Whoopi Goldberg ‘Needed to Take a Breath’ and Step Aside amid Chat About Foot Fetishes on The View

Whoopi Goldberg needed a break when the conversation turned to foot fetishes View.

On Tuesday’s episode of the ABC talk show, Goldberg, 68, stepped away from the table as her co-hosts discussed the Guardian’s advice column in which a man said his wife no longer let him massage her feet after admitting he had a fetish .

“You have to entertain your partner within reason,” explained co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, prompting Goldberg to take a break from the conversation.

Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin on “The View.”

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“Excuse me for a moment, keep talking,” she said before stepping away from the table for a moment.

“Whoopi left the building,” joked Griffin, 34, as Goldberg walked upstage to hand over the notebook.

After Goldberg rejoined her co-hosts, the conversation continued with Behar teasing, “You know, not to brag, but my feet created the foot fetish out there, so I can’t answer this because I feel like I’m responsible for the fetishes.”

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At the end of the segment, Behar, 81, asked Goldberg why she felt the need to leave the table. Then she replied, “Because I was so into what you were saying that I felt I had to take a breath so that I could compose myself and return to the table.”

“This is what this conversation does to people. It makes them get up and move. I don’t care, because my feet are huge and nobody wants to touch them,” she added.

This is not the first time that feet have become a topic of conversation View.

Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar on “The View.”

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Last month, comedian Matt Rogers recalled a hilarious memory when he returned on the same flight from the Bahamas as some of the ABC’s talk show hosts.

“You were in the front row,” Rogers said before turning to Behar, “You were barefoot on that plane.”

Rogers added, “I said I respect that,” and Behar then defensively said, “I didn’t walk around, though.”

In September, Matthew McConaughey rubbed Behar’s feet on air. As fans may recall, the duo went viral in 2006 for the same reason.

After footage of the incident played, Behar described the massage as the “highlight” of her life and stuck her leg out on the Hot Topics table as she sheepishly added, “I happened to get a pedicure this week.”

View the co-hosts also put their feet on the table for all to see in February 2022. The group discussed their rankings on wikiFeet, a website dedicated to ranking celebrity feet and toes.

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View airs weekdays (11 a.m. ET) on ABC.

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