Whoopi Goldberg admits she would quit ‘The View’ if she had more money

The view Star and Oscar-winning icon Whoopi Goldberg is fighting for her paycheck like the rest of America, thank you very much.

One day before her 69th birthday Spirit actress and view Co-host said on Tuesday’s live show that she identifies with the struggles of the working class and that if she were the richest person in the world, she would no longer show up to host the long-running ABC talk show.

“I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me too. I work to make a living,” Goldberg said, resolving growing tension over Donald Trump’s second term as president that arose during a “Hot Topic” about Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio. Cortez asks her social media followers about her voting practices.

Goldberg then turned to the studio audience and emphasized, “If I had all the money in the world, I wouldn’t be here, okay?” So I’m a working person, you know?”

“My child has to feed his family. My great-granddaughter has to be fed by her family. I know it’s hard out there,” she continued. “I love something [Ocasio-Cortez] did. Yes. We talk to people all the time who say, “That’s what bothers me.” But what bothers everyone shouldn’t be what puts 85 percent of other people in danger. I think that’s what we’re saying.”

The moment was reminiscent of previous comments from former co-host Meghan McCain about what she said was a disconnect between the show’s programming and the audience watching.

“I had an experience when I worked at ABC News [on The View]. I was in a particularly heated Hot Topics meeting. I remember yelling at the meeting, “Some of you” or “You’re all going to have to start interacting with people who don’t make $100,000 or more a year.” “You have to interact with someone who is on pays a minimum wage at one level or another,” McCain said in April.

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Aside from OG panelist Joy Behar, who was absent from Tuesday’s broadcast, Goldberg is the show’s longest-running permanent co-host, having first joined the show in 2007.

In addition to her time on the show, Goldberg hasn’t skimped on her acting skills, having appeared in several major projects in recent years, including television shows like The stand, Harlemand returned as Guinan for two episodes of Star Trek: Picard.

She is also currently working on bringing something Sister law 3 to Disney+ after revealing during an interview with Jimmy Fallon last week that the script had to be reworked following the death of Maggie Smith, who apparently would have returned for the third film in the series.

The view airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.