the commissary why didn't

17:12

I also like the Hollywood world. It's like

17:15

couture agent like these days it's like you

17:17

on it sees I was I know if

17:19

you are we are many them what's what

17:21

rent to pay for shall we don't You

17:24

know how nine of I never underestimate how

17:26

much is your way of Iowa? How. Much

17:28

you weigh in What do you make Lower

17:30

had a out my next point of a

17:32

New Yorkers your and I am I'm an

17:34

implant yeah what I do think if you're

17:37

an icon you can get away with it

17:39

because the Melissa Mccarthy's point she's just excited

17:41

that harbor freight and send her comments like

17:43

and I wonder what she thought and like

17:45

just that your here's another what watch it

17:47

became probably did think is that she was

17:49

May direct messaging her and as he thought

17:51

that at that time I guess I'm I'm

17:54

writing notes thinking it's to only the media

17:56

and and every one. I actually recently says

17:58

that. this i thought that

18:00

the iPhone, and I'm sure many of

18:02

you think as well, that if you

18:04

send someone a message that you

18:06

can take it back now. Yes, you can.

18:08

You can as well check this out, Whoopi,

18:10

because I've been on the phone with Apple

18:13

people. After two minutes, if

18:15

they, first of all, if they open it up first,

18:17

they can't, they'll take back. No

18:20

takes, they've heard it. And if you leave it

18:22

for two minutes, then you can

18:24

delete the message on your end,

18:27

but the unsend option is not

18:29

over. So I sent someone a

18:31

message, and then I didn't really

18:33

mean it. What did you say? Was it to me? Come

18:35

on, tell it. Was it angry? It

18:38

was, no, it was a breakup of

18:40

sorts. So I sent the message. I'm a

18:42

girlfriend, probably. Yeah. Your husband did

18:44

not announce it. Yeah, so I sent a message

18:46

like, you know, I'm sorry, but

18:49

I wasn't really sorry. Oh. And

18:52

so then I was like, hmm, re-racing that. And then

18:54

the next morning I get a message, thank

18:56

you so much. Oh. And

18:58

I was like, ah! Well send another

19:00

one, I hate you. Oh, that's good. So I

19:03

had, not quite this, but in my 20s, did

19:05

you ever have like, maybe were a little over-served,

19:07

had like an on and off against situation. Oh

19:09

yeah. Situation ship. And you send them a message

19:11

that night, and then you don't wanna see it

19:13

in the morning, so you delete it. But then

19:15

you see their response, and you don't remember what

19:18

you sent? I don't remember. That definitely happened to

19:20

me. Yeah, I don't remember exactly what I wrote,

19:22

but. There are apps to protect you from that.

19:24

I didn't find them soon enough, but are

19:26

there apps? I had a lot to say when I drank. Yes. Couldn't

19:29

unsend them in those days. Oh,

19:31

you have to tell me about these apps. Maybe drink a

19:33

little less. I think that might be the answer. It's not

19:35

nothin' we'll be, not nothin'. No, I think it is. I

19:38

think, you know, if you know that you

19:40

are loose-fingered, and

19:43

that you are in one of those, cause it

19:45

used to be people drunk called you. Oh yeah.

19:48

Oh, that's true. And the old days, when I

19:50

was younger, people would call

19:52

up and go, oh my

19:54

God, I can't believe, well, you

19:56

just said, I'm pretty out the

19:58

window. Yeah, yeah. And you'd

20:00

say to somebody, you know that it's

20:02

4 a.m. And

20:05

you're calling me and you're drunk. And drunk

20:07

people never wanna get off the phone. Oh

20:09

yeah. So I used to just put the

20:11

phone down. So do a little less,

20:13

drink a little less. But it's also a nice thing. Then

20:16

you'll remember a little more. But I make so many promises.

20:18

Like I have plans for the rest of my life. Like

20:20

we're going on, you said we were going on a trip.

20:22

I'm like, when did I say that? Like I promised and

20:24

I got it. Who are you saying these things? All sorts

20:26

of people, anyone in my phone. I

20:29

thought they said a drunk tongue speaks a sober

20:31

mouth or something like that. A drunk mouth speaks a sober

20:33

tongue? Yeah, it's my feelings like really amped

20:35

up. And they are already a lot

20:37

sober. They say in vino very tough.

20:39

Yeah, that's right. That's it. Don't

20:42

you love it when I speak Latin? In

20:44

wine there is truth. That's the truth of wine.

20:47

That's why I drink wine. But it's not necessarily

20:49

true. Because a drunk tongue

20:51

is a lion tongue. A

20:54

promising tongue. That's how people end

20:56

up with the wrong person. In

20:59

the morning, because they thought they went home

21:02

with somebody totally different. See,

21:04

that's why you can't drink and

21:06

leave with people. Young people,

21:08

listen to me when I tell you this. Don't

21:12

do it. Don't do it. Listen,

21:14

except we're going right now, but

21:16

we will be back. Woo!

21:28

Take it from me, no matter how much

21:31

you think you know Whoopi Goldberg,

21:33

you will be surprised, moved, and

21:35

inspired by her unique and deeply

21:37

personal new memoir, Bits and Pieces,

21:39

My Mother, My Brother, and Me.

21:41

So please give a warm welcome

21:43

to Whoopi Goldberg. I

22:00

suppose she has to hug all of us. No,

22:07

I'm just gonna say no hug, really, really. But

22:09

we'll be, you know, I think all of us

22:11

here at the table know you really well, and

22:13

yet reading this book, there was

22:15

so much new stuff, but also understanding that

22:18

I didn't relate. And one of the things

22:20

that really landed with me after this book

22:22

was a lot of the pain you carry

22:24

around that I was unaware

22:26

of to the level that it's

22:28

sitting with you still. So I

22:30

wanna talk to you a little bit. You open

22:32

up about your childhood with your amazing mom, Emma,

22:35

and your brother, Clyde. Now, you

22:38

tell us about what it was like before they passed

22:40

away. Why was this the right time to write this

22:42

book? I'm not sure. I don't know,

22:44

but I knew that I had to do it. I

22:47

wasn't sure whether I was

22:49

in deep something about

22:52

missing them, because they've been gone a while now. You know, it's

22:55

11 years and 15, 16 years. And

22:59

so I think I just was starting

23:01

to forget a lot of stuff. Because

23:03

when you have a sibling or you have somebody

23:06

that's been with you from the beginning,

23:08

they can say, no, no, it didn't happen that

23:10

way. It happened this way. But

23:12

everyone's gone. And

23:15

so I don't have, I

23:17

have memories of things that happened, but

23:19

I don't have specific dates or times.

23:22

And so in the book, I probably

23:24

should have started the book by saying,

23:27

this may or may not have happened exactly

23:29

the way I said it. It

23:31

happened, but I can't tell you when. Well,

23:35

I remember why they say, this has to be

23:38

as factual as that to be true. When? All

23:40

true. So this is true, what you wrote. And

23:43

what struck me in this is you were

23:45

up in the Chelsea Project, but you had all

23:47

these incredible experiences growing up. You went to

23:49

the Christmas Spectacular and saw the Rockettes, you go

23:52

to Coney Island. You saw the Beatles. Your

23:54

mom opened you up to a world of the

23:57

arts and culture. And you say you don't

23:59

know how she did it. because you were living, she

24:01

was living paycheck to paycheck barely making ends

24:03

meet. Do you know and what's your,

24:05

how was she able to do all this? I still don't know.

24:08

I mean I talk about the fact that every

24:10

Christmas she had, you know, each

24:13

night for about 11 nights you'd

24:16

wake up in the next morning and there's something

24:18

painted on the window. And then the next day

24:20

you'd wake up and there was a tree in

24:22

the house. And I had no idea, I didn't

24:24

know how she got the tree in the house because

24:26

she wasn't a big woman. And

24:30

by the time the time was

24:32

done, it was all decorated and

24:35

she had made this wonderful thing. And

24:37

the thing that she did always say

24:39

to us is that she wanted us to

24:42

be children as long as we could be.

24:44

She wanted us to always be filled with

24:46

wonder and magic and

24:48

believe in things that everybody was gonna tell

24:51

me as an adult to stop believing

24:53

and grow up. But she said never

24:55

lose it. Yeah, because I believe, listen,

24:57

I believe that magic happens all

25:00

the time, all the time. And

25:02

because we are so married

25:06

to our phones and married to our stuff, we

25:08

don't always catch it. But the kids catch it.

25:10

But we don't say to them, did some

25:13

magical just happen? Did

25:15

something just go on? Because we forget that

25:17

that's what they need. They need a little

25:20

something to take the pressure off the

25:22

lives that we're having

25:24

them live. So

25:26

you're writing in the book that when you were a kid, your mother

25:28

had what they used to call a nervous breakdown. But

25:32

she had a difficult, difficult time. And

25:35

she was taken to the hospital. Taken to

25:37

Bellevue. To Bellevue. That's

25:40

scary right there. And you

25:42

didn't really know what happened to

25:44

her for two years, right? I

25:47

mean, and then she came back. I

25:49

read that she didn't really remember the

25:51

two of you. Yeah. And

25:54

who was what? Taking care of you and Clyde. And

25:56

how old were you, do you know? I

25:58

think I must've been a... around eight. And

26:02

Clyde was what? Two days. Six years

26:04

older than me. But our cousin Arlene

26:06

who is watching, who loves the show, she

26:08

lives in Alabama, she took care of

26:10

us and my dad showed up and he took

26:12

care of us. But you know, in

26:15

those days, kids were told

26:18

nothing. Parents just disappeared, things

26:20

happened. And for me,

26:22

it was really kind of like, oh,

26:25

so they've taken her to

26:27

this hospital and

26:30

no one's gonna tell me anything and I can't

26:32

go see her. And they didn't even tell you she's

26:34

getting better or she's, she's nothing. They

26:37

just never mentioned it because that's what you mean.

26:39

I can't imagine the pain of carrying that with

26:41

being a child with no explanation. But we didn't

26:43

know any better. We didn't know that, you

26:45

know, now we discuss everything with children

26:47

and maybe that's not the crazy thing

26:49

to me, Doris. It's better, but

26:51

you now at least know, because I

26:53

had to deal with this with my

26:55

daughter because when I got famous,

26:58

I didn't realize that I

27:00

too was leaving her because

27:03

she and I had been like this, you know, we

27:06

were together, we were our own. Like you and

27:08

your mother. Like me and my mother and my

27:10

brother, we were that. And

27:13

so when she got

27:15

really annoyed with me later

27:17

in life, I said, what

27:19

is the problem? And I realized, oh

27:21

my God, I did the same

27:23

thing that my mother did,

27:25

except that it wasn't my mother's choice.

27:28

I knew I was leaving. I knew why I

27:30

was leaving and tried to explain it, which you

27:32

can't do to an eight year old because they

27:34

don't have eight, they only have eight years of

27:36

life, which means they maybe have four. Right.

27:40

Yeah. When she was in the

27:42

hospital, they said, I just want to follow up on that

27:44

last one. What happened to her that you didn't remember who

27:46

you were? She got all those. They gave her a fair

27:48

amount of treatment. Electro-shop. Electro-shop.

27:52

Because your husband, so here's

27:54

another reason why you must really

27:56

pay attention to what's going on

27:58

politically, because they. There was a time

28:00

in this country where your husband or

28:02

your brother or any man

28:05

involved in your life could make medical

28:08

decisions for you. So my mother's father,

28:11

my grandfather, and my dad,

28:14

okayed it. And they were together in this one. No,

28:17

they okayed that my mother get the

28:19

shock treatment for two years. My jaw

28:21

hit the floor that in your lifetime that was

28:23

still legal. Yeah. I don't think

28:25

I realized that. I was out of the 18th. I

28:27

was shocked as well. And I was, like

28:30

Sarah said, we all know you so well.

28:32

We've worked with you almost 10 years now.

28:35

You're so vulnerable in this, Whoopi. And I

28:37

learned so much. And I

28:40

think it's gonna help a lot of people. Well, also,

28:42

I just, you know, I do. The

28:44

thing about grief is that

28:47

there's no, I say

28:49

it in the book, you

28:51

have to understand people don't know

28:53

what to say. They don't know how

28:55

to respond. So my mom passed and

28:58

I would get really annoyed with people and think, why

29:00

are you asking me this question? What do you mean,

29:02

how do I feel? And then I realized they haven't

29:04

had the experience so they don't know. So

29:07

you can't be pissed at people because they

29:09

are trying to be kind. Let

29:12

me ask you about your brother. Can you talk about

29:14

Clyde? You write about him so

29:16

much and you talk about him all the

29:18

time still. He is a hottie, such a

29:20

hottie. Looks like Michael Jordan. You

29:23

were incredibly close to him, right? And as

29:25

we talked about, these were times when

29:27

you only had each other. Yeah.

29:29

And I would imagine being six

29:31

years older, he probably took care

29:34

of you. Yeah. Right, it was your caretaker.

29:36

What was he like as a big brother? He

29:38

was pretty good. Yeah. He was

29:41

pretty cool. My brother, he built

29:43

a scooter from a wooden

29:45

box. And

29:48

so I got to sit in the scooter. Ride

29:50

with him. And ride with him, because you had

29:52

the scooter and then you had this

29:55

long sort of piece of wood

29:57

that you put a roller skate at

29:59

the bottom. wheels from the building. Yes, so here

30:01

and in the front. So

30:03

I would sit in and he would, we

30:06

would go everywhere. He was like, I'd be

30:08

in there and he'd be like going down

30:10

the street and I'd go, where are we

30:12

going? He said, don't ask. And I mean,

30:14

he, my brother had theme

30:17

music. Really? Yeah,

30:19

he was that cool. He was that cool. Because

30:21

you know, women loved him. I

30:24

could tell why. We could never. There were pictures

30:26

in the book. Yeah, he, I mean they would,

30:30

and he loved them back by the way. He

30:32

loved them back. And he was, he was, he

30:35

was a lot. He was fun. Well, we'll be,

30:37

this feels funny saying this to you, but we're

30:39

going to keep you here. And we're going to

30:41

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30:43

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are back talking about Whoopi's new memoir, Bits

32:47

and Pieces. Now, Whoopi, I want to start

32:49

out with you always knew you wanted to

32:51

be an actor, and you performed your one-woman

32:54

show, which was directed by Mike Nichols, which

32:56

then led to you getting your first Oscar

32:58

nomination for the role of Celie in Steven

33:00

Spielberg's The Color Purple. Now,

33:04

you often talk about your reverence for

33:06

these two men changing the course of your

33:08

life. Tell us about that. Well,

33:10

you know, this is going to sound crazy, but

33:13

two of the most extraordinary

33:16

white entertainers in

33:20

terms of the things they put out, Mike

33:22

and his movies, Steven and his movies, gathered

33:26

me up and said, you have what

33:28

it takes. And so

33:30

whether people hired me or not

33:33

was not as important as being told

33:36

by the best that I

33:38

was good enough. And I belonged there.

33:40

I did believe that. I did believe

33:42

that. I did. Because my mother told

33:44

me. My mother told me I

33:46

was pretty good, too. You know, I was raised by

33:48

somebody who said, listen, you

33:50

need to make sure that you recognize your

33:53

worth because no one is

33:55

going to tell you your worth. You

33:57

have to you have to tell yourself and don't let

33:59

other people. people tell you not to do

34:01

that. Because unless you have that, you

34:04

can't sustain it. So you have to believe

34:06

it. And I believed

34:08

it about myself. Which is

34:10

wonderful. Which was great. Wonderful school that a parent

34:12

can give a child. I

34:15

also love where you write about, we

34:17

shouldn't give it all away, but where you write about you're

34:19

on Broadway and your mother's bringing all

34:21

the little biddies that

34:23

didn't really like her. But

34:25

she was kind. She

34:27

was kind enough to bring them. But I wanna

34:29

ask you about the Oscar that you did win.

34:31

Yes. For playing Oda May

34:34

in Ghost. Whoo! And

34:39

you write about how all of a sudden, you're

34:42

surrounded by all the famous people who

34:44

made the movies you had watched as

34:47

a kid, had loved most of your

34:49

life. Even kind of

34:51

learned from, trained, you

34:53

know, they trained you. You even used

34:55

to write Oscar speeches as a child.

34:59

Was that night full circle

35:01

for you? I think we all

35:03

remember seeing you up there, thinking,

35:06

yes! But what were you thinking?

35:08

I was thinking, isn't this something?

35:12

I'll tell you really. You were genuinely excited. I

35:14

was, listen, I loved the Oscars. I

35:16

still love the Oscars. Because at

35:19

their core, it is about

35:22

your ability. If

35:24

you're an actor, you have actors saying, yeah, I

35:26

liked what you did. If

35:29

you're somebody who does costumes, it's the

35:31

costume people saying, your costumes were hot

35:33

this year. I mean, we

35:36

are congratulating other people in our fields

35:40

and saying, you did good work. And people

35:42

need to hear that. I

35:45

know it's not hip to say, yeah,

35:48

I wanted that. Because that told

35:50

me that I had reached a pinnacle

35:52

which I had always hoped for as

35:54

a little kid. And I tell you,

35:57

if your kids start reading

35:59

speech. is that they've written Let Him Do It. Yeah.

36:01

Let Him Do It. Because my

36:04

brother would go, ugh. Not

36:06

that speech again. And then there

36:08

he was with me. Yeah, he

36:11

was there with me. He did it with

36:13

I'd Like to Think, the Academy. It

36:16

did, but you know who I actually wanted

36:18

to make sure I thanked? Was

36:20

the women I was nominated with.

36:22

Yeah, oh, the Losing Group. Because those

36:25

women, we all decided that

36:27

whoever won was gonna take

36:29

everybody else to lunch. And

36:32

so I had them, I got

36:35

permission to create a

36:38

gold foil Oscars. Because

36:40

you know, Oscar doesn't let you do things.

36:42

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I was able to do that

36:44

and have that for them. Those women were extraordinary

36:46

and wonderful. Are you saying goodbye to

36:48

me? Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. He

36:51

continues to wave at you. Right? He

36:53

didn't tell me that. I just noticed that. Okay, so

36:56

yeah. Well for all the, this

36:58

should be a big teaser for this book because it

37:00

is a fast read that you won't be able to

37:02

put down. And even if you think you know her,

37:04

you don't know it all. So her book, Bits

37:06

and Pieces comes out next Tuesday, May 7th, and everyone

37:09

in the studio audience is holding up a

37:11

concert. All of the different

37:13

things are in honor. It's the same as the

37:15

audio version of the book. And he

37:17

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welcome back. Today is Asian

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American and Pacific Islander Heritage

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Month, which celebrates the generations

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And today happens to be May Day, also

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please welcome all the

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