Whoopi Goldberg’s SAD NEWS
In a spine-tingling episode of “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg bared her harrowing journey with endometriosis, leaving viewers on the edge of their seats. She passionately questioned why women suffer for years before a diagnosis, venting her frustration at the healthcare system. Goldberg, 67, recounted her own terrifying experience—initially misdiagnosed with a UTI, she neglected the symptoms until an alarming turn.
“I didn’t know what was going on,” Goldberg revealed, her voice trembling.
“Suddenly, there was a smell, and it looked like cottage cheese.” But the shocking twist came when she said, “I was lucky enough to get to somebody who said, ‘This is called endometriosis.’” Is Whoopi Goldberg’s revelation a cryptic cry for help?
The mystery deepens as she questions the medical education system.
Endometriosis affects millions, yet diagnosis takes an agonizing 6-10 years.
Join the suspense as Goldberg joins the list of celebrities shedding light on this enigmatic affliction. Is she a survivor, or does danger still lurk?
Celebrities with Endometriosis
Lena Dunham
The creator and star of the HBO series Girls has been dealing with endometriosis pain for more than a decade. She’s had eight surgeries and tried many other treatments, including acupuncture and pelvic floor therapy, before making a controversial choice. In early 2018, at the age of 31, Dunham had a hysterectomy. She wrote a deeply personal essay for Vogue about her decision.
Padma Lakshmi
It took 23 years for doctors to take this food writer, actress, and model seriously and diagnose her with endometriosis. She said at a fundraiser this year that she had “so much heavy bleeding, cramps, nausea, backaches and digestive issues that I was stuck in bed one week out of every month when my period came.”
In 2009, she founded the Endometriosis Foundation of America, an advocacy group. The next year, she gave birth to a daughter.
Susan Sarandon
This actress was given what she calls an incomplete diagnosis after dealing with fainting and bleeding for years. Her doctors put her on birth control pills and painkillers. She went on to have three children and says she’s “one of the lucky ones.”
Sarandon tells women to listen to their bodies and act on what they feel.
“This isn’t part of being a woman,” she said at an Endometriosis Foundation event in 2016. “Something can be done.”
Jillian Michaels
Michaels, a personal trainer and television personality best known for her role on The Biggest Loser, learned early on that she had endometriosis and polycystic ovaries, and that having a child could be a problem for her.
Michaels adopted a daughter in 2012, and her then-fiancée Heidi Rhoades gave birth to their son the same year.
Cyndi Lauper
This Grammy-winning recording artist had endometriosis in her 30s. “I would do an album and go to hospital, then do another album and go to hospital,” she told The Independent. She struggled with infertility as a result. After seeing a fertility doctor who gave her acupuncture, Lauper gave birth to her son Declyn at age 44.
Julianne Hough
This Dancing with the Stars champ ignored her pain for years. Then in 2008, she doubled over from abdominal pain that, she told People, “felt like a knife was being stabbed in me.” So she agreed to go to the hospital. She had surgery to remove an ovary her appendix, and scar tissue on her bladder and fallopian tubes.
She has had some of her eggs frozen in hopes of having a family one day.
Tia Mowry
Best known for her starring role on the ’90s sitcom Sister, Sister, Mowry has had two surgeries and follows an anti-inflammatory diet to control her endometriosis. She has struggled with fertility issues but went on to have a son, Cree, in 2011, and a daughter, Cairo, in 2018.