<p id=”par-1_64″>Whoopi Goldberg is known for her candid responses and shocking confessions on <em>The View</em>, and her recent remarks regarding dating didn’t disappoint. <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/the-view-star-whoopi-goldberg-reflects-on-why-she-got-married-three-times-i-wanted-to-feel-normal.html/”>Goldberg has been married</a> three times. However, she remains single in 2026 — and she’s loving it. Here’s what she said about doing “hit and runs” at the bar and hooking up casually while speaking to her co-hosts about their love lives.</p>
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<p id=”par-2_61″>Whoopi Goldberg and her co-hosts on <em>The View</em> just got real about long-term relationships and casual sex. During the show that aired on March 18, they discussed a woman who spoke to Cosmopolitan about how she misses her single life despite being in a loving, long-term relationship. Goldberg explained how the woman claimed to have missed bar-hopping and casual flings. </p>
<p id=”par-3_35″>Goldberg then explained to the others on <em>The View</em> that she was single in 2026. Joy Behar asked Goldberg whether she went “bar hopping or any of that stuff.” Goldberg clarified that she did. </p>
<p id=”par-4_29″>“I bar hop, I go hand, and I do hit and runs when I need it,” Goldberg noted. “But I am not married to anybody. I don’t have responsibility.”</p>
<p id=”par-5_90″>Sarah Haines then chimed in as a married woman. She noted that she didn’t miss “the effort of a fling or a bar hop,” but she missed “a binge where I can sit and eat my ice cream and no one’s watching, and I can watch whatever I damn want, not have to write one single person about where I’m going for my day.” Haines explained how she missed having fewer responsibilities as a single person. However, she admitted that being single “sounds exhausting if you’re looking for someone.” </p>
<p id=”par-6_65″>Sunny Hostin added that she’s living “the good life” when her husband goes out of town. “I’m an empty nester now, and I will tell you when Manny goes away on trips, I am walking around my home in a caftan,” she admitted. “In my caftans with jazz playing, and I’m drinking my Belle Glos wine and the good life, man, it’s a good life.”</p>
<p id=”par-7_41″>Guest co-host Sara Elsen noted that she waited until her 30s to get married, giving her “some fun 20s.” She added that it’s fun to fantasize about the days of “pre-stretch marks” and “going out on a date with new people.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-the-sister-act-actress-said-she-wasn-t-having-any-fun-in-her-past-marriages”>The ‘Sister Act’ actress said she ‘wasn’t having any fun’ in her past marriages</h2>
<p id=”par-8_26″>Whoopi Goldberg has good relationships with her exes. However, she admitted in a past episode of <em>The View</em> that she “wasn’t having any fun” while married.</p>
<p id=”par-9_36″>“It had nothing to do with the divorce, I was just glad to get the hell out of there,” Goldberg said, according to <a href=”https://people.com/whoopi-goldberg-always-having-great-sex-past-marriages-11704369″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>People</a>. “I was always having great sex, I just wasn’t having any fun.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_36″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/the-view-who-are-whoopi-goldbergs-ex-husbands.html/”>Goldberg married her first husband</a>, Alvin Martin, in 1973. They divorced in 1979. She then married cinematographer David Claessen before divorcing two years later. In 1994, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/why-whoopi-goldberg-said-her-3rd-husband-will-be-her-last.html/”>she married Lyle Trachtenberg</a>. The couple divorced the next year.</p>
<p id=”par-11_84″>“I’m in touch with every one of them, because once they were my friends,” she previously noted of her exes. “It doesn’t mean that we talk all the time, but I will be respectful enough for you. I don’t have to sleep with you, I don’t have to eat with you — I don’t have to do any of those things that a relationship forces. But I can be [friendly], because there’s nobody that I’ve lived with or messed with that I absolutely hate.”</p>