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Whoopi Goldberg Reveals How She Really Got Her Stage Name in ‘Bits and Pieces’ Memoir
‘The View’ cohost was originally born Caryn Johnson, but wanted a name that ‘sounded more interesting.’
In her new memoir titled Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother and Me, The View cohost recalled the moment she didn’t want to be called her birth name, Caryn Johnson. “Once I started getting parts in plays, I wanted a name that sounded more interesting,” Whoopi wrote in her book via Us Weekly. Whoopi Goldberg (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images)From that point on, “only my family and a few people who knew me early in my life still called me Caryn.”
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