Whoopi Goldberg has returned to The View after a two-week suspension for remarks about the Holocaust.
Goldberg had been criticised for last month's comments on the daytime US talk show, where she said the Holocaust was not about race, but rather about man’s inhumanity to others.
She apologised, but ABC News president Kim Godwin told her to sit out two weeks.
"I want to thank everybody who reached out while I was away," Goldberg said at the opening of Monday’s show.
"I'm telling you, people reached out from places that made me go, 'Wait, wait, what? Really? OK.' I listened to what everybody was saying and I was grateful."
She did not specify any of the people who contacted her.
Jewish leaders had criticised her initial statement, noting that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had referred to Jewish people as an inferior race.
Millions of Jewish people were murdered by Germany's Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
Goldberg apologised online the night she made the remark, and on the next day’s show.
"Yes, I am back," Goldberg said as she took the stage with her co-hosts on Monday.
"There is something kind of marvellous about being on a show like this because we are The View and this is what we do," she said.
"Sometimes we don't do it as elegantly as we could. But it’s five minutes to get in information about topics and that’s what we try to do every day."
She said the hosts would continue to have tough conversations.
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