Whoopi Goldberg explained that people likely didn’t mean to stand up for Will Smith after the slapping incident, and shouldn’t be penalized.
Whoopi Goldberg explained that she was understanding of people who stood during Will Smith’s Oscars acceptance speech during a discussion about the Academy’s statement, saying he was asked to leave after he slapped Chris Rock, on The View on Thursday March 31. “I think it was just people just got up and did dumb stuff, because they’re like, ‘Okay, everybody’s up.’ I give the benefit of the doubt, because I’ve been in these situations,” she explained. Earlier in the conversation, Whoopi had said that everyone at the show must have been “stunned” just as any viewer was, and they probably were unsure of what to do with the situation. Given the standing ovation, guest co-host Tara Setmayer explained that by Will receiving a standing ovation, it further showed why some people consider “Hollywood elites” to be “hypocrites.
