Whoopi Goldberg makes shocking revelation about her parents in new memoir

Whoopi Goldberg has recently opened up about being raised by her single mother as her father abandoned his family.

In her new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me, Whoopi revealed her mother Emma Harris “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,” via The Sun.

The View host made shocking revelation about her father’s sexuality in her memoir, as she wrote, “It turns out that my dad was gay. Which couldn't have been easy either.”

However, Whoopi recalled when she later asked her mom how she knew about his sexuality, she didn't divulge too much.

The Sister Act actress, whose real name is Caryn Johnson, mentioned she grew up with her mother and older brother Clyde K. Johnson, who later passed away from a brain aneurysm in 2015 at the age of 65.

Whoopi alleged in her memoir that her mom tried to get her dad to pay child support, but helping Black women in the projects in New York in the 1960s was “not high on the state court's priority list and she didn't have the financial means to recruit a lawyer”.

Over the years, Whoopi’s estranged father Robert reportedly died in May 1993 and believed to have worked as a clergyman. However, he had also worked as a diamond merchant and a postal worker.

Meanwhile, Whoopi also addressed her mother’s mental breakdown after which she was hospitalized for two years.

It was at this point the actress and host penned her dad and grandfather stepped in to help the family.

Whoopi added writing her memoir “was at times a daunting task, as it was almost harder to do because it was like losing them again”.