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Whoopi Goldberg’s Former ‘View’ Co-Host Michelle Collins Speaks Out: ‘She’s Not An Anti-Semite’

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Michelle Collins is weighing in on Whoopi Goldberg‘s controversy. On the latest episode of SiriusXM’s “The Michelle Collins Show”, the former co-host of “The View”, who appeared on the show between 2015 and 2016, addressed Goldberg’s recent remarks on the Holocaust, for which she has apologized and been suspended for two weeks.

Collins, one of only two Jewish co-hosts to ever appear on “The View” (the other is Barbara Walters), began her discussion by praising Goldberg. “When I was on that show, Whoopi Goldberg was one of the most supportive, nicest, people there to me,” she said. “… I know Whoopi fairly well.

I know her family. I adore her. I look up to her. She’s literally one of the icons of a generation. Whoopi is not only brilliantly smart, brilliantly talented, hilarious, but very loving and very lovely.” Goldberg drew controversy when she said, “The Holocaust isn’t about race.

It’s about man’s inhumanity to man. These are two white groups of people.” While Collins acknowledged that Goldberg’s statement was “obviously… not the case,” the radio show host said that she believes it wasn’t said with ill intent. “I don’t believe she said it to hurt the Jewish people,” Collins said of Goldberg. “I think you’re on a live show and things are said.

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