Whoopi Goldberg, the 52-year-old ever smiling actress, who
won a best supporting actress Academy Award for her role as psychic Oda Mae
Brown in the 1990’s “Ghost,” said in US talk-show “The View” that Patrick
Swayze was the reason of her winning the Oscar.
During the show which has Goldberg as a co-host, the actress
and comedian said that Swayze told “Ghost’s” director, Jerry Zucker: “I’m not
making the movie unless you put Whoopi in there.” Furthermore, Whoopi added
that when winning the Academy Award “the only person I really thanked was
Patrick.”
Moreover, despite the fact that Goldberg hasn’t spoke to
Swayze about his health situation, she sent all her support to him. “We want
you to feel better- we’ll talk soon, I hope,” she said afterwards blowing a
kiss.
Even the rumors were that due to his pancreatic cancer,
Patrick Swayze will remain among us for only five more weeks, Dr. George Fisher,
said in a press statement that “Patrick has a very limited amount of disease
and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far.”
Whoopi Goldberg is not the only one to show support to
Swayze. His partner from the romantic hit “Dirty Dancing”, Jennifer Gray, told
the New York Post that she was absolutely “shocked” by the news and said that
even though she hasn’t spoke to him since the movie: “If I saw him on the
streets today, I’d throw my arms around him and love him up.”
Claire Sweeney, who appeared with Patrick in the 2006’s
“Guys and Dolls,” also expressed her support for the actor. “Patrick is a very
close friend, a kind and generous man and a true professional. I feel
privileged to have worked with him and honoured to have him and his wife Lisa
in my life as friends. My thoughts are with them both at this difficult time
and I hope with all my heart that he makes a full recovery,” she said