Talk about a hot topic! Whoopi Goldberg dished about how she’s been branded “rude” during interviews over the years, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The View moderator, 69, opened up about the subject during the Thursday, October 9, episode of the ABC daytime show. The confession came as the panel discussed California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter‘s controversial interview, during which she was branded “egotistically arrogant” and “unhinged” toward a reporter.

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Lone conservative panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin defended CBS reporter Julie Watts’ line of questioning, during which Porter, 51, threatened to walk out, claiming she was upset after being asked too many follow-up questions.

“We’ve all had bad days. People can find me being rude. But that was a journalist asking totally fair questions for our job. If you can’t answer those, you can’t be governor. She did sit through the rest of the interview and eventually finished it but that’s the job to represent 39 million people in the state,” Griffin, 36, explained.

Goldberg fired back, “Well, you know, because I have done this, I have been rude to people, I have said to journalists, ‘No, this is what, this is my answer,’ and they’ll say, ‘No, but I’ve asked other people.’ I say, ‘No, no, this is what I’m telling you.”

“I’ve been rude, and that’s my point,” the Ghost star huffed.

Sara Haines jumped in to say about Porter, “I would expect something different from her,” while Goldberg once again went to bat for the former congresswoman’s abrasive behavior.

“No, she’s just another human being. I’m sorry, they’re all human beings,” the Sister Act star said in Porter’s defense before cutting things off to take a commercial break.