Whoopi Goldberg Calls Out Meghan Markle Over Claim She Felt 'Objectified' On 'Deal Or No Deal'

Whoopi Goldberg is challenging some of Meghan Markle's comments about her stint on the NBC game show "Deal or No Deal."

On Wednesday's episode of "The View," Goldberg reacted to Markle's claim on her podcast "Archetypes" that she felt "objectified" during her year-long stint as a "briefcase girl" on "Deal or No Deal" and eventually left the series because of these feelings.

The Oscar-winning actress questioned the Duchess of Sussex's revelations, saying she felt that the former actress was mistaken.

"On that show, you basically had a suitcase and they wanted to know: 'Is this the deal you want, or is this not the deal you want?'" Goldberg said to her "The View" co-hosts, according to People. "I don't know that the people who are sitting there are thinking about you like that. They're thinking, 'I want the money.'"

The "Sister Act" actress cited Vanna White, noting that the "Wheel of Fortune" hostess "is always in something interesting and beautiful, and she's been doing this." White was one of the three substitute hostesses of the show when hostess Susan Stafford left in 1982, and has since become the regular hostess.

"The objectification might be coming from you and how you felt about how these women were being portrayed, and that's what you have to change — because we're performers," Goldberg continued.

As "The View" roundtable continued to discuss Markle's comments, Goldberg explained that, "When you're a performer, you take the gig," which sometimes involves a "Bozo suit" or a "big nose," because that's "just the way it is" in Hollywood.

"We're not journalists, we're actors," she continued. "You left, and that was your prerogative. I feel bad, because I don't think people were looking at these girls like this, I think they want the money."

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin then suggested that Markle's words made her think about issues of fetishization of specific body types in the industry.

Goldberg, however, responded, "That's TV, baby. But, what did you think you were going to do? You know that's what the show was."

Goldberg concluded her statement by warning Markle against making "the other women feel bad, because they're trying to make a living, too." according to Entertainment Weekly.

On her podcast this week, Markle said she was grateful for her "Deal or No Deal" stint as it helped her pay the bills as she auditioned for acting roles but admitted that she was also conflicted about how it stacked up against her previous professional experience.

"I had also studied international relations in college, and there were times I was on set at 'Deal or No Deal' and thinking back to my time working as an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Argentina in Buenos Aires and being in the motorcade with the security of treasury at the time and being valued specifically for my brain," she said. "Here, I was being valued for something quite the opposite."

Markle said she eventually left the game show because she felt she was being "reduced to a bimbo."

"I would end up leaving with this pit in my stomach knowing that I was so much more than what was being objectified on the stage," she said. "I didn't like being forced to be all looks and little substance, and that's how it felt for me at the time — being reduced to this specific archetype called 'bimbo.'"