Whoopi Goldberg On Oscar Slap: “There Are Big Consequences Because Nobody Is OK With What Happened”

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Whoopi Goldberg, moderator of ABC’s The View and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors, said today that she accepts Will Smith’s apology for slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars Sunday, but that “There are consequences.

There are big consequences because nobody is OK with what happened. Nobody, nobody, nobody.”Goldberg also explained why producers did not publicly console Rock during the telecast, and said she supported producer Will Packer’s decision to not eject Smith from the event.Watch the entire View segment below.In The View‘s second day of discussing the slap, Goldberg, who is both a Board of Governors member and a former Oscar host, said today that she would not disclose details about what the Academy had discussed or was planning as a response to the headline-making incident.“I’m not going to talk to you about what’s going on with the Oscars,” Goldberg said in response to co-host Sunny Hostin when Hostin broached the subject of taking away the Oscar Smith won Sunday. “There should be some sort of consequence,” Hostin said. “It shouldn’t be taking his Oscar, it shouldn’t be cancelling him…”At that point, Goldberg interjected, “Let me say this.

There are consequences. There are big consequences because nobody is OK with what happened. Nobody, nobody, nobody. What’s happening is people are now starting to calm down and say Wait a minute, what could have triggered this?

Could have been the four years ago, could have been anything.” (The “four years ago” was a reference to prior jokes Rock made about Will and Jada Pinkett Smith).Goldberg also addressed why no one appeared onstage to approach or comfort Rock after the slap, while various stars, including Denzel Washington,