American actress and talk show host, Whoopi Goldberg, has been forced to make an awkward on-air confession about why her name appears in the Jeffrey Epstein files during Tuesday’s episode of The View.
Shortly after reality star Savannah Chrisley was introduced as a guest panelist for the rest of the week, the co-host, 70, announced that her name came up in an email exchange between Epstein and a redacted individual.
The message centered on an attempt to find a private plane for Goldberg to jet to Monaco to attend an event hosted by Julian Lennon’s charity, the White Feather Foundation.
As the email appeared on the screen, Goldberg pointedly said: ‘Now, in the name of transparency… my name is in the files.’
Reading the message aloud, she continued: ‘It says, “Whoopi needs a plane to get to Monaco… Julian Lennon’s charity is paying for it. They don’t want to charter so they’re looking for private owners. Here’s the info.”
‘And they give all the information and they’re saying, “Do you want to offer your G2?”‘
At this, co-host Sunny Hostin stressed that Epstein declined the offer in a separate message.
‘And it looks like they said no thanks,’ she pointed out.
Joy Behar added: ‘So, in other words, anyone can be on this list?’
Goldberg went on to claim that she was not a friend nor a girlfriend of Epstein.
‘This is my point because, when I tell you people are trying to turn me into…’ she said. ‘I wasn’t his girlfriend. I wasn’t his friend.
‘I was not only too old, but it was at a time where this is just not…. You used to have to have facts before you said stuff.’
When Behar, 83, mentioned that President Donald Trump’s name has appeared in the files 38,000 times.
‘I can’t speak to him, but I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged,’ Goldberg responded.
‘People actually believe that I was with him. It’s like, honey, come on. Every man I’ve ever been with, you’ve known about ’em because either The Enquirer wrote about it, people wrote about this stuff.’