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Whoopi Goldberg recalls how she saved her mother from taking her own life before she was sent away to a psychiatric hospital for two years and given electric shock therapy: 'We were told nothing'

Writing in her new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me, the 68-year-old actor opens up about her childhood with her older brother Clyde and her mom Emma Johnson.

Writing in her new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, And Me, the 68-year-old actor recalls feeling 'protective and p**sed off' as neighbors watched as mom Emma Johnson was helped into an ambulance in the early 1960s. 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. Referring to a comment she made earlier about not telling children things, Whoopi said: 'I had to deal with this with my daughter, because when I got famous I didn't realize that I too was leaving her because she and I had been like this,' as she pulled her arms together.

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