Whoopi Goldberg shocks with new look on ‘The View’ — right here’s why
One thing was noticeably totally different about Whoopi Goldberg’s look throughout Monday’s episode of “The View.”
Goldberg, who has been carrying eyeglasses for 28 years, hosted with out them, explaining throughout the “Hot Topics” segment that she had undergone eye surgical procedure over the weekend.
“I had an operation, they usually changed the lens and the lens they changed it with is sort of like my eyeglass lens,” the 67-year-old introduced.
Co-host Sunny Hostin then interjected, excitedly declaring that Goldberg may now see.
Goldberg defined that, “Two weeks in the past, when we had a present with the oldsters from ‘Picard,’ I used to be attempting to learn the prompter with out my precise glasses, and I couldn’t do it, so I ended up having to put on them [my glasses].”
The “Sister Act” star revealed that the process was to deal with a situation known as presbyopia. She defined that she had “teeny tiny” cataracts on the lens of her eye, which is why they have been changed it.

Presbyopia is a “refractive error” that makes it onerous for individuals to see objects up shut, in accordance with the National Eye Institute. It’s a regular a part of getting older, and happens as a result of the lens in your eye “stops focusing mild accurately on the retina,” the NEI notes.
Through the phase, Goldberg urged viewers to get their eyes checked in the event that they have been experiencing any points with their imaginative and prescient.
“The bionic instances have arrived,” she joked.
Goldberg’s announcement comes on the heels of her latest controversy on the discuss present. Throughout final Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” Goldberg used what is taken into account an ethnic slur towards the Romani individuals.


She referred to “individuals who nonetheless imagine that he obtained gy—d someway within the election” whereas discussing Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels.
The time period is derived from the phrase “Gypsy” and is taken into account derogatory.
Lower than one hour later, she issued an apology for utilizing the phrase, through a video that was posted to the present’s official Twitter account.

“You already know, whenever you’re a sure age you employ the phrases that you recognize from whenever you have been a child otherwise you keep in mind saying, and that’s what I did immediately — and I shouldn’t have,” Goldberg mentioned within the brief clip.
She continued, “I ought to have thought of it slightly longer earlier than I mentioned it however I didn’t. I ought to have mentioned ‘cheated’ and I used one other phrase and I’m actually, actually sorry.”
The hosts have been additionally slammed last week by followers for failing to ask Hugh Grant about his viral Oscars 2023 interview with Ashley Graham. He appeared on the present Thursday.