CNN —Whoopi Goldberg knows the value of leaving nothing unsaid to those you love. Whoopi Goldberg with her mother Emma Johnson. Years later, during a conversation with her mother, Goldberg said she came to understand how the experience shaped her perspective on life. Whoopi Goldberg with her brother Clyde Johnson. There were three of us,” continued to pop up, spurring a feeling of such loneliness amid Goldberg’s ongoing grief that there was a point, she told Cooper, when she “once flirted with thinking about leaving,” too.

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