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02.05.2024 - 00:49 / perezhilton.com
Thank goodness for Whoopi Goldberg‘s incredible bravery and quick thinking when she was just a little kid.
The View co-host is set to release her groundbreaking autobiography next Tuesday. In Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me, Whoopi will recount much of her early life growing up in public housing in New York City alongside her brother Clyde and her mother Emma Johnson.
In the book, of which the US Sun received an advance copy, Whoopi — whose real name is Caryn Johnson — revealed stories about how the family was dirt poor in NYC. She and Clyde grew up in public housing, and they always struggled for money. But rather than go on welfare, their mother insisted she work as a nurse to provide for the family.
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Tragically, one day when Whoopi was in elementary school, she came home in the afternoon after class to find her mom looking “disheveled,” as she wrote in the autobiography. Emma was wearing only a slip dress and a black trench coat, and was barefoot in the house. Whoopi wrote that Emma was “muttering incoherently” at the time, and hadn’t realized that her school-age daughter had gotten home from class.
What happened next was truly terrifying: her mother walked over to the kitchen’s oven and attempted suicide. The 68-year-old television star wrote:
OMG..
So, so scary. Thankfully, Whoopi indeed managed to pull her out. Then, she called the police, and first responders came and wheeled Emma away on a gurney for treatment.
Sadly, the tragedy doesn’t end there. After Emma was taken to NYC’s Bellevue psychiatric hospital, the two children were pawned off to other family members for care and didn’t see their
Selena Gomez is ready to tie the knot! At least, that’s what her friend hopes!
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300,000 followers, who directed and starred in the Prime Video series “Club Rat.” Law enforcement sources told TMZ on Tuesday that a friend found Evans, 29 hanging in her NYC apartment on Saturday night, after having seen her on Friday. “Yesterday my family received news that our sweet, fabulous, creative, caring, hilarious Eva, my beautiful sister, has died,” Evans sister Lila Joy Baumgardner wrote on Instagram Sunday. “After 24 hours, i still find myself in a constant cycle of denial and acceptance, so i know how unbelievable and hard to process this news will be.”Per TMZ, the friend who called the police told them that they weren’t aware of Evans being depressed or otherwise emotionally disturbed.Sources said there was no sign of a struggle, no unusual injuries, and that Evans left a note behind.