Whoopi Goldberg clarifies that she wants to rest in peace once she’s deceased.
During a recent episode of “The View,” the show’s co-hosts engaged in conversation regarding a Michigan court’s declaration of the validity of Aretha Franklin’s handwritten will. The will had been discovered under a sofa cushion, sparking a legal dispute between her sons.
Later in the conversation, Goldberg revealed that she had included a stipulation into her will that states that she refuses to be created into a digital hologram after her passing.
“I’m just going to be dust in the wind,” Goldberg said, while announcing that she prefers to be cremated. “I’m going to be going around the world, I’m going to be everywhere. I might be in your backyard – I don’t know.”
Co-host Joy Behar then asked the group if they cared on how they are honored following their deaths, which Goldberg emphasized a major non-negotiable.
“I don’t want to be a hologram,” she said. “That’s been in my will for 15 years.”
The 67-year-old actress added, “They don’t ask you, that’s the thing. They just do it, and then you go – ‘Hey, isn’t that Tupac? Wait a minute.’ I don’t want that. It’s a little freaky, creepy, yeah.”
Goldberg’s reference was directed towards the handful of celebrity holograms that have emerged in recent years for various performances. In 2012, the late rapper Tupac Shakur made a remarkable appearance as a hologram at Coachella. Years later, concerts featuring holograms of Whitney Houston were created utilizing archival images and recordings, resurrecting the late singer who tragically passed away in February 2012.
