Whoopi Goldberg reveals she learned to deal with grief the hard way

Whoopi Goldberg recently said she learned the lesson of grief the hard way after losing her mother Emma Johnson 14 years ago.

Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on his episode this week Everything there is podcast, the to see The co-presenter shared that her way of grieving was different.

“I couldn’t understand why she wasn’t more devastated,” she said.

Whoopi told Anderson, “There was nothing left unsaid with us, so there was no angst to be found.”

Reflecting on the death of his mother, the Sister Act The star noted, “What I’ve seen in the movies where I see people go through it, I didn’t go through it because my experience was, ‘You know I loved you and I loved you, and you were the center of my life .’”

“The same with my brother. We told each other all the time”, admitted the media personality.

Whoopi’s brother Clyde Johnson died five years after her mother, making her realize that she was the only one left in her immediate family.

“I don’t think anything can prepare you for being truly alone,” the 68-year-old said.

Whoopi recalled that her mother’s hospital stay was “probably the best thing that could have happened to me because I understood instantly that nothing is forever.” It was very good to know because it allowed me to develop my thinking”.

Although the actress and host is a mother and grandmother herself, Whoopi told Anderson that she still thinks about how alone she felt after her brother’s death.

“The question of why you left me?” the actress continued.

She explained: “There were three of us and now she felt so alone that she once flirted with leaving too.”

Whoopi admitted, “It was the thought of her own daughter that made her decide not to.”

The Ghost the actress said she was in the stage of grief where she “found joy” in the little things.

Meanwhile, Whoopi remembered her mother as she added: “If I can be half the person she was, I’ll feel like I’ve honored her the way I’d like to honor her.”

“She was really this beacon of light,” concluded the TV presenter.