Whoopi Goldberg[1]'s stage name has quite the back story. The 68-year-old performer, whose birth name is Caryn Elaine Johnson, says she initially planned to go by the name "Whoopi Cushione" in the early days of her career.
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The moniker, of course, servesRead more https://www.etonline.com/whoopi-goldberg-shares-how-her-stage-name-came-to-be-i-was-whoopi-cushione-229346