Whoopi Goldberg relates to the struggles of the working class and says she would leave The View if she had enough money

Whoopi Goldberg works for a living. The View’s longest-running co-host admitted on Tuesday’s episode of the ABC show that she would quit if she had enough money. During a Hot Topic segment about Donald Trump’s second term as president, the 69-year-old, whose net worth is estimated to $60 million, compared her struggles to those of the working class.

Whoopi Goldberg says she would leave The View if she had enough money

Regarding the working class, The Color Purple star said: “I appreciate that people have a hard time. Me too. I work for a living.” She went on to explain that she would quit the daytime talk show she was on in 2007 if she had enough money to survive. “If I had all the money in the world, I wouldn’t be here, okay? So I’m a working person, you know?” Goldberg emphasized.

“My child has to feed his family. My great-grandson has to be fed by his family. I know it’s hard out there,” the Sister Act star continued, adding, “I love what (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) did. Yay. We’re talking the time with people who say, ‘That’s what bothers me.’ But what bothers everyone shouldn’t be what puts 85 percent of other people at risk. I think that’s what we’re saying.”

Goldberg’s remarks come as she faces backlash from grocery store owners for calling them “pigs.” “Your pocketbook is bad not because the Bidens did anything. Not because the economy is bad. Your grocery bills are what they are because the people who own the groceries are pigs,” she said on The View last week. The National Grocers Association, which represents more than 21,000 stores nationwide, objected to Goldberg’s comments, according to the New York Post.

In a letter to The View’s executive producer Brian Teta, NGA CEO Greg Ferrara slammed the host, saying, “We are deeply disturbed by these remarks … referring to people who own grocery stores as ‘swine.'” falsely portraying merchants as ‘gouging’ not only exacerbates these tensions, but also risks further harm to these frontline workers who have continued to serve the public through challenging times,” Ferrara added.