Whoopi Goldberg will be off “The View” for two weeks to work on a new project.
The actress, who has been on the ABC talk show for nearly 20 years, confirmed her upcoming absence on the “Behind the Table” podcast Wednesday.
“We’re going to lose you for a couple of days,” producer Brian Teta said during the episode. “You’re going to be gone over the next two weeks.”
He clarified that Goldberg, 70, will be around on Mondays, with former co-hosts Lisa Ling, Star Jones, Sherri Shepherd and Debbie Matenopoulos filling in the other days.
Meanwhile, Joy Behar will moderate the Hot Topics roundtable along with the rest of her Season 30 crew — Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin — while Winfrey films “Women Like Us.”
The movie, produced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, will also star Vivica A. Fox, Vanessa Williams and Jennifer Lewis.
“It’s about change and getting older and having fun with your friends and people who get you,” Goldberg gushed of the movie. “It’s about finding your people. I’m excited to do it. It’ll be fun.”
She went on to praise her “really wonderful” co-stars.
Reps for Goldberg and “The View” did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Goldberg has taken leaves of absence from “The View” before to work to act in the “Un Posto Al Sole” Italian soap opera, the “Anansi Boys” series and more.
The EGOT winner explained to “Baby, This Is Keke Palmer” podcast listeners last month how she’s managed to do other projects in her 19 years on “The View” despite people thinking she “can’t do anything.”
The comedian clarified, “I constantly say to people, ‘Yes, I’m still open for this.’ … If I need to go, I go.”
At the time, Goldberg also hinted at her hefty salary, which Page Six Hollywood recently reported was a mid-seven figures and the highest of the group.
“You would be shocked,” she said during the August interview. “As soon as they showed you that check, you’d be like, ‘What the!?’”
Goldberg said she doesn’t make as much with her acting gigs, saying, “If I had that kind of money — and I love my job — I don’t know that I’d still be doing [‘The View’].”
She quipped, “A girl’s gotta eat, and I never married well, so, I still have to support myself!”
Her new project, Goldberg revealed Tuesday, involved learning how to do yoga on a paddleboard.
“I’m determined to do it because there are those who didn’t think I would,” she said. “I do most of the things that I do because I know people are not waiting for me to fail, but they’re waiting for me to bail.”
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