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Whoopi Goldberg recalls horrifying moment a hotel maid found her with COCAINE 'all over' her face - as she reveals how drug-fueled Hollywood parties turned her into a 'very high-functioning addict'

Whoopi, 68, opens up about her substance abuse in her new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me, where she also writes about her mom, Emma, being sent away.

According to The US Sun, Whoopi explains in her new book how after moving to Los Angeles, she would attend parties in Hollywood, Bel Air, and Beverly Hills, where a bowl of Quaaludes would greet her at the door and lines of cocaine would be laid out for guests. Elsewhere in the candid memoir, the Oscar winner says she saved her mother, Emma, from taking her own life shortly before she was carted off to New York City's Bellevue psychiatric hospital when Whoopi was just eight years old. Turning to the live studio audience, Whoopi then said: 'So, here's another reason why you must really pay attention to what's going on politically because there was a time in this country where your husband or your brother or any man involved in your life could make medical decisions for you.

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