Whoopi Goldberg has issued a statement clarifying comments she made about Roman Polanski’s weekend arrest in connection with a 32 year old statutory rape case.
Whoopi is facing a fierce backlash after saying that the critically-acclaimed director didn’t commit “rape-rape” when he had unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
“I know it wasn’t rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don’t believe it was rape-rape,” she said on The View Monday. “He pled guilty to having sex with a minor and he went to jail, and when they let him out he said ‘You know what, this guy’s going to give me 100 years in jail. I’m not staying’. And that’s why he left.”
Whoopi went on damage control in a follow-up statement issued Wednesday: “Some people got the idea that I was condoning what he did. I’m going to be very clear: I was trying to make sure we had our facts straight because that’s my job – particularly about what he was arrested for and what he was charged with, which was unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, not rape, which was my point.”
In 1977, Samantha Gailey, then 13, told a grand jury that the director supplied her with champagne and drugs, took nude pictures of her in a hot tub, and then had sex with her, despite her repeated requests to be taken home.
Whoopi Goldberg has been branded a “rape apologist” for suggesting Roman Polanski’s sex with a 13 year old girl three decades ago was not “rape-rape”.
The director was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday and is currently fighting extradition to the US over his 1977 conviction for unlawful sex with a minor. Polanski admitted having sex with former model Samantha Gremier, the 13, at the Hollywood mansion of Jack Nicholson. The critically-acclaimed director fled the US before he was sentenced, claiming the judge in the case reneged on a plea bargain deal. He later settled in France. Read the rest of this entry »
Whoopi Goldberg is firing back at Three’s Company star Suzanne Somers for comments the actress made alleging the chemotherapy Patrick Swayze used to treat his pancreatic cancer ultimately killed him.
The Dirty Dancing star died last week after a nearly two year battle with the disease. Shortly after, Somers came under fire for comments she made about Swayze in an interview with Toronto’s National Post. Read the rest of this entry »
Whoopi Goldberg has released a statement following the death of Ghost co-star and friend Patrick Swayze. Sadly, the beloved Hollywood actor, whose good looks and sympathetic performances in films like Dirty Dancing, made him a romantic idol, died Monday evening after a nearly two year battle with pancreatic cancer.
“Patrick was a really good man, a funny man and one to whom I owe much that I can’t ever repay,” Whoopi’s statement reads. “I believe in ‘Ghost’s’ message, so he’ll always be near.”
Goldberg and Swayze, along with Demi Moore, starred in the 1990 blockbuster Ghost. Goldberg won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her as sharp-tongued medium Oda Mae Brown. Read the rest of this entry »
Whoopi Goldberg lit into The Hills’ Heidi and Spencer Pratt on The View Monday after the couple revealed they had not read their contract prior to joining the NBC reality show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!. Mama Whoopi warned the newlyweds that stupid moves like that could cost them much more than public ridicule in the years to come.
“As much business as you guys have done, you with the hairspray and the cleaning stuff and everything that you’re doing, you better get yourself together or you’re gonna be in the street,” Whoopi said. “You’re gonna have to take responsibility. You’re too old now. See, last year was cute. Now, you’re adults.”
In response, Spencer said from now on he and the wife will read all of their contracts.
“We do have a lot of things that we’re planning,” Heidi chimed in. “We do have a future.”
The usually levelheaded Whoopi Goldberg unleashed her inner Native New Yorker on conservative commentator Glen Beck on The View Wednesday.
The Oscar-winning star coined a new catchphrase on today’ show, calling Beck a “lying sack of dog mess” after the host of The Glen Beck Program publicly lied about his chance meeting with Whoopi and View creator Barbara Walters on an Amtrak train last week.
As Sister Act: The Musical prepares to take the West End stage this summer, Whoopi Goldberg will have to hit the friendly skies en route London–and that means she’ll have to conquer her fear of flying.
So on The View Wednesday, Whoopi underwent a special course, courtesy of Virgin Atlantic boss Sir Richard Branson, to help the funnywoman overcome her fear.
Do you think it worked? Check out these videos from today’s show.
If you weren’t glued to the small screen last Friday, you missed quite an event on The View. Resident voice of reason Whoopi Goldberg popped her cork on the air over last week’s issue TV Guide, which featured a bitter critique of the Oscar-winner’s questionable sense of style. Read the rest of this entry »
