Whoopi Goldberg returned to her seat on The View after an extended absence on Monday (December 1) and shared what she’d been up to during her time away from the panel.

Goldberg had been absent from the talk show for two weeks, working instead in Naples, Italy, as a guest star on the Italian soap opera Un Posto Al Sole .

“I learned a lot because I’d never done a soap opera,” Goldberg said of the experience. “Doing a soap opera in a different language, in a different country, yeah [it] made for a really interesting time.”

She then noted that she had been sending behind-the-scenes videos of her time in Italy to her cohosts, joking, “I just wanted y’all to know I was actually working!”

Goldberg also revealed that her experience in the Boot was tainted a bit by the weather. “It ra

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