Whoopi Goldberg leaves ‘The View’ table to show feeling ‘drunk’ over election ‘madness’

Goldberg used her Oscar-winning acting skills to top the day’s Hot Topics.

Whoopi Goldberg turned around View into the performance space Wednesday morning as she left her seat at the Hot Topics table to demonstrate that she was feeling “intoxicated” by the frenzy of the 2024 election.

The 68-year-old actress put her Oscar-winning acting skills to good use when she performed a hybrid of interpretive dance and full-body stage spectacle, all of which deliberately referenced a scene from the 1967 film. Valley of the Dolls.

Goldberg began her theatrical opus after the show aired the Veep segment. Kamala HarrisTuesday night’s speech at the U.S. Capitol in which she called for American unity and said she would be a president for all people – even those who don’t vote for her.

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“This is what you wanted to hear. You are willing to work with both sides. Fine. Anything to stop this madness. I don’t think you ever saw Valley of the DollsGoldberg said, addressing the audience before standing up from her seat to illustrate her point with fluid movements. Valley of the Dollsgirl, she has a broken heart, she drinks in the forest and walks like this.

Goldberg then pretended to trip over a fellow host. Sarah Haynes as she reenacted the scene.

“That’s how I feel. I feel like I’m just walking down the street drunk. I don’t know if it’s starting to get to you, but that’s what’s happening to me,” she said in a distinctly artistic manner. a statement explaining her work.

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Goldberg is a longtime advocate for her release. View a chair like she once did walked off the set during the 2023 discussion about country singer Miranda Lambert, and two months later walked away from the table to the big screen on the back of the seat to study the image of the alien body displayed on the monitor.

“This is not a puppet. This does not seem to be the case. I mean, she’s definitely dead,” Goldberg said at the time.

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