Whoopi Goldberg says her estranged clergyman father Robert was gay but her ... trends now
Whoopi Goldberg has claimed that her late father was gay but her mother, Emma, chose not to divorce him, even after he walked out on them, because he was the 'love of her life.'
In her new memoir, Bits And Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, And Me, the 68-year-old actor recalls growing up with her hard-working mom and her older brother, Clyde, in the projects in 1960s New York City.
Referring to when her father left the family home, Whoopi reportedly writes: 'My mother didn't talk about the marriage ending because she stayed married to him until the day he passed, nor do I think she ever thought of it as a failure.'
According to The US Sun, she then adds: 'It turns out that my dad was gay. Which couldn't have been easy either,' and says that when she later asked her mom how she knew about his sexuality, she didn't reveal too much.
Whoopi Goldberg has reportedly claimed in her new memoir, Bits And Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, And Me, that her father was gay
Whoopi, pictured with her mother, Emma, in 1986, says she didn't divorce Robert even after he left the family home
The actor also writes about older brother Clyde in the book, who sadly died of a brain aneurysm in May 2015
Whoopi's father reportedly passed away in May 1993 and is believed to have worked as a clergyman, while Whoopi claims he also did various other jobs such as a diamond merchant and a postal worker.
The Sister Act star apparently claims that her mom tried to get him to pay child support once he left, but says that helping black women in the projects in New York in the 1960s was 'not high on the state court's priority
