“I can’t say enough about her.
We wanted to make a movie about her 35 years ago.
“I had all my Spanish, I had everything!”
Whoopi Goldberg and Celia Cruz.Credit:KMazur/WireImage
Entertainment Weeklyhas reached out to representatives for Goldberg and Jackson for comment.
Earlier onThe View, Goldberg celebrated Cruz’s legacy and friendship.
“You couldn’t touch her, you couldn’t touch what she could do.
Singer Celia Cruz in Paris, France, 1980.Photo: Lionel DeCoster, Creative Commons
That voice and that power that she had, it didn’t matter who you were.
She connected to you.
The music made you move,” Goldberg said.
“When you have that power to transform people, it’s amazing.
She was like no other artist.
Still, there’s no one like her today.”
The Viewairs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT onABC.
