Whoopi Goldberg says she would love to retire — but she can’t afford to.
The View cohost, 69, has been part of the ABC daytime talk show since 2007, but she isn’t in a rush to slow down as she prepares to turn 70 in November.
“Who can afford to do that?” Goldberg responded to an Entertainment Tonight reporter who asked if she’d thought about “slowing down.”
“If you don’t marry well, you gotta keep working,” Goldberg said in the interview published on Tuesday, September 9.
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When the reporter suggested Goldberg “could probably afford” to retire, she candidly responded, “No, not by now. Not yet.”
The Oscar winner added, “I gotta keep paying those bills, baby.”
Meanwhile, Goldberg’s View cohost Joy Behar, 83, said she isn’t looking at retirement. “Creative people don’t really retire,” she told the outlet. “I just really like to write and create stuff. … Creative people don’t retire, they don’t resign, they just keep going.”
Goldberg and Behar returned for season 29 of The View, which kicked off on Monday, September 8, alongside cohosts Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin.
The Sister Act star has been married three times, first to drug counselor Alvin Martin from 1973 to 1979, then Dutch cinematographer David Claessen from 1986 to 1988, and finally to union organizer Lyle Trachtenberg from 1994 to 1995. She shares her only child, daughter Alexandra Martin, 51, with her first husband.
Goldberg has previously expressed that she is not interested in getting married again and isn’t sure she loved all of her ex-husbands.
“Some people are not meant to be married and I am not meant to. I’m sure it is wonderful for lots of people,” the actress said in a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan.
She added, “I suppose that, you know, you have to actually be in love with the person that you marry. You have to really be committed to them. And I don’t have that commitment.”
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Goldberg said that she got married because she “wanted to feel normal.”
“It seemed to me that if I was married, I’d have a much normal — more normal life,” the Ghost actress explained. “But clearly, that’s not the case. There’s not a good reason to get married. You have to actually want a life with someone through ups and downs. I just discovered that wasn’t for me.”
