After her co-hosts express their remorse, Whoopi Goldberg close the segment by doubling down on what she'd told her co-hosts when she declined to participate in a discussion about Middleton on the March 19 broadcast.
- Mar 26, 2024
AceShowbiz - "The View" hosts wished they didn't fuel conspiracy theories surrounding Kate Middleton last week. Now that they've learned the royal has been battling cancer, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg expressed their remorse in the Monday, March 25 episode of the daytime talk show.
"I'm guilty of having gotten into the fun of 'Where's Kate?' and thinking it's funny and sharing the memes and playing into that," Griffin said. "And I forgot something fundamental that we all know: every person, whether they're a princess, somebody in a high-privileged position, or just the person next to you, is dealing with personal struggles that we don't know about."
Griffin then sent her "love to her and strength" to Middleton. She added, "Sure, the Palace totally mishandled the PR of this, but the public mishandled it.... I didn't think [that] there's something more serious here that she's dealing with. I feel awful over it."
Calling Middleton's diagnosis "heart-wrenching" development, Haines continued, "You just never know what someone is going through. I've always questioned the way the Royal Family handles women, whether it was Princess Diana or Fergie or Meghan Markle." She noted, "I was not blaming Kate for what was going on, it really bothered me the way it was handled - whether it was my business or not could be debated."
Navarro chimed in, describing this as "a teachable moment." She told the audience, "When Whoopi Goldberg tells me to mind my own damn business, I will mind my own damn business from now on... I'm going to shut my mouth."
"I'm deeply remorseful that I allowed Sara Haines to drag me down the rabbit hole. I'm deeply remorseful that Alyssa also led me down the rabbit hole. I generally don't care that much about the royals. I was very invested in how Meghan Markle says she was treated and that it almost drove her to death by suicide," Hostin stated. "The photos, I went down this crazy rabbit hole, thank you to my cohosts, and to myself, I have to take blame for that, because I also didn't listen to Whoopi Goldberg, who told me to stop, and I didn't. Here I am."
Goldberg closed the segment by doubling down on what she'd told her co-hosts when she declined to participate in a discussion about Middleton on the March 19 broadcast. "Once you've had this experience, it can scar you," the actress said. "Everybody jumps on board, and there's no way to stop it. People don't want to hear the truth."
