Whoopi Goldberg abruptly cuts off Charlie Sheen drug abuse talk

Whoopi Goldberg put an end to a heated discussion on The View over Charlie Sheen and his public history of substance abuse.

Goldberg, Joy Behar, Alyssa Farah Griffin, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines launched into a debate over his father Martin Sheen’s decision to turn the actor over to the authorities for a probation violation after he overdosed in the late 90s.

Appearing on Good Morning America previously this week, Sheen claimed it was “the biggest betrayal you could possibly endure,” but he saw it “as love eventually.”

Goldberg asked the others, “In his condition, of course he saw it as a betrayal. Would you think of it as a betrayal?”

Behar agreed with the younger Sheen, saying, “In my view, as an Italian mother, you do not turn your children in — especially if they have a drug problem or a mental health problem, you send them to a shrink or the hospital. You don’t call the police. Martin Sheen made a big mistake. Your child is suffering, they have an illness, you do not send them to [jail]. Sorry!”

Griffin strongly disagreed, explaining, “I respectfully, totally disagree. My sister’s a recovering addict, which I’ve shared before. She’s 12 years clean now. But the most loving thing a parent can do is tough love and get you off the streets and get you the health that you need. You are a danger to yourself.”

Haines chimed in, adding, “You’re not thinking clearly, you’re not reasoning. Like he said, ‘I eventually saw it as love.’ It took him time, cleaning up, getting out of it to actually be able to look at it. But I don’t call it tough love, I call it love love. I think sometimes parents bury the bodies, don’t turn the kid in, enable the child…”

The debate grew heated, with Hostin blaming the older Sheen for his actions when Goldberg cut in, “I’m sorry, I’m going to shut this down right now. I’m going to shut this down!”

She continued, “Because if you don’t think they did everything? When I tell you, they did everything to get him straight. This was the last straw. Because there was nothing left. And what they didn’t want, and thank God it didn’t happen, is they didn’t want him to die on the street. So that’s why that went down. But you know, every family has to handle this differently because every addiction is different.”

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