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Goldberg recalled her friendship with Reeve during an interview with his adult children on 'The View' Ethan Miller/Getty; Marleen Moise/Getty; Robin Platzer/getty opened up about friendships with the late actors and . Goldberg, 68, and co-hosts and were joined by , Matthew, 44, Alexandra, 40, and William, 32, during the of the daytime talk show to talk about the upcoming documentary . (The actor welcomed Matthew and Alexandra with his former partner , and William with wife Dana.
) “My friend Whoopi popped up,” Hostin, 55, said. “He directed Whoopi and in 1997’s , one of his first projects after the accident about the AIDS crisis ..
. Whoopi, what do you remember working with Chris?” Related: The View/abc “Well, I was shocked that he called me,” Goldberg, who is among the celebrities interviewed in the film, began. “I was like, ‘Are you sure?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, I want you.
’ I was like, ‘Okay,’ ” she said. “He said, ‘Don’t you wanna know what it is?’ I said, ‘No. No.
I don’t want to know. Whatever you want.’ ” Reeve’s directorial debut also starred Robert Sean Leonard and Bridget Fonda.
The made-for-television movie chronicled the final days of a young man, Danny (Leonard), who was diagnosed with late-stage AIDS. Goldberg remarked on how fortunate she was to have Reeve and Williams as friends. “I was lucky enough to have Robin and Christopher in my life, yeah, and so to me, those two men were rocks.
They were rocks for me,” she said. Related: “I didn't see them all the time, but they were never far from my soul because they taught us how to actually figure out how to move forward,” Goldberg continued. “I just had the greatest time.
Had the greatest time. I was lucky.” in August 2014.
Reeve died from heart failure at age 52 in October 2004, nine years after a spinal cord injury left him paralyzed, in a wheelchair and dependent on a ventilator to breathe. "Robin was Dad's best friend, and you show up for your friends," . "What shone through in that was just their love and respect for each other, and that never wavered.
" Fotos International/Frank Edwards/Getty Images Related: The documentary includes interviews with Goldberg, , and Close. in the documentary, noting, “I always felt that if Chris was still around, Robin would still be alive.” Along with conversations with Reeve’s friends and family, there is archival footage of Williams and Reeve’s late wife Dana, who from lung cancer.
airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/PT on ABC.
is in select theaters on Sept. 21 and will have an encore presentation on Sept. 25, which would have been the actor's 72nd birthday.
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