Whoopi Goldberg has apologized after being criticized for using a derogatory term on “The View”. The actress shared a video message via the show’s official Twitter profile after she faced backlash for using the word “gy***d” when discussing how some Donald Trump supporters felt after his loss in the 2020 election, Entertainment Weekly reported.
Goldberg then said in her apology video, “You know, when you’re a certain age, you use words that you know from when you were a kid or you remember saying. “And that’s what I did today, and I shouldn’t have.” READ MORE: Whoopi Goldberg’s Absence From ‘The View’ For Third Consecutive Day, Explained Goldberg continued, “I should have thought about it a little longer before I said it, but I didn’t.
I should have said ‘cheated,’ and I used another word, and I’m really, really sorry.” The slur is considered to be racist and derogatory towards people of Romani heritage and culture, with it deriving from the word “gypsy.” Goldberg’s latest apology comes after she faced backlash over some comments she made about the Holocaust in an interview with The Sunday Times in December.
She’d previously been suspended from “The View” for two weeks in February last year after commenting on the Holocaust and the role of race in the genocide.
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