Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for using Romany slur on ABC’s The View

Whoopi Goldberg: ‘When you’re a certain age, you use the words that you know from when you were a kid … and that’s what I did today, and I shouldn’t have.’ Photograph: Andy Kropa/Invision/AP

Whoopi Goldberg has issued an apology following her use of a racial slur during an episode of ABC’s The View.

On Wednesday, Goldberg used a derogatory term associated with Romany people while discussing former president Donald Trump, saying that his supporters are “people who still believe that he got gypped somehow in the election”.