HOW many people dislike Whoopi Goldberg?
Nun (that's a bad Sister Act joke … apologies).
The 58-year-old actress and comedian is a Hollywood legend and as it turns out, Goldberg's life is a goldmine of bizarre stories and facts.
She used to be a phone sex operator: Goldberg made the shocking confession about her past on The View in 2011, adding that the money was "great".
Before she was famous, she also worked as a bricklayer and was a makeup artist in a mortuary.
She has a fear of flying: According to IMDB, Goldberg was working at a cafe as a waitress in San Diego in 1978 when she saw a commercial airliner collide with a Cessna killing 144 people. Ever since then, she's had a fear of flying and prefers to travel by bus instead.
She has no eyebrows: Have you ever noticed that before? No eyebrows at all. Zip. Zilch. Apparently she shaves them off.
She is dyslexic: Goldberg wasn't diagnosed with the disorder until she was an adult. "When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia," Goldberg said according to the BBC. "They called it … you know, you were slow or retarded or whatever."
Is a former drug addict: "I was young, homeless and addicted to heroin," Goldberg told The Telegraph in 2009 about her troubled past. "I'd dropped out of high school and into drugs. Simple as that. I was a child of the Sixties so I ingested as many mind-altering substances as I could. It was a rite of passage. And when I got clean I was convinced I wanted to be an actor."
https://www.news.com.au/things-you-never-knew-about-whoopi-goldberg/news-story/9d76894131ae6f2572c4322b319326ef