Whoopi Goldberg recalls how she saved her mother from taking

Whoopi Goldberg recalls how she saved her mother from taking her own life before she was sent away to a psychiatric hospital for two years and given electric shock therapy: 'We were told nothing'

Writing in her new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me, the 68-year-old actor opens up about her childhood with her older brother Clyde and her mom Emma Johnson.

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