The View’s Whoopi Goldberg reveals her daughter got pregnant at the age of 15 as ‘REVENGE’ – because she ‘wanted one person in her life’ who did not know about her famous mom

Whoopi Goldberg has admitted she thinks her daughter got pregnant at such a young age to get ‘revenge’ on the Sister Act star for being away so much when her film career took off.

In her new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother And Me, the 68-year-old reveals that daughter Alexandrea Martin, her only child, told her she wanted “one person in her life who didn’t know who Whoopi Goldberg was.”

Whoopi, who was 19 when she gave birth in May 1974, has previously admitted she chose her acting career over her daughter because she felt her shot at fame would ‘never happen again’ – and she expands on this in her new book.

Whoopi confirms it was her own mother, Emma Johnson, who was present in the delivery room when Alexandrea gave birth in 1989, writing: ‘Years later, Alex told me she thinks she got pregnant as a teenager because she wanted one person inside her. her life not knowing who Whoopi Goldberg was.

Whoopi, pictured here in 1986 with her second husband David Claessen and Alex, has previously said she chose her career over her child

Whoopi and her daughter pictured at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles in 1991

‘I thought she was taking revenge on me for being away so much. I get it,” Whoopi continues, before adding that when she initially asked her daughter if she was sure she would keep her baby, she replied, “Yes, I want to have this baby.” And this baby will love me, and she won.” I do not know you.”

“That may sound harsh to some, but I understood,” Whoopi says. “Look, people would put my child aside without even realizing they had done it. After a while it really pissed her off.”

Alexandrea was 11 years old when moviegoers had the opportunity to witness her talents in her first major film role in Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple, in which she played Celie Harris-Johnson.

In March, Whoopi opened up about choosing her career over Alex, telling The View panel, “My child came before my career, and I chose my career because I knew it would never happen again.

“She didn’t always like it, but that’s the process of being a parent; they’re not supposed to like everything you do.”

And last week on the ABC show, while discussing her new book with her co-hosts, Whoopi compared leaving her daughter behind to the moment her own mother Emma left when she was just eight when she was sent to a psychiatric hospital in New York City was sent off.

“I had to deal with this with my daughter because when I became famous, I didn’t realize that I too would leave her because she and I… were our own bond, just like me and my mother and my brother,” she said. them the panel.

“We were, and when she got really annoyed with me later in life, I said, ‘What’s the problem?’ And I realized, “Oh my God, I did the same thing my mother did,” except it wasn’t my mother’s choice.

Whoopi opens up about her own childhood and the early days of her career in her new memoir Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, And Me

The Oscar winner and her daughter, pictured here in 1993, have a very close bond

Whoopi pictured with her daughter Alex and her two children, Mason and Jerzey, in 2006

Whoopi pictured in May 2008 with her granddaughter Amarah Skye Martin

“I knew I was leaving, I knew why I was leaving, and I tried to explain it, which you can’t do to an eight-year-old, because she doesn’t have… she only has eight years of life, which means they might have four. ‘

Whoopi recalls in her memoir, “As an adult, Alex remembers me explaining to her as a child why I had to be away a lot. She gets it now.

‘But as a child you don’t think about financial independence, security or a backup in the bank account. When you’re eight or nine, you just want your mother there.’

Alex is now a mother to her three children: daughters Amara and Jerzey, and son Mason.

In March 2014, Whoopi became a great-grandmother when Amarah gave birth to a daughter named Charli Rose.