During the Hot Topics segment on “The View” this past Monday, co-host Whoopi Goldberg criticized actress Bella Thorne, 21, over a recent scandal involving nude photos Thorne had taken of herself. After a hacker obtained the photos and threatened to release them publicly, Thorne posted the photos to her Twitter account to head off possible extortion.
Goldberg was critical of the decision to release the photos, but more so of the choice to take the photos in the first place. She said, “If you’re famous, I don’t care how old you are, you don’t take nude pictures of yourself.”
While other hosts of “The View” were more supportive of Thorne, Goldberg reiterated her position that it was naive to think intimate photos of yourself would be safe in the modern era of computer technology. She continued, “Once you take that picture it goes into the cloud and it’s available to any hacker who wants them … and if you don’t know that in 2019 that this is an issue, I’m sorry, your age does not [matter] … you don’t get to do that.”
Thorne responded to Goldberg’s comments in a series of tearful videos posted to Instagram on Tuesday. She begins by saying that she would be canceling an upcoming appearance on “The View,” saying she didn’t “feel like being beaten down by a bunch of older women for my body and my sexuality.”
She further criticized Goldberg saying “I hope you’re happy, I really do … you’re so crazy for thinking such terrible things on such an awful situation.”
She continues, “Shame on you, Whoopi, shame on you, and shame on you for putting that public opinion just out there like that for making every young girl for saying … if you take a sexy photo then it basically deserves to get leaked, don’t be surprised and all and don’t feel sorry for yourself.”
