Whoopi goldberg’s angry year

Whoopi Goldberg admits that her anger sometimes gets the best of her, said Tim Stack in _Entertainment Weekly._ The comedian, 54, has been in her share of scrapes this year as co-host of

_The View,_ beginning with a backstage clash with White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi. Goldberg says she saw red when Tareq aggressively stuck his camera in her face to take

her picture. “The room went blank,” she says. “I turned into a street child and [verbally] motherf---ed him up and down.” In July, she unapologetically defended Mel Gibson over his infamous

taped rants, which included several racial slurs. “He’s a bonehead! But I can’t sit and let you say he’s a racist when in my experience with him, I can’t say I’ve ever seen that.” Things

really came to a head last month after Goldberg stormed off the set when Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly said, “Muslims killed us on 9/11.” “He painted an entire people and I had had it,” says

Goldberg. “I knew if I stayed there I was gonna drop the F-bomb or say something really wrong.” She says she’s trying harder to “play well with others,” but admits it’s hard. “My life is

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