Whoopi Goldberg Reveals She Once ‘Flirted’ With Suicide

“The View” co-host opened up to CNN’s Anderson Cooper about the question she asked herself after she thought “about leaving.”

Whoopi Goldberg reflected on coping with the deaths of her mother, Emma Johnson, and brother, Clyde Johnson, before revealing that she “once flirted” with suicide during a recent interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

“The View” co-host, in an episode for Cooper’s “All There Is” podcast, was asked about an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, “Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother and Me,” in which she wrote that she occasionally felt like asking, “Why did y’all leave me here?”

Goldberg ― whose mother died in 2010 after she suffered a stroke and whose brother died five years later due to a brain aneurysm ― noted that the answer to the question is “’cause we have stuff we gotta get done,” adding that our children and grandchildren “need to know us.”

“And I once flirted, once flirted with, thinking about leaving,” Goldberg said.

“And then I thought, ‘How? What a terrible thing that would be to do to my kid, to knowingly do to my kid who actually likes me.’”