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Whoopi Goldberg returned to The View on Monday after a two-week absence.
The EGOT-winning actress previously confirmed she’d be off the air for a bit.
Goldberg was in Italy to film a role on the Italian soap opera Un Posto Al Sole.
Whoopi Goldberg returned to The View‘s Hot Topics table bearing tales of a cold, dreary Italian locale.
The Oscar-winning actress and talk show moderator returned to her post on the program Monday, ending a two-week absence, after Entertainment Weekly previously reported that she’d booked a role on the Italian soap opera Un Posto Al Sole and would miss broadcasts of The View as a result.
Goldberg explained details of her absence to her cohosts across her first time back on the air in weeks, announcing, “So, Alyssa [Farah Griffin] is out today, and I am back today! Back from Italy!”
The audience applauded, while Ana Navarro joked, “I think this bitch has forgotten to speak English.”
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Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin on ‘The View’
The Ghost and Sister Act star admitted that she didn’t “know what language I’m thinking in, or what time zone I’m in,” but celebrated the role on the region’s longest-running soap as a “really good” time.
“I learned a lot, because I’d never done a soap opera before, and so doing a soap opera in a different language, in a different country, made for a really interesting time,” Goldberg said. “It was great. I sent you guys stuff all through, because I wanted you to know I was actually working. I was gone for two weeks in Naples, Italy. It rained every day.”
She described the weather as “rain, rain, storm, thunder,” and called it “crazy” to work in.
“Starring in a fake soap opera sounds so much better than living in the real one,” Navarro joked of Goldberg’s overseas venture, before the actress corrected her.
“One doesn’t ever stop living in the real one. I didn’t need to take it with me, because everyone there is aware,” she said of the current political status in the United States. “But you know, this is the thing about other countries, they’ve lived through this. They’ve gone through this, they know what this is like, and they’re just biding their time, saying, when the people decide enough is enough, it will be enough.”
Perhaps Goldberg will one day have a hand in shaping foreign relations, as she announced on The View’s Behind the Table podcast last month that she had ambitions to hold a political position in the future.
“I know this is the craziest thing ever, and it will never happen while [The View] is going on, but I still want to represent our country in another country,” Goldberg told producer Brian Teta on the podcast. “I’ve always wanted to me an ambassador.”
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Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Whoopi Goldberg for ‘The View’
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She elaborated, telling Teta, “I think there are terrific things about this country. I know we’re not perfect, and there’s a lot of stuff we’ve got to fix. It’s what I’ve always said: There are great things about us and terrible things about us. We fix what we can, and sometimes we fix it really well, and sometimes we don’t fix it well enough.”
The View airs weekdays on ABC.
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