Whoopi Goldberg, real name Caryn Elaine Johnson, is under fire for making false Holocaust claims. On Tuesday, Celebrity Whoopi Goldberg apologized for repeating her claim in a recent interview that the Holocaust was not about race, as calls grew for ABC to fire her from The View.
Whoopi Goldberg issued a statement clarifying her position on the matter.
“I was recently asked about my comments from earlier this year while doing press in London,” the 67-year-old said in a statement to E! News on Dec. 27. “I attempted to recount that time and convey to the reporter what I had said and why.”
According to Goldberg’s statement, “It was never my intention to appear to be doubling down on hurtful remarks, especially after speaking with and hearing from people like rabbis and old and new friends. I’m still learning a lot, and trust me when I say that I heard everything everyone said to me.”
“I am as sorry now as I was then for upsetting, hurting, and angering people,” the statement concluded. “Please accept my heartfelt apologies once more, especially to anyone who mistook this for a new discussion of the subject. I assure you, it was not. In this time of rising antisemitism, I want to be very clear that I have always stood with the Jewish people and will continue to do so.”
Excerpt from Adolf Hitler’s letter on ‘the dangers currently presented by Jewry to our nation’ from 16 September 1919.
This text is one of the first major statements made by Hitler with regard to the Jewish question. pic.twitter.com/t56oHRWm2w
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) December 26, 2022
Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO, who previously accepted Goldberg’s February apology, spoke out against the “Till” star’s latest remarks, calling them “deeply offensive.”
“Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust and race are incredibly disappointing,” he said in a statement to “The Wrap” on December 27. “At a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States, she should understand that making such ignorant statements can have real consequences.”
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