Whoopi Goldberg reveals the hilarious reason she got her name

Publish Date
Thursday, 16 February 2017, 1:24PM

While appearing on The Graham Norton Show Whoopi Goldberg revealed the hilarious reason behind the origins of her unusual name.

The actress, whose name is actually Caryn Elaine Johnson, admitted that she earned the nickname by acting like a 'whoopee cushion' while performing in theatres at the beginning of her career.

Sharing the story with Norton she said, "No one christened me that. I am Caryn but I was a bit of a farter! The theatres I was performing in were very small so if you were gassy you had to walk away farting and people would say I was like a whoopee cushion. I was sometimes quite noisy, never offensive!"

Who knew?!

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