For her return, Goldberg donned a silver folding chair necklace and offered a stern observation on gun control.
So a fight ensued and something happened that we have not seen."
A large brawl broke out soon after, with police detaining 13 people.
Whoopi Goldberg wears a folding chair necklace on ‘The View’.ABC
“Black people came out of nowhere,” Goldberg quipped.
“We dropped out of the sky.
It was crazy.”
“The memes were off the hook.
I am wearing a folding chair,” Goldberg added, holding up her necklace.
Four of the whiteboaters have since been hit with misdemeanor assault chargesand have pleaded not guilty.
When somebody is doing their job, let them do their job.
So let’s not do that again."
Goldberg previously missed the show’s season 27 premiereafter she contracted COVID-19.
Goldberg previously came down with COVID in January 2022 and ended upmissing several episodes in November.
