Whoopi Goldberg griped that she’s too poor to retire — despite sitting on a reported $20 million nest egg — and insiders say ABC executives are so fed up with The View host’s repeated on-and off-air gaffes that they may be close to pulling the plug on her 18-year reign.
While ratings remain high at the all-gal talk show, sources say network executives were stung by the thrice-divorced Whoopi revealing to Entertainment Tonight, “If you don’t marry well, you gotta keep working.”
The comment comes months after a similarly shocking statement. Whoopi, who is said to earn $8 million annually as one of the highest-paid women on TV, shared on-air in November 2024: “I appreciate that people are having a hard time.” Then Whoopi said, “Me, too — I work for a living! If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, OK? So, I’m a working person, you know?”
An ABC insider says of the 69-year-old’s latest blunder, “It’s tone-deaf. Everyday people are struggling, and Whoopi’s crying poor on daytime TV. It makes her look completely out of touch.”
However, Whoopi’s latest remarks are just the tip of the iceberg.
As the National Enquirer reported, Whoopi was suspended from The View for two weeks in February 2022 after claiming the Holocaust — in which Nazis killed more than 6 million Jews — was “not about race.”
In June 2025, the Oscar-winning Ghost actress also faced backlash after apparently likening life for Black Americans to that of Iran’s citizens living under the nation’s brutal dictatorship, according to CBN News.
And at other points over The View’s run, Whoopi defended Bill Cosby, who denied the sexual assault allegations of 60-plus women. She insisted any accused are “innocent until proven guilty” before pulling back her support of the comic, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
She also once suggested that Chinatown director Roman Polanski’s 1977 sexual crime against a 13-year-old girl — for which he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor — wasn’t “rape-rape,” per the National Organization for Women.
Now, sources say network bosses are “looking hard at a refresh — maybe even a total overhaul” of The View’s panel.
“Executives are tired of cleaning up her messes,” an insider says. “Patience is running out.”
