The View host Whoopi Goldberg has claimed she “can’t afford” to retire from the hit talk show — blaming her three failed marriages for her need to continue working.

Goldberg, 69, whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson, put an end to rumours she is set to end her 18-season run on the daytime series, insisting she has no choice but to carry on her hosting duties if she wants to pay her bills.

The Oscar-winning actress — who has a net worth of $US20 million ($A30.2 million) — told Entertainment Tonight because she did not “marry well”, she is forced to carry on making her own living.

“If you don’t marry well, you got to keep working,” the TV host, who has been married three times, said.

When the reporter suggested Goldberg “could probably afford” to retire thanks to her longtime Hollywood career, the TV host replied: “No, not by now. Not yet. I gotta keep paying those bills, baby.”

Although Goldberg insists she hasn’t earned enough money to retire, she does boast a small property fortune when compared to the average person.

It includes a sizeable mansion that is one of a host of properties the actress has bought and sold over the years, Realtor reports.

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Whoopi Goldberg has confessed that she “can’t afford” to retire. Picture: Jose Alvarado JR./American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. via Getty Images

However, her life has not always been quite so glamorous or lavish, beginning in a small unit in the Chelsea-Elliott Houses in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbourhood.

“My room was in the back, just a bed and a bureau and windows.,” she previously told Vulture of her childhood abode.

“It’s a great place to grow up, because we were outside 98 per cent of the time, winter and summer.

“We all were poor, and we all knew it, but it somehow didn’t really stop us from doing anything.”

Goldberg lived there until moving to California when she got married to Alvin Martin in 1973 at the age of 18. They welcomed a daughter, Alexandra Martin, in 1974.

Goldberg relocated to Berkeley in the ‘70s and held down many jobs before she made it big.

The 69-year-old admitted that she won’t be leaving behind her talk show duties anytime soon. Picture: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

In the ‘80s, she snapped up a Victorian-style home for $US335,000 ($A506,000) and had a two-storey barn.

She held that property for 30 years before selling it for $US2 million ($A3 million) in 2015.

During her ownership of that home, Goldberg, who split from her first husband in 1979, was married two more times — first to David Claessen in 1986, a marriage that lasted just two years, and then to Lyle Trachtenberg in 1994.

She divorced Trachtenberg in 1995 — and has since stated she never wants to marry again.

“Some people are not meant to be married and I am not meant to. I’m sure it is wonderful for lots of people,” she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2010.

Goldberg doubled down on that concept in 2016, when she told the New York Times she values her personal space too much to share it with another person.

“I’m much happier on my own,” she explained.

“I can spend as much time with somebody as I want to spend, but I’m not looking to be with somebody forever or live with someone.

“I don’t want somebody in my house.”

Goldberg’s relationship with real estate has been much more concrete than her romantic ties — with the actress going on to add several other properties to her portfolio after purchasing her first house.

Goldberg’s main residence is a New Jersey mansion she snapped up in 2009 for $US2.8 million. Picture: Google Maps

In the ‘90s, she snapped up an expansive Pacific Palisades property, this time paying $US2.5 million ($A3.7 million).

Goldberg kept that dwelling for 25 years before offloading it for $US8.8 million ($A13.2 million) in 2018.

In 2003, the TV host set her sights on a Vermont getaway with four bedrooms, and 3.5 bathrooms. She sold the property in 2012 for $US1.5 million ($A2.2 million).

In 2007, she picked up a full-floor loft in SoHo for $US4 million ($A6 million). However, she sold it in 2010 for just under $US3 million ($A4.5 million).

Goldberg’s main residence is a New Jersey mansion that she snapped up in 2009 for $US2.8 million ($A4.2 million). The home, which was built in 1927, boasts eight bedrooms.

Parts of this story first appeared in Realtor and was republished with permission.

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