​Comedian Whoopi Goldberg has admitted she smoked marijuana just before the 1991 Academy Awards ceremony, and said she was quite high when she gave her acceptance speech for winning Best Supporting Actress for her role in the movie Ghost.





The View explained in footage obtained by “Smoking cigarettes and pot every now and then are my habits,” the current host ofexplained in footage obtained by TMZ on Thursday. “And I thought, ‘I’ve got to relax,’ So I smoked a joint, my homegrown,” to calm down before the Oscars.

New York Post. She then described the shock be being announced as the winner and said she remembers trying hard to focus “to just get to the stage,” reports the

“When he [presenter Denzel Washington]said my name and I popped up, I thought, ‘Oh, fuck’ … OK, up the stairs … around to the podium … there’s millions of people, get the statue, pick up the statue,” Goldberg said.

This isn’t the first time Whoopi’s talked about pot in public. Back in 2009 she came to Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps’ defense after the infamous photo swept the Internet of Phelps hitting a bong.

“I have smoked weed,” Whoopi admitted at the time on The View. “That doesn’t surprise me that he’s smoking pot at a party … Pot is one of those things kids do try.”

“He’s being paid to be a spokesperson for companies,” Goldberg said of Phelps. “That’s different than being someone’s role model … He’s being asked to be perfect — he’s not being paid for that. That’s not his job.”