Whoopi Goldberg detailed her past drug addiction struggles and famous friendships in new ‘Bits and Pieces’ memoir
Whoopi Goldberg detailed the darkest parts of her life in her new book, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me, dedicated to her late mother, Emma Harris, and late brother, Clyde K. Johnson.
“My father and mother had separated, so I didn’t grow up with him,” Goldberg wrote. “She tried to get him to pay some support through the courts, but helping Black women living in the projects wasn’t high on the state court’s priority list, and she couldn’t afford a lawyer who might have gotten something done.”Despite the struggles, her mother “refused to apply for welfare” because Harris “didn’t like the stigma.” Goldberg added, “I saw her cry once or twice about being unable to pay her taxes.
“I explained to her the whole farting thing. ‘Well, if you're going to change your name and want people to take you seriously, you need a more substantial name,’ my mother advised me,” Goldberg recalled. “I said, ‘Oh, really, great namer of the stars? What do you think it should be?’ She said, ‘Well, you should take one of the names from the family tree. How about Goldberg? That has a nice ring to it.’ That became my name.
The “cocaine started to kick my ass” and her work was impacted, she explained. “Finally, I had one of those slap-in-the-face moments that make you see pretty f--king clearly that you've hit bottom.”Goldberg welcomed her daughter, Alex Martin, in 1973 with her first husband, Alvin Martin. Goldberg said the pain she experienced during childbirth was enough to make her not want to do it again.
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