Rumor Mill: White House Party Crasher Says Whoopi Goldberg Hit Her!!!

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Rumor Mill: White House Party Crasher Says Whoopi Goldberg Hit Her!!!

Posted at 08/05/2010 by Staff 0 Comment

To see video of Michaela Salahi on The Today Show, click HERE.
According to E! Online:

Who believes that Whoopi Goldberg got a little rough with Michaele Salahi today?

The View is up in arms over the Real Housewives of D.C. matron’s claim that Goldberg hit her during the show, calling Salahi’s accusation “completely unfounded and erroneous.” (Which is funny, because it looked as if all of her castmates really were raring to hit her throughout their appearance.)

Sure, they ended up in a “heated exchange backstage, “show rep Karl Nilsson said, but that’s only because Goldberg was forced to adamantly defend herself.

At first it appeared that Goldberg wasn’t even involved with the Housewives appearance at all, interviewing duties instead going to Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd.

But eventually the camera pans and you can see Goldberg from the back, walking backstage after apparently encouraging Salahi to return to the subject everyone wants to know about: she and hubby Tareq Salahi crashing a White House State Dinner.

“I felt someone touch me,” she remarked.

“That was Whoopi Goldberg,” Shepherd said. “She don’t come out unless she’s passionate about something.”

“Or hungry,” quipped Behar.

And then Salahi seemingly had bigger fish to fry, what with Shepherd telling her she thought the reality-TV wannabe should have gone to jail for getting that close to the president without an invite.

But according to the Daily Beast, Salahi later accused Goldberg of more than a nudge, prompting Goldberg to confront her, screaming, “I didn’t f—-ing hit you! Did you say I f—ing hit you?”

The Salahis’ lawyer, Lisa Bloom, told the website that the View host was “screaming and dropping the F-bomb many, many times. She also insisted that the Salahis were invited to that White House dinner and that Shepherd and Behar weren’t supposed to refer to the Salahis as party crashers, so Michaele “was very upset about this all day.”

But is she taking it out on Goldberg?

“Whoopi lightly touched Ms. Salahi to get her attention and said to her ‘Excuse me, can you get back to the White House, please,’ meaning could Ms. Salahi return to the original subject of the conversation,” said Nilsson, The View spokesman. “After the show, Ms. Salahi and her husband accused Whoopi of hitting Ms. Salahi.”

“As the broadcast clearly shows, the accusation was completely unfounded and erroneous,” Nilsson continued. “After the show and after being told she was being accused of hitting Ms. Salahi, Whoopi proceeded to defend herself verbally from this baseless claim in a heated exchange with the Salahis.”

Goldberg will air her thoughts on the matter on Thursday’s show. We feel this is one person she won’t be making excuses for.

Michaele Salahi, meanwhile, wrote on Facebook that she and Tareq would “address on Thursday Morning LIVE on National TV the outrageous abuse and exchange that took place on the ABC Show the View and a [sic] audio & video file from Whoopi Goldberg verbal attack to Michaele.”