As Whoopi Goldberg’s View Co-Hosts Guess She Has ‘Experience’ amid Polyamory Chat, She Nods, ‘I’m Good Like That’

Hosts of View they share quite similar views on ethical non-monogamy.

The co-hosts discussed New York magazine’s cover story on polyamory on Tuesday’s episode, with Whoopi Goldberg asking fellow hosts Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin if they would consider opening up about their relationships.

“First of all, the French couldn’t pull it off, they can’t even…” Behar, 81, replied. “In this country, we are too puritanical in this country. I mean, Janet Jackson’s nipple popped and the country went bananas. So how do they go to bed… how many orgasms can one girl fake?”

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Haines, 46, said she “can barely handle one.”

Hostin, 55, concluded that people in polyamorous relationships are “more evolved than I am.”

“I’m more of a cavewoman in my relationship,” said Hostin, who married orthopedic surgeon Emmanuel Hostin in 1998. “It’s like ‘you’re mine.’ It’s like it’s me more. But what I don’t understand is that some of these people are married, have children and have jobs. How do you have time for that, let alone with one man, several men or women? Not only are they more developed than me, but they also have more energy.”

Sunny and Emmanuel Hostin.

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Griffin, who has been married to husband Justin Griffin since November 2021, shares a similar sentiment.

“I barely have time for an evening date,” said the 34-year-old. “To me personally, like why not just be single? And maybe it’s my lack of understanding, but if you say, ‘I care about this person, but I also want to sleep with a lot of other people,’ why don’t you just go out and about?”

Behar, who married her longtime boyfriend Steve Janowitz in 2011, noted, “There’s obviously more to marriage than sex. In fact, where is the sex these days?”

Griffin also suspected that not everyone in a polyamorous relationship felt completely comfortable with the arrangement.

“There’s no way that one of the two parties in a polyamorous relationship isn’t actually jealous that the other is sleeping with someone else,” she said. “They’re pretending.” They know they have to do this to keep their relationship alive. I just don’t think people are wired that way.”

Haines, who married attorney Max Shifrin in 2014, admitted she would be “too jealous” to be in a non-monogamous relationship. But Goldberg encouraged her co-hosts to open their minds.

Max Shifrin and Sara Haines.

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“You have to expand your arena to the people you know,” he said Sister Act said the star. “Because these are not just sleepy little towns. Look, if you can do more than one thing at a time, you can have a polyamorous relationship. ALRIGHT? If you can chew gum and walk, you can be more than one person.”

Hostin told Goldberg that it seemed like you were “speaking from experience.”

“If I seem that way, it’s because I’m good,” Goldberg replied.

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Goldberg has previously expressed satisfaction with her single life. “People keep saying, ‘Well, you’re going to find someone,’” EGOT winner Tamron Hall said in 2019. “I’m not looking for anyone. I am very happy. I don’t want to live with anyone.”

Goldberg added that after three marriages, she did not want to be tied to another person.

“When you make a commitment to someone else, it’s a commitment to ask their opinion, listen and work it out with them,” she said. “I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to share money. I know it’s scary, but I don’t want to do it.”

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View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.

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