
Oprah Winfrey believed Whoopi Goldberg "had issues with her" since "The Color Purple," which led her to disconnect from her former co-star, Newsweek noted. In a video shared on the Oprah website, Winfrey admitted that she often turned down her team's ideas of having Goldberg on her show or any other collaboration with the actor and "The View" moderator. "I'd say, 'Don't bother Whoopi. I don't think she wants to have anything to do with me,'" Winfrey said.
Goldberg was apparently going through a similar thought process. Speaking on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2010, Winfrey described how the two finally addressed the elephant in the room while eating collard greens at Tyler Perry's house that summer. It was a "divine moment" for Winfrey. "Whoopi came up to me and she said ... 'Can I just ask you something? Did I do something to you?' And I said, 'What are you talking about?' And she says, 'All these years, you know, we've been disconnected, and I just want to know, did I do something?'" Winfrey said, tearing up as she remembered the moment.
Winfrey was shocked. She had the same reaction. "All these years I thought you were mad at me," Winfrey recalled. Goldberg hypothesized that, because they weren't close, the media assumed something was going on. If Goldberg had ill feelings toward Winfrey, she would have been clear about it, she assured Winfrey. "I don't hide my stuff. You know, I don't play that," Goldberg said.
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