Whoopi Goldberg was branded an "old broad" during a live broadcast of The View and has now decided to "set the record straight"
The panellist, 67, was greeted with a cheering crowd as she entered the studio ahead of last Wednesday's broadcast, but not all audience members were supportive of her.
As Whoopi opened the show, someone in the crowd heckled her. Turning to them, she asked: "Did you just call me an old broad?"
The actress seemed to see the funny side as she told the audience: "It is Wednesday, and I am an old broad and happy about it."
However, Whoopi has now been forced to speak out about the incident after the wrong person was blamed for heckling her.
"Anyone who watches the show knows that we have the best studio audience and that they get fired up when we come out here, we count on that energy," she said on Wednesday's show.
Whoopi added: "So I'm setting the record straight about something that happened at the top of last week's show.
"During our walkout, an audience member yelled out, 'You old broad', which led us to joke around with the audience.
"We are on live television so the cameras show the audience laughing and applauding during our exchange, and focused on a different audience member than the one who actually yelled old broad.
"Which led to some folks incorrectly accusing this particular woman of incorrectly heckling me so I'm clearing this woman's good name.
"She's a loyal audience member, an upstanding citizen, and a View fan. You know, we can't do this show without the support of viewers like her and viewers like you, so please leave her alone!" Whoopi urged.
She added: "This was a jokey, light moment, relax everybody okay!"
Elsewhere in the show, The View hosts were left red-faced when a loud fart noise disrupted their live broadcast.
Whoopi had pointed to a puddle of water on Sara Haines' desk, prompting the 45-year-old to quickly jump up from her seat.
A very loud fart noise followed, with Alyssa Farah Griffin left awkwardly laughing and attempting to carry on the discussion.
"Whoopi!" Sarah exclaimed as she tried to clean up the spillage on her desk.
She added: "Whoopi spilled water and now it's on my pants."
Alyssa awkwardly laughed and said: "Oh. We had a little spillage on the other side of the table."
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