Whoopi Goldberg admitted she can sometimes lose her cool with staff, confessing she’s been guilty of “yelling at people” who work for her. The admission came after her View co-hosts debated whether former state Representative Katie Porter should stay in California’s gubernatorial race following leaked videos showing her berating employees. Of the panel, Goldberg was...
Whoopi Goldberg admitted she can sometimes lose her cool with staff, confessing she’s been guilty of “yelling at people” who work for her.
The admission came after her View co-hosts debated whether former state Representative Katie Porter should stay in California’s gubernatorial race following leaked videos showing her berating employees.
Of the panel, Goldberg was clearly the most sympathetic voice — insisting Porter should remain in the running.
Divided panel
After the group watched a clip of Porter responding to criticism about her “temperament,” Goldberg confessed, “Maybe she does yell at people. I yell at people, you yell at people, you yell at people, and sometimes it’s not nice.”
Joy Behar wasn’t quite on the same page. “I only yell at my husband,” she quipped.
While Alyssa Farah Griffin sympathized with women being “held to a different standard in the public sphere,” she wasn’t ready to support Porter staying in the race.
“I think how somebody treats staff under them says so much about their character. We saw the video she berated a staffer in a way I’ve, never in any job in politics, been talked to,” Griffin added.
Goldberg defends Porter
Goldberg came to Porter’s defense, reminding her cohosts that everyone slips up.
“You get caught in the moment and, you know, everybody’s got a camera,” she said. “I’m sorry, I have yelled at people who work for me, I have yelled at people.”
Griffin turned it back on Goldberg, saying she’d never seen her treat anyone the way Porter had in the videos — before daring her co-host to demonstrate. “Do it, Whoopi, do it!”
‘I’m very careful when I yell at people’
Goldberg explained her temper is better hidden from the public. “The reason you don’t see it is because I’m very careful when I yell at people.”
She added that she “used to get really angry with people” who provoked her or were “messing” with her. “I used to get it all the time. I’m not mad at anybody who steps in poo. I’m not.”
Goldberg continued to stand by Porter, who remains the only woman in the race for California governor.
“All I know is, as a human being, I’m subject to the same things she’s subject to. I’m subject to screwing up and messing up and being not the person people want me to be,” she said.
“But, if I’m the right person to run that state and I know what I’m doing, I want you to say, ‘Hey, listen I want you to be better but I want you to run the state.’”
