Kirsty Young
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Let's take a break for some music.
What about disc number two?
What have we got?
Van Morrison and Jackie Wilson said, Whoopi Goldberg, you were dyslexic, you are dyslexic.
I suppose you never stopped being dyslexic.
No, you're always dyslexic.
But at school, I imagine that made things incredibly difficult.
And you didn't go to senior school at all, did you?
And your mum was fine with that?
So you had this kind of bespoke homeschooling in essence.
And you were shy.
Well, it just seems unlikely, that's all.
But you talk very easily.
You talk very fluidly.
You don't seem to trip on your words or your thoughts.
I'm wondering then about the woman I saw presenting the Oscars a few years ago.
Let's hear your next track then.
Tell me, Whoopi Goldberg, about the drugs.
When did the drugs happen?
Because they were in your teenage years.