Whoopi Goldberg Says She Can’t Afford to Retire From ‘The View’ Because She Didn’t ‘Marry Well’
Written by b87fm on 09/12/2025
Whoopi Goldberg is making one thing clear: she’s not leaving The View anytime soon. After nearly two decades on the daytime talk show, the Oscar-winning actress and comedian says retirement isn’t even on the table—for one very practical reason.
“I can’t afford to retire,” Goldberg told Entertainment Tonight this week. “If you don’t marry well, you got to keep working.”
Goldberg, who joined The View back in 2007, has been married three times but has been candid in recent years about her choice to remain single. Still, when pressed about whether she’s one of the few Hollywood legends who could walk away comfortably, she didn’t hesitate:
“No, not by now. Not yet. I gotta keep paying those bills, baby.”
She’s not alone in that mindset. Fellow co-host Joy Behar—who joined the talk show in 1997, ten years before Goldberg—says she has no plans to retire either, even at 83. “Creative people don’t retire, they don’t resign, they just keep going,” Behar explained.
Watch the exchange in the video below:
And keep going they will. The View just launched its 29th season, bringing Goldberg, Behar, Sunny Hostin, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines, and Ana Navarro back to the table. The show has dominated daytime TV for the past five years, with audiences tuning in for its signature mix of politics, pop culture, and personal stories.
On their first day back, the panel wasted no time jumping into the chaos of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s congressional hearing on vaccines, tearing into his anti-vax rhetoric for a full 15 minutes.
If you were hoping Whoopi was getting ready to ride off into the sunset, don’t hold your breath. She’s got bills to pay—and plenty more “Hot Topics” to unpack.
