During a recent broadcast of ABC’s “The View,” show co-host Whoopi Goldberg declared, as her co-hosts celebrated her 69th birthday with Charlotte Russe desserts, that a popular, family-owned Staten Island bakery refused to serve her because of her political views. The owner denies the allegations.

Speaking on the Wednesday, November 13 broadcast, Whoopi said that the Charlotte Russe desserts they were chowing down on, a classic New York City treat, were her mother’s favorite but that the order for her birthday almost fell through because the bakery disliked her political stance.

She declared, as the audience gasped, “Now, I should tell you, Charlotte Russe has no political leanings, and the place that made these refused to make them for me. They said that their ovens had gone down, all kinds of stuff, but folks went and got them anyway, which is why I’m not telling you who made them.”

Continuing, Whoopi went on to say, after lobbing the accusation the bakery’s way, “Perhaps they did not like my politics. But that’s okay, because you know what? Listen, this is my mother’s celebration. Pick these up and celebrate with me and my mom. Thank you everyone for celebrating my birthday today.”

The bakery owner, Jill Holtermann, strenuously denied the claims. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Holtermann said, “They’d asked us and we were having trouble with our boilers.” She then noted that she’d declined Whoopi’s orders because she “didn’t want to make a commitment that I can’t carry through.”

Holtermann noted that the bakery building is about a century old, so it frequently has equipment issues that get in the way of orders, making it difficult to take orders well in advance, as the boilers or other equipment could always fail at an unexpected time.

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