Whoopi Goldberg revealed the ‘interesting’ story behind her stage name in her ‘Bits and Pieces’ memoir
“Once I started getting parts in plays, I wanted a name that sounded more interesting. Caryn Johnson wasn’t it,” Goldberg, 68, wrote in reference to her real name in her memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me, released on Tuesday, May 7.
When her first review was written by journalist Welton Jones, the actress recalled her mother, Emma Harris, questioning the name change. From that point on, “only my family and a few people who knew me early in my life still called me Caryn,” she wrote.
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