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There are two people in Alyssa Farah Griffin‘s life who would rather be alone than married to a man — her mom and Whoopi Goldberg.
On this morning’s episode of The View, the co-hosts discussed the increase in American women who choose to remain single, prompting Whoopi Goldberg to ask the panel if the “stigma of not being married” is finally gone.
“I took it more as women are not putting off advancing who they want to be and building their lives waiting on men,” Griffin said. “I think there’s a lot of focal on, ‘You’ve got to find the man.’ But they’re building their careers, they’re trying to buy homes, they’re saving for their futures. And I think it’s more if a man comes along the way, they’re open to it.”
“Most women in my life are that way with the exception of Whoopi and my mom, who prefer to be single,” she continued, before adding, “But it’s more about creating the life you want and seeing if they come along the way.”
Goldberg ended the segment by telling the co-hosts, “It depends on what you want. I’m not interested. I like a hit and run, as I always say.”
The longtime View moderator previously revealed that she felt pressured into her three marriages, all of which ended in divorce.
Photo: ABC“It’s not for everybody,” she said in a December 2022 episode of The View. “I did it a couple of times. But the reason I did it is because the mores of our nation say, well you should be married. That’s how I grew up. You’re supposed to get married. But nobody said, ‘Unless it’s not for you.’ So I tried it a couple times to see if maybe it was something I was doing that was wrong, and what I was doing that was wrong was not admitting to the fact that I didn’t want to be married to anybody.”
Goldberg recently gave more insight into her failed marriages, telling Joy Behar, “I was always having great sex. I just wasn’t having any fun.”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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