💦 Whoopi Goldberg reveals her three marriages went wrong for one reason

Whoopi Goldberg rose to prominence with her role in the iconic movie The Color Purple, and the rest, as they say, is history.

It’s safe to say that she became a huge star almost overnight and captured the attention of millions with this Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film four stars, calling it “the year’s best film” thus referring to Goldberg’s role as “one of the most amazing debut performances in movie history.” Eventually, she became the first Black woman to win all four major North American entertainment awards, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.

Living in a housing project in Manhattan with her mother as a young child, Goldberg knew that comedy was her calling in life. She dropped school and married at the age of around 18 to Alvin Martin, the first of Whoopi’s three husbands, and that many failed marriages. From this union, which didn’t last long, the actress got her daughter Alexandra.

Speaking to Oprah, Goldberg revealed she once worked as a mortuary beautician.

“I did hair and makeup on dead people,” Goldberg said.

“There was an ad in the paper! And I’m a licensed beautician as well, because I went to beauty school.

“It’s a rough gig,” she added. “You have to be a certain kind of person. And you have to love people in order to make them worthy of a great send-off.”

At the same time, she did comedy and toured across the US and Europe with her one-woman production, The Spook Show. It was then that she was discovered by legendary director Mike Nichols. He was enchanted with Goldberg’s talent and soon after her show got a Broadway production.

What followed was The Color Purple and then a number of other smash hit films, including Ghost, for which she received an Academy Award, and the everlasting Sister Act, which made her the highest paid actress in history at the time.

Recently, Goldberg was suspended from the award-winning talk show The View for using what the audience considered foul language.

When it comes to her private life, Goldberg says she is at he best when she’s single because it gives her peace.

Between 1986 and 1988, Goldberg married her second husband, David Claessen, and then in 1994, she tied the knot with Lyle Trachtenberg. None of the marriages lasted long, and the actress believes she is the one to be blamed for that.

Goldberg shared that she has a hard time sharing things with others, which was the case with her ex-husbands.

“Look, people expect you to have a boyfriend. They expect you to get married,” she told the New York Times.