Whoopi Goldbergwants to set the record straight about thatheated battlewithJeanine Pirroon Thursday’s episode ofThe View.
“Things got hot on the air, which you expect happens a lot but I want to clear up what happened afterward,” Goldberg, 62, said at the beginning of Friday’s episode of the ABC talk show. “Because she talked about it onFox Newslast night andFox & Friendsthis morning, onThe Fiveor whatever it is, but she seemed to leave out some key points because well, she left a lot of pertinent stuff out.”
Goldberg went on to revisit what happened during Pirro’s appearance, which escalated when the conservativeJustice with Judge Jeaninestar told the liberal comedian she has “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
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Pirro, a former Republican candidate, told Fox News’Sean Hannitylater on Thursday that Goldberg spit in her face and cursed her out after the interaction.
“She came at me as I was leaving and she said ‘Eff you’ in my face — literally spitting at me: ‘Eff you, get the eff out of this building,'” Pirrosaidon Hannity’s radio show. “And I said to her, ‘Did you just say that?’ She said, ‘That’s what I said, Get the eff out of this building’ and she was screaming at me and I’m walking out of the building like a dog who was just kicked off.”
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Goldberg admitted that during the backstage spat with Pirro, 67, she said “a few choice words I cannot repeat,” but refuted the judge’s other allegations.
“Yes, I did say it. I did say it,” Goldberg continued onThe Viewon Friday. “But I did not spit on her. I did not intimidate her. No one chased her out of here saying get out. But she did leave her cursing at the people who book the show. She cursed at the guys who do the security for the show. I did say to her in the middle of all of this, ‘You and I have never had a problem before.’ And then had to go back to work to finish the show, which should tell you none of us were chasing her because we still had another segment to do.”
Ultimately, Goldberg wished Pirro the best with her new bookLiars, Leakers and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy, which she had come onThe Viewto promote. “Jeanine, good luck with your book,” she said. “I hear it’s No 1. I preferred your last book about Robert Durst, but there’s no accounting for taste.”
The Viewairs weekdays on ABC at 11 a.m. ET.
source: people.com
