Goldberg dedicated the latest in her long line of collapses to EW.
Celebrity pass-out artist Whoopi Goldberg has once again collapsed at The View table — and even dedicated her latest crash toward the Hot Topics surface to Entertainment Weekly.
During an apparently agonizing cohost discussion about a couple who allegedly got into an argument over jabs about each other’s bodies in bed, the 70-year-old made it clear that she’d had enough after her colleagues began using the word “shtooping” and “a jiggle” to describe, uh, playtime in the sack.
Before her big moment, Goldberg readied the audience at the start of the conversation, warning them that she might not make it through the segment.
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Whoopi Goldberg collapses on ‘The View’ in tribute to ‘Entertainment Weekly’
“Stay with this,” she said. “Stay with this, and keep me awake.”
As the conversation trudged on, Goldberg remained mostly silent, until things went one step too far, leading her to invoke EW’s spirit as she performed one of her famous collapses.
“This is for Entertainment Weekly,” Goldberg said, as she lowered her head to the table to take a brief nap.
Wednesday’s collapse is, by far, not the first time Goldberg has feigned passing out in dire capacity while seated at the Hot Topics table.
Various discussions have contributed to Goldberg zapping herself out of reality in the workplace, including Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, observations about Donald Trump, and coverage of the Real Housewives franchise, among numerous other hellish occasions.
In a stunning display of her EGOT-winning skills, Goldberg even once stood up from — and then collapsed — to the table during a June 2025 discussion about Sean Combs.
In other Goldberg-related mobility developments, the star once got up from the table to point out that a dead alien was, in fact, dead.
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“It’s definitely dead,” she said, standing up to point toward the alleged alien body displayed on a medical table in a photo behind the cohosts.
Additionally, in March 2024, Goldberg sprung up from her seat to scold a disruptive audience member who was recording the telecast with his phone.
Watch Goldberg collapse in honor of EW in the video at the top of this post.

Goldberg’s latest theatrical wipeout only added to her long-running reputation as daytime TV’s most dramatic “collapse connoisseur.” But according to crew members who spoke off-camera, Wednesday’s moment nearly derailed the entire segment — not because Goldberg actually fainted, but because the rest of the panel couldn’t stop laughing long enough to continue the discussion.
Joy Behar reportedly leaned over and muttered, “Here she goes again,” while Sara Haines tried — and failed — to keep a straight face as producers frantically waved their cue cards from behind the cameras. Even Alyssa Farah Griffin, watching from home while recovering from illness, posted a laughing emoji on Instagram when the clip hit social media.
Backstage staffers say the running gag has become an unofficial part of the show’s culture: whenever a topic reaches peak absurdity, everyone silently wonders, Will Whoopi go down today? And almost always, she delivers.
Sources also reveal that Goldberg’s collapses have become a favorite among the editing team, who keep a dedicated internal highlight reel titled “Whoopi Down: The Complete Collection.” One staffer joked that if she ever releases a memoir, the collapses could fill an entire chapter on their own.
Whether she’s protesting celebrity gossip, political nonsense, or extraterrestrial corpses, one thing is certain: When Whoopi drops, The View goes viral.