--- title: Leslie Jones Thanks Whoopi Goldberg For Inspiring Her description: In an interview on 'The View,' Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones credits Whoopi Goldberg for inspiring her to go into entertainment. canonical: https://time.com/4407975/leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-the-view/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-15T15:45:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:57.068Z og:title: Leslie Jones Tells Whoopi Goldberg 'I Love You From My Heart and My Soul' og:description: Jones called Goldberg her 'shero' og:url: https://time.com/4407975/leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-the-view/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eac04f6491fab0c/69889c1f0b72e351c46ea347/leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-ghostbusters.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-ghostbusters og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Leslie Jones Tells Whoopi Goldberg 'I Love You From My Heart and My Soul' twitter:description: Jones called Goldberg her 'shero' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eac04f6491fab0c/69889c1f0b72e351c46ea347/leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-ghostbusters.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Leslie Jones Tells Whoopi Goldberg 'I Love You From My Heart and My Soul' by [Jessie Van Amburg](https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/) ## Jessie Van Amburg Jul 15, 2016 3:45 PM UTC  Jeffrey Mayer/Getty Images; Ilya S. Savenok—Tribeca Film Festival/Getty Images by [Jessie Van Amburg](https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/) ## Jessie Van Amburg Jul 15, 2016 3:45 PM UTC SNL actress Leslie Jones appeared on [_The View_](https://www.facebook.com/TheView/videos/10153636738296524/) Thursday promoting her new film, [Ghostbusters](http://time.com/4399395/review-the-new-ghostbusters/). One of the hosts, [Candace Cameron Bure](http://motto.time.com/4266354/candace-cameron-bure-comfort-zone/), mentioned that she’d heard Jones was a fan of cohost Whoopi Goldberg. “Ok, I’m gonna do this without trying to get emotional,” Jones said. She explained that loved listening to and watching comedy growing up. “The day that I saw Whoopi Goldberg on television, I cried so hard, because I kept looking at my daddy going, ‘Oh my God! There’s somebody on TV that looks like me!'” Jones said. “‘I can be on TV! I can do it! Look at her, look at her! She looks just like me.'” She told Goldberg that her dad recorded the comedy special for her and Jones would watch it “every day after school.” “I just wanna thank you from the bottom of my heart,” Jones said to Goldberg. “Because now I know what I’m doing when I put on that ‘Ghostbusters’ suit, and little girls see _me_ on TV now, now they’re gonna go, ‘I can do it.’ You gave me that.” She thanked Goldberg for her contributions to comedy and for “what you’ve done for black women.” Jones has been candid about her struggles getting her career started. “As soon as I touched the mic I knew that’s what I would do for the rest of my life,” she told [People](http://www.people.com/article/leslie-jones-talks-childhood-insecurities) in an exclusive interview. But she said she had long periods of self-doubt, coupled with insecurities about her looks. “I love you from my heart and my soul,” Jones said to Goldberg. She later [tweeted](https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/753627848469012480) that Goldberg was her “shero.” Watch the full segment from _The View_ below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4407975/leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-the-view/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4407975/leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-the-view/"},"headline":"Leslie Jones Tells Whoopi Goldberg 'I Love You From My Heart and My Soul'","datePublished":"2016-07-15T15:45:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:57.068Z","description":"Jones called Goldberg her 'shero'","url":"https://time.com/4407975/leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-the-view/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eac04f6491fab0c/69889c1f0b72e351c46ea347/leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-ghostbusters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessie Van Amburg","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7eac04f6491fab0c/69889c1f0b72e351c46ea347/leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-ghostbusters.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"leslie-jones-whoopi-goldberg-ghostbusters","caption":"leslie jones whoopi goldberg the view interview","creditText":"Jeffrey Mayer/Getty Images; Ilya S. 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