Whoopi Goldberg made a sad announcement Tuesday morning on "The View": her mother, Emma Johnson, died on August 29 following a stroke.

Goldberg left the London production of "Sister Act" to return to the US following her mother's stroke.

On "The View" Tuesday, Goldberg described her mother, who got her Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education at NYU, as "one of the great women" and "one of the best people I've had the privilege of knowing."

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