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Whoopi Goldberg slams Stephen A. Smith for linking Serena Williams’ Super Bowl halftime cameo to ex Drake

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Whoopi Goldberg slams Stephen A. Smith for linking Serena Williams’ Super Bowl halftime cameo to ex Drake

 

Whoopi Goldberg grand-slammed Stephen A. Smith for linking Serena Williams’ 2025 Super Bowl halftime show cameo to her ex-boyfriend Drake.

 

 

“Why wasn’t it, ‘Damn, Serena was great’? Why is it about some ex-boyfriend she hasn’t thought of?” Goldberg asked her co-hosts on “The View” Tuesday.

“All you can think of is her ex-boyfriend? I don’t understand. Why would you even think it was [about Drake]? Why would you think she’s not smart enough?

“She got a chance to do something she wanted to do, and she went and did it,” she said, “and instead of saying, ‘Damn, that was kind of great,’ you’re bringing it back to some old stuff.”

Smith, 57, was in the doghouse after saying he would have divorced Williams, 43, for Crip walking to halftime headliner Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track “Not Like Us” at Sunday’s NFL championship game if they were a couple.

“If I’m married and my wife is going to join trolling her ex, go back to his ass,” the ESPN analyst said on the “First Take” podcast Monday.

“’Cause, clearly, you don’t belong with me. What you worried about him for and you’re with me? Bye. Bye.”

Goldberg pointed out Tuesday that Williams, who briefly dated Drake in 2011 and 2015, is “happily married” to Alexis Ohanian.

“Stop trying to make it about somebody’s man. It ain’t always about somebody’s man. It’s about the person. Forget all that other stuff. We do,” she said on the ABC talk show.

Goldberg’s co-host, Sara Haines, chimed in to agree with the “Sister Act” star and said Smith had it all wrong.

“I think it says more about the security of the man in the marriage than it would about that because even her husband was like, ‘Pretty fantastic halftime show.’ Like, it was awesome,” Haines said.

Sunny Hostin explained that Williams’ dance was a callback to when the athlete received backlash for doing the same move while celebrating her 2012 Olympics victory.

She took a lot of criticism for doing that,” Hostin said. “What she was doing was being her authentic self, an homage to her roots from Compton, and it was black joy and black excellence. You’ve got the greatest female athlete of all time coming out and enjoying herself.”

“The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out that if Williams had meant it as a slight to Drake, it would be warranted, as she pointed out that the “Hotline Bling” rapper, 38, has been “coming at [Williams] and her marriage in his songs for years.”

“He’s taken digs at her husband,” Griffin added. “I don’t even know that it counts as petty when he’s been deeply petty to you and you’re just clapping back.”

Williams herself has explained the meaning behind her halftime cameo — effectively shutting down claims that her moves had anything to do with Drake.

When @kendricklamar and team called and was like ‘we’ve been trying to do something forever, what about this? We loved your crip walk at the Olympics after you won the gold medal.’ I’m like Super Bowl? Are you serious? When in the world would I ever be able to dance at a superbowl? (Never) let’s do it!” she wrote on Instagram Tuesday.

“I knew my winning dance after the @olympics would pay off one day,” she said, adding bluntly, “End of story.”

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