Whoopi Goldberg cheerfully confessed she bar hops as a way to fulfill her sexual needs.
On Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” Goldberg noted, “A woman wrote an article in Cosmopolitan, admitting that she fantasizes about being single even though she’s in a very happy longterm relationship.”
“She writes that sometimes, she finds herself missing the days of casual flings and bar-hopping,” Goldberg continued as the audience giggled.
The “Ghost” actress then turned to her co-hosts for a reaction, to which Joy Behar responded, “Do you miss those days?”
Goldberg quipped, “I am single,” adding, “Yeah, I bar hop, I go hang! And I do hit and runs when I need it.”
She noted, “I am not married to anybody, I don’t have responsibility.” She then asked guest co-host Sara Eisen if she’s married, which she confirmed.
“Okay, so you four have responsibilities,” Goldberg said, referring to Behar, Eisen, Sara Haines and Ana Navarro. “And the question is, do you ever miss the single life?”
Haines quipped that she does miss the single life, but not over bar hopping — she misses “a binge where I can sit and eat ice cream and no one’s watching, and watch whatever I damn want.”
“I love being the center of my own world,” Haines joked, while Navaroo hilariously confessed that “it’s a good life” when husband Al Cárdenas is away.
This isn’t the first time the “Sister Act” star has declared her preference for the single life.
“I am fundamentally a selfish person and I’ve found that because I have a wonderful kid and a son-in-law and three grandkids and one great-grand[kid], that I don’t have time for a whole lot of other people coming into my life,” she said during a May 2024 appearance on “The Don Lemon Show.”
“Hit and runs are great, I don’t mind those,” she divulged. “But, you can’t spend the night.” When asked by Lemon if her hookups “still happen,” Goldberg replied, “oh yeah.”
Addressing the stigma of not wanting a traditional committed relationship, Goldberg said she needed to give herself “permission” to own those feelings.
“You have this whole line of words that are stacked up in your head about what you are if you say a hit and run is where you want to be and you don’t want to be married,” she explained.
“What I didn’t realize was that I had figured it out,” the TV personality went on. “I just was surprised by the fact that I didn’t really want it, but I liked to hit and run. And my mother said, ‘well maybe you should just throw a party from now and on and not get married anymore.’”
Goldberg, 70, didn’t hold back when telling Lemon that she doesn’t have patience for the “give and take” of marriage. “It requires a lot,” the “Color Purple” star said. “I want to see you when I see you and then you go.”
The actress was thrice married — to Alvin Martin, with whom she shares daughter Alexandra, from 1973 to 1979; to David Claessen from 1986 to 1988; and to Lyle Trachtenberg, from 1994 to 1995.
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