‘The View’s Whoopi Goldberg Says Her Mom Called Her “Dumb” For Getting Married: “She Was Right — All Three Times”

Some people just don’t want to get married — and Whoopi Goldberg was one of those people, despite going through with three weddings. On this morning’s episode of The View, the longtime moderator revealed the “dumb” reason she tied the knot so many times even though she didn’t want to.

According to a new survey Goldberg read during the Hot Topics segment, 20% of newlyweds admitted they got cold feet at the last minute and nearly ducked out before the ceremony.

“Did you have any eleventh-hour panic? Yeah,” Goldberg confessed, to which Joy Behar asked, “Every single time, right?”

The EGOT recipient — who was previously married to drug counselor Alvin Martin in the 1970s, director David Claessen in the 1980s and actor Lyle Trachtenberg in the 1990s — confirmed to Behar that she hesitated to go through with her wedding ceremonies.

“My mother said to me, ‘Just get in the car. I can see you don’t want to do this,'” Goldberg recalled. “I said, ‘I know I don’t. But I invited all these people who spent all this money and I gotta go through with it.’ She said, ‘That’s dumb.’ And she was right — all three times.”

Goldberg previously told her co-hosts that she was “so glad” to end her marriages on a September 2023 episode of The View.

“I thought I could make a round hole go into a square peg,” she said at the time. “I thought that was what was for me. I was never meant to be married. I know that and I knew that then. I kept trying to do what everybody said I was supposed to do. And then it was like, ‘This is getting expensive and boring.'”

However, Goldberg wasn’t the only one at the table with a failed marriage.

“I was so traumatized by the first one that I waited 29 years to do the second one,” Behar said during today’s broadcast. “The first time I was very young, I was 22. We felt older in those days than we do now because people did not live as long back in those days.”

The comedian then described her first wedding as a “performance.”

“It was like entertaining my aunts and uncles and I did the certain kind of dance, I picked a song that I knew they would like — ‘It Had To Be You’ [by Frank Sinatra]. I should’ve picked, ‘Help!’ [by The Beatles],'” Behar quipped.

The View airs on weekdays 11/10c on ABC.