‘The View’ Host Whoopi Goldberg Says She ‘Can’t Afford’ To Retire Because She Didn’t ‘Marry Well’—Despite Her Very Lucrative Real Estate Portfolio

"The View" host Whoopi Goldberg has claimed that she "can't afford" to retire from the hit talk show—blaming her three failed marriages for her need to continue working.

Goldberg, 69, whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson, put an end to rumors that she is set to end her 18-season run on the ABC daytime series, which is filmed in New York, insisting that she has no choice but to carry on her hosting duties if she wants to pay her bills.

The Oscar-winning actress—who has a net worth of $20 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth—told Entertainment Tonight that, because she did not "marry well," she is forced to carry on making her own living.

"If you don’t marry well, you got to keep working," the TV host, who has been married three times, said.

When the reporter suggested that Goldberg "could probably afford" to retire thanks to her longtime Hollywood career, the TV host replied, "No, not by now. Not yet. I gotta keep paying those bills, baby."

Meanwhile, Goldberg's co-host Joy Behar, who joined "The View" a decade before Goldberg in 1997, admitted that she, too, won't be retiring anytime soon—although she noted that her desire to remain on screen was due to her creativity.

“Creative people don’t retire, they don’t resign, they just keep going,” she said.

Despite Goldberg's insistence that she has not yet earned enough money to take a step back from the daily grind, she does boast a small fortune when compared to the average person. It includes a sizable mansion that is one of a host of properties the actress has bought and sold over the years.

However, her life has not always been quite so glamorous or lavish, beginning in a small unit in the Chelsea-Elliott Houses in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.

“My room was in the back, just a bed and a bureau and windows. It’s a great place to grow up, because we were outside 98% of the time, winter and summer. We all were poor, and we all knew it, but it somehow didn’t really stop us from doing anything," she previously told Vulture of her childhood abode.

Goldberg lived there until moving to California when she got married to Alvin Martin in 1973 at the age of 18. They welcomed a daughter, Alexandra Martin, in 1974.

Goldberg relocated to Berkeley in the '70s and held down many jobs before she made it big.

In the '80s, she snapped up a Victorian-style home for $335,000, which sprawled across 1,455 square feet and had a two-story barn.

She held that property for 30 years before selling it for $2 million in 2015.

During her ownership of that home, Goldberg, who split from her first husband in 1979, was married two more times—first to David Claessen in 1986, a marriage that lasted just two years, then to Lyle Trachtenberg in 1994.

She divorced Trachtenberg in 1995—and has since stated that she never wants to marry again.

"Some people are not meant to be married and I am not meant to. I'm sure it is wonderful for lots of people," she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2010.

Goldberg doubled down on that concept in 2016, when she told the New York Times that she values her personal space too much to share it with another person.

"I'm much happier on my own," she explained. "I can spend as much time with somebody as I want to spend, but I'm not looking to be with somebody forever or live with someone.

"I don't want somebody in my house."

Indeed, Goldberg's relationship with real estate has been much more concrete than her romantic ties—with the actress going on to add several other properties to her portfolio after purchasing her first house.

In the '90s, she snapped up an expansive Pacific Palisades property, this time paying $2.5 million. Proving her fondness for clinging to her favorite property finds, Goldberg kept that dwelling for 25 years before offloading it for $8.8 million in 2018.

In 2003, the TV host set her sights on a cozy Vermont getaway with 6,100 square feet, four bedrooms, and 3.5 bathrooms.

She sold the property in 2012 for $1.5 million.

In 2007, she picked up a full-floor loft in SoHo, which sprawled across 3,800 square feet, for $4 million. However, she sold it in 2010 for just under $3 million.

Goldberg's main residence is a New Jersey mansion that she snapped up in 2009 for $2.8 million.

The home, which was built in 1927, boasts eight bedrooms and measures 9,486 square feet.