Whoopi Goldberg made an emotional return to The View on March 14, after illness kept her sidelined from the talk show for over a month. Click through the gallery to see the moment she returned and for an update on her health.
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Joy Behar started the show with an update on the 63-year-old’s health. “We're hoping she'll be back here soon, maybe next week. We'll see. Hurry back, Whoopi, and get better,” she said.
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Joy Behar started the show with an update on the 63-year-old’s health. “We're hoping she'll be back here soon, maybe next week. We'll see. Hurry back, Whoopi, and get better,” she said.
At that moment, the Sister Act actress walked out and the crowd burst into applause. The cohosts ran over to her and immediately gave her a group hug.
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“So, this is my first foray out,” Whoopi said about her return. “I am, you know, I'm not there yet, I know that. But, the only way it's going to get better is if I begin, so this is my beginning.”
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Joy, 76, told Whoopi she looked good. “Makeup helps. Makeup helps,” she joked. “I still — I still have a cough and that's the last thing to go apparently. But over the next week and a half I will start to be here more often, but I wanted the first foray to be to come see y'all because I really kind of missed y'all.”
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Meghan, 34, pointed out that Whoopi’s illness was “very, very serious.” The comedian agreed that she was close to death.
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“You think you can push through because you got a little cold. You say, keep going, keep going,” Whoopi explained about her initial hesitancy to get treatment. She ended up having
double pneumonia and sepsis.
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Photo credit: MEGA
Joy Behar started the show with an update on the 63-year-old’s health. “We're hoping she'll be back here soon, maybe next week. We'll see. Hurry back, Whoopi, and get better,” she said.
At that moment, the Sister Act actress walked out and the crowd burst into applause. The cohosts ran over to her and immediately gave her a group hug.
Photo credit: Courtesy ABC
“So, this is my first foray out,” Whoopi said about her return. “I am, you know, I'm not there yet, I know that. But, the only way it's going to get better is if I begin, so this is my beginning.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Joy, 76, told Whoopi she looked good. “Makeup helps. Makeup helps,” she joked. “I still — I still have a cough and that's the last thing to go apparently. But over the next week and a half I will start to be here more often, but I wanted the first foray to be to come see y'all because I really kind of missed y'all.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Meghan, 34, pointed out that Whoopi’s illness was “very, very serious.” The comedian agreed that she was close to death.
“You think you can push through because you got a little cold. You say, keep going, keep going,” Whoopi explained about her initial hesitancy to get treatment. She ended up having
double pneumonia and sepsis.