Whoopi Goldberg Recounts Saving Her Mother's Life From Attempted Suicide As A Young Child
perezhilton.com[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Thank goodness for Whoopi Goldberg‘s incredible bravery and quick thinking when she was just a little kid.
The View co-host is set to release her groundbreaking autobiography next Tuesday. In Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me, Whoopi will recount much of her early life growing up in public housing in New York City alongside her brother Clyde and her mother Emma Johnson.
In the book, of which the US Sun received an advance copy, Whoopi — whose real name is Caryn Johnson — revealed stories about how the family was dirt poor in NYC.
She and Clyde grew up in public housing, and they always struggled for money. But rather than go on welfare, their mother insisted she work as a nurse to provide for the family. Related: Whoopi Defends Princess Catherine’s Photoshop Fail, But… Tragically, one day when Whoopi was in elementary school, she came home in the afternoon after class to find her mom looking “disheveled,” as she wrote in the autobiography.
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