{"id":112429,"date":"2024-07-18T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/whoopi-goldberg-says-she-spread-her-moms-ashes-at-disneyland\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T13:33:36","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-says-she-spread-her-moms-ashes-at-disneyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/whoopi-goldberg-says-she-spread-her-moms-ashes-at-disneyland\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg Says She Spread Her Mom&#8217;s Ashes at Disneyland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/whoopi-goldberg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whoopi Goldberg<\/a><span>\u00a0is making a shocking revelation about one way she chose to honor her late mother.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During a recent appearance on <\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/late-night-seth-meyers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Late Night With Seth Meyers<\/a><span>, <\/span><\/em><span>the 68-year-old co-host of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/the-view\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The View<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0shared how she spread her mother&#8217;s ashes at Disneyland in Anaheim, California<\/span><em><span>. <\/span><\/em><span>Goldberg&#8217;s mom, Emma Harris, died of a stroke in 2010.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;No one should do this,&#8221; Goldberg cautioned the audience. &#8220;Don&#8217;t do it.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The EGOT winner explained that she chose to scatter her mom&#8217;s ashes at the theme park, because &#8220;my mother loved Disneyland.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span>Whoopi Goldberg and her mother, Emma Harris, in 1986.<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">Ron Galella\/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>&#8220;When I was a kid, the World&#8217;s Fair was here and it was the introduction of Small World,&#8221; she said. The long beloved It&#8217;s a Small World attraction was first introduced at the 1964-1965 New York World&#8217;s Fair and later shipped to Disneyland, where it opened in May 1966.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;She loved Small World,&#8221; Goldberg said of her mother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><em><span>Sister Act<\/span><\/em><span> actress shared that she would &#8220;periodically&#8221; pick up some of the ashes while on the ride and fake a big sneeze, pretending she had a cold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I&#8217;d say, &#8216;My God, this cold is getting worse and worse,'&#8221; she joked.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Then we got over to the flowers where it says &#8216;Disneyland&#8217; and I was like, &#8216;Oh, look at that,'&#8221; she continued.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"shortcode shortcode-image content-in\"><figcaption class=\"content-in\"><span>Whoopi Goldberg appears on &#8216;Late Night with Seth Meyers&#8217;<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"shortcode-image__credit\">Lloyd Bishop\/NBC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Shortly after, Goldberg thought better of her decision and informed park officials about what she had done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I wanted to make sure, actually, that I hadn&#8217;t done something that was dangerous,&#8221; she admitted. &#8220;It hadn&#8217;t occurred to me, but there&#8217;s a reason they don&#8217;t want ashes just floating around.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Goldberg recounts this story and many others in her memoir,\u00a0<\/span><a data-ti=\"overview\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwivwpn61LCHAxXXElkFHQ7vAY0Q_coHegQINxAB\" jsaction=\"rcuQ6b:npT2md;KjsqPd\" jscontroller=\"PCqCoe\" jsname=\"L3GAnc\" role=\"link\" tabindex=\"0\"><em>Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me<\/em>, which was released in May.\u00a0<\/a><span>Her brother, Clyde, died in 2015 from a brain aneurysm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This is really a love letter to parents and the people who raised me to be &#8212; love me or hate me &#8212; they raised me to be a halfway decent person,&#8221; she told host Seth Meyers. &#8220;I&#8217;m not always decent, not always, but halfway.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While promoting the book&#8217;s release, Goldberg told ET that now seemed like the perfect time to give her family the spotlight, given she was running up against time herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know if now was the right time to tell the story. It was just what I decided I needed to do. It wasn&#8217;t like a big revelation, and I think it&#8217;s just because I was starting to forget some stuff, you know?&#8221; Goldberg said. &#8220;The book isn&#8217;t really about me. It&#8217;s about the trio of people, and so I wanted to hold on as long as I could and kept writing stuff and this came out.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/whoopi-goldberg-says-she-spread-her-moms-ashes-at-disneyland-by-faking-sneezes-229334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoopi Goldberg\u00a0is making a shocking revelation about one way she chose to honor her late mother.\u00a0 During a recent appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the 68-year-old co-host of\u00a0The View\u00a0shared how she spread her mother&#8217;s ashes at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. 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