has revealed that she didn't see her mother for two years from the age of eight because she was sent away to 's Bellevue psychiatric hospital after she attempted to take her own life.Writing in her new memoir, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, And Me, the 68-year-old actor recalls feeling 'protective and p**sed off' as neighbors watched as mom Emma Johnson was helped into an ambulance in the early 1960s.In the book, which will be released on May 7, Whoopi - whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson - describes the day when she came home from school and found her mother looking 'disheveled' and barefoot while 'muttering incoherently' and being confused about where she was.
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