Whoopi Goldberg reflects on how cocaine use affected her personal life and career

Whoopi Goldberg reflects on her former cocaine addiction and how a face-to-face encounter with a housewife forced her to get clean.

In her memories “Pieces: My Mother, My Brother and Me” Released on May 7, “The View” co-host Goldberg revealed that after “getting clean” from recreational drug use within the early Nineteen Seventies, she relapsed within the Nineteen Eighties while spending time in New York and Los Angeles.

“I was invited to parties where I was greeted at the door with a bowl of Quaaludes from which I could choose whatever I wanted,” Goldberg wrote in his speech People Magazine. “There were lines of cocaine lined up on tables and bathroom counters for the taking.”

The actress and comedian said she thought she could “handle cocaine,” but after a 12 months she “fell into a deep well of cocaine” and “slumped to a new low.”

“Cocaine started kicking my ass,” Goldberg wrote: Entertainment Weekly reported. “I went to work and realized I used to be getting sloppy. I didn’t prefer it. I knew it wasn’t good. At one point I hallucinated that there was something under my bed and I could be attacked if I got up. So I didn’t leave my bed for twenty-four hours. Shit like this does not end nicely. Only so long as the person can hold their bladder.

The EGOT winner’s wake-up call got here as she celebrated her birthday at an upscale Manhattan hotel. She recalled that when she took an oz of cocaine that somebody had given her, the landlady found it within the closet.

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Goldberg said the incident surprised the landlady, who checked out her. After looking within the mirror, she realized she had cocaine on her face.

“I allowed something else to run my life and take control of me,” Goldberg recalls. “I didn’t need my mom to be disappointed or mad at me – I was pissed off at myself enough.”

After the hotel incident, the “Sister Act” star decided to “fix” her life and get clean for her mother, Emma Harris, and daughter Alex – and she ultimately succeeded.

“I didn’t want my kid to think his mom was an addict,” Goldberg said, in accordance with EW. “I didn’t want my mother to think her daughter was an addict. So I straightened up like an arrow – an arrow that gained twenty kilos the following 12 months. I assumed, “Okay, this is the trade-off.” This is what it’ll seem like. If you must stay alive, you might have to return to terms with it.”

Goldberg’s memoir pays tribute to her family and focuses primarily on her relationships with her mother, who died in 2010, and her brother, Clyde K. Johnson, who died in 2015. interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace to advertise the memoir, Goldberg shared one other revelation: regardless that she has been married 3 times, she has never been in love and doesn’t imagine she was cut out for such a relationship.

“When you are married to someone, you might have to care about how they feel. I’m not,” Goldberg said. “I spend money on my child, I spend money on her children, I spend money on my son-in-law, I spend money on my friends. But I’m not investing in a relationship that might require as much as having a toddler would require.