Whoopi Goldberg’s Mother Had Electroshock Remedy and Did not Know Who Her Kids Have been

Whereas speaking to PEOPLE about her upcoming memoir My Mom, My Brother, and Me, Goldberg revealed her mom skilled a psychological breakdown whereas she was in elementary college.

“My mom at one level after I obtained older… mentioned, ‘Can I let you know a secret?’ I used to be like, ‘Positive,”” Goldberg advised the publication. “She mentioned, ‘I did not know who you had been after I obtained out of the hospital.’ It is like, ‘I am sorry, what? I am sorry, what?’ She mentioned, ‘Yeah, I had no thought who you had been. I simply knew I by no means needed to return to that hospital. So I needed to do all the things I may. In the event that they mentioned the sky was inexperienced, and I may see it wasn’t inexperienced, and it was blue, I would say, ‘Sure, the sky is inexperienced.’ ‘Trigger I by no means needed it once more.'”

The View cohost revealed that her mom, Emma Johnson, was in hospital for 2 years following her breakdown and even endured electroshock remedy — to the purpose the place the names of her kids, Whoopi and her late brother Clyde, had been wiped from her reminiscence.

“I mentioned to her, ‘And no person knew. You did not inform anyone,'” she continued. “‘I mentioned, ‘So that you carried this for 40 years?’ She mentioned, ‘Properly, what else was I going to do?'”

Goldberg detailed her expertise rising up and not using a mother for these two years, calling her mom her “world” and “heart of gravity.”

“All of a sudden the middle of gravity wasn’t there,” she mentioned.

Goldberg opened up extra about her mom on The View Wednesday, saying her grandfather and father “OK’d that [her] mom get the shock therapy for 2 years” as a result of “there was a time on this nation when … any man concerned in your life may make medical choices for you.”

Her fellow cohosts expressed their “shock” that such therapy was utilized in Goldberg’s lifetime.

Johnson died after having a stroke in 2010.

Goldberg additionally opened up about her relationship together with her brother, Clyde, who died in 2015 of a mind aneurysm. She described him as “enjoyable” and that “girls liked him.”

Goldberg’s memoir, My Mom, My Brother, and Me, hits bookstores on Might 7, 2024.