Whoopi Goldberg transparently recalled a time when she was "depressing" in her early personal life.
The star had a full-circle moment as she spoke about her 1992 cover story for Interview Magazine in a new conversation with the outlet.
The Ghost actress read several candid statements that she made at the time, and then she reflected on them now.
© Getty ImagesIn one of the statements, she expressed how self-conscious she was and how she struggled to make friends.
She once stated: "I am incredibly insecure about me as a person, because I was kind of a weird kid. All I wanted to do was have some way to communicate with people and be friends with people, but my interests were always very different. And because of my inability to prove myself, really among my peers, I felt that I wasn't an adequate person."
Whoopi continued at the time and said: "I still carry that, and relationships are difficult because of it, because there are buttons that are big and easy to push that can send me into a tailspin."
© Getty ImagesThe entertainer recalled those difficult earlier times and commented on the younger version of herself, saying: "Jesus, what a depressing [expletive] I am. I mean, that's the most depressing [expletive] I've ever heard. Yeah, I was a weird kid. I'm still a weird kid. Now I don't give a [expletive] what people think."
The Sister Act star also reflected on the hardships she once faced when she used to be homeless in New York City.
She shared in the '92 interview: "I don't know what drives other people, but I've seen too much. I've been too many places. I've been down underneath the train tracks, sleeping in the subway, waking up covered in unidentifiable scum. I don't want people to have to do that. So I think that's what the voice says to me."
© Getty ImagesWhoopi looked back on her obstacle-filled journey and wisely commented: "What I've figured out is that everybody has their path, and sometimes it's going to lead people where they don't want to go, but that's where they have to go. That's their path. So, it's a [expletive] growing up, you know?"
The performer also spoke about aging back then and how she foresaw it affecting her acting career in the future.
© Getty ImagesShe revealed in the cover story: "I now have a voice that is heard above the din. And at any moment, because our industry is so dependent on people's whims and like and dislikes, because you're hot one year and then you're [expletive] for four years, and then you're hot suddenly again and people give a [expletive] I just kind of feel like I have to do something. I just…I have to."
Although Whoopi provided that insight decades ago, she agrees with it to this day and has confidently surrendered to aging.
She expressed: "Same old [expletive]. You're a person of a certain age and it's not your turn anymore. You're not the hottest thing in the room, and either you embrace it or you go, 'Well, that was a drag.' So, I embrace it. I'm getting older and I'm happy about it because the alternative sucks."
