Whoopi Goldberg is reportedly ‘having a hard time’ financially and cannot afford to retire.
The 69-year-old said on her CBS talk show: ‘If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, OK? So, I’m a working person, you know?,’
Her most recent salary is not publicly known but it was reported in 2016 that her salary was between $5-6 million.
After a discussion surrounding Donald Trump being voted in as president-elect, Goldberg said: ‘I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work for a living,’
‘My kid has to feed her family. My great-granddaughter has to be fed by her family. I know it’s hard out there.’
‘We talk to people all the time who say, “This is what’s bothering me.” But the thing that’s bothering everybody should not be the thing that puts 85% of other people in danger. I think that’s what we’re saying,’
She continued: ‘The folks that own the groceries are pigs,’. ‘Your pocketbook is bad, not because the Bidens did anything. Not because the economy is bad. Your grocery bills are what they are because the folks that own the groceries are pigs,’
The actress made a pledge in 2016 to never say Trump’s name and she continues to stick to her promise.
In 2018, she admitted that she ‘can’t’ bear to say his name or call him ‘President’.
Her co-host, Sunny Hostin, also shared her frustration and blamed white women and Latino men:
‘I think [Trump’s victory] had nothing to do with policy, I think this was a referendum on cultural resentment in this country,’
‘Black women tried to save this country again, last night… what we do not have is white women, who voted about 52 per cent for Donald Trump – uneducated white women is my understanding.’
She added: ‘You have Latino men actually, voting more for him.’
