Whoopi Goldberg blew her mother’s ashes into water at Disneyland’s It’s a Small World ride
nypost.comWhoopi Goldberg’s mother on the classic It’s a Small World ride.Goldberg disclosed that she and her late brother, Clyde, spread her mother’s ashes inside the beloved Disney attraction shortly after she died in 2010.“No one should do this.
Don’t do it,” Goldberg, 68, cautioned during the July 10 episode of “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”“She loved Small World. So, in the Small World ride, periodically, I’d scoop some of her up and I’d do this poof, and I said, ‘My God, this cold is getting worse and worse!’ And then we got over to the flowers where it says, ‘Disneyland’ and I was like, ‘Oh, look at that!
Poof.’” Goldberg later informed the park officials of her actions to ensure they were safe and appropriate.“I told them I did it.
I wanted to make sure, actually, that I hadn’t done something that was dangerous, because it hadn’t occurred to me. But there’s a reason they don’t want ashes just floating around,” she said.The Oscar-winning actress previously described spreading her mother’s ashes in her memoir, “Bits and Pieces,” which was released in May. “It was her vision of what human beings should be, these children of the world: all colors, religions, and cultures together.
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