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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Whoopi Goldberg has overcome her fear of flying

    The 69-year-old star previously admitted she used to travel around the US in a giant tour bus to avoid getting on a plane, but after it was noted she has been jetting to places including the Bahamas and Italy in recent times, the Sister Act star has found something to relax her nerves enough to board a flight


    Speaking on The View, Whoopi's co-hosts were shown a picture of her sitting at the control board of a commercial plane over the holiday weekend, and she said: "I've been so many places. I was in the cockpit of a plane.

    "People keep saying, 'So what's happened? Now you seem to be able to fly?' The truth of the matter is I hated, hated, hated, hated it, for so many reasons, and then someone gave me something that allowed me to fly, and so I take it, and I am okay, and I don't cry!"

    Whoopi previously told how part of her fear of flying was in part due to a man dying on a plane next to her.

    She said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2005: "I've never been a good flier. A guy passed away next to me. This is not cute. And you don't know exactly that they're gone, because they just kind of slump, then he slumped onto me, and I'm like, 'Get off me!'

    "I called the stewardess and she said 'Sir, sir!' she kept patting him, and I said, 'Just pick him up, just pull him off me!' "

    After touching the man, the flight attendant admitted she thought the man was dead, and Whoopi replied: "Okay, we have to alter this reality, you've got to get him out of here."

    But she claimed she was told: "Well, the plane is booked up, we have no place to put him!"

    During the interview, Ellen admitted she was "flattered" her guest had made the lengthy trek from New York to Los Angeles by bus.

    Whoopi said: "It's kind of like a bus that Dolly Parton would be on, except there's some strange stuff on it, you know? I've got all kinds of weird little things on the bus, toys, a flatscreen TV, a big bed, dirty sheets, it's heaven."

    She noted the epic journey had taken her 43 hours.

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