
Rachel Bilson. Paras Griffin/Getty Photos
Rachel Bilson fired again after Whoopi Goldberg slammed her opinion {that a} man with lower than 4 sexual companions is “slightly bizarre.”
“I wish to say that I’ve been a fan of Whoopi’s for a really very long time, so once I noticed the tagline that she criticized one thing I stated, I in fact was involved,” Bilson, 42, instructed Leisure Weekly on Thursday, October 5, after saying she watched Goldberg, 67, talk about a latest episode of her “Broad Concepts” podcast on The View partly earlier that day.
Bilson defined: “I feel it’s vital to listen to a complete dialog earlier than casting your personal judgment or criticism on one thing.”
The O.C. alum insisted that her workforce makes the podcast “a really protected open place to debate something,” noting she and cohost and pal Olivia Allen “have been simply speaking” when the subject of sexual companions got here up on her Monday, October 2, episode.
“I’ve the facility to edit our podcast, and I selected to maintain the dialog as a complete in, as a result of loads of the time in life, you say one thing, and possibly you could have a minute and also you mirror on it,” Bilson continued. “The purpose I get throughout is that it doesn’t matter, and possibly up to now I might’ve checked out it [judgmentally], however I wouldn’t do this anymore. I made it clear that I don’t wish to sound judgmental, it was vital that that time get throughout, not what I stated initially.”
Bilson made headlines on Monday after she revealed on her podcast that she’d discover it “slightly bizarre” if a person in his 40s had “solely slept with 4 girls.” She then acknowledged that “all of it relies upon” on the individual, explaining that if the person’s been in a decade-long relationship then it’s “completely respectable.”
Bilson clarified throughout the broadcast that it wasn’t “honest” for her to go judgment on somebody’s intercourse life. She famous that whereas she used to ask males about their variety of previous companions, she “most likely wouldn’t” do this shifting ahead.

Whoopi Goldberg. ABC/Jeff Lipsky
Goldberg, for her half, weighed in on Bilson’s feedback throughout the Thursday episode of The View and took situation with the subject.
“I’m sorry, I feel it’s very odd that you simply’re involved that he’s had sexual companions — any sexual companions. Why is it what you are promoting?” Goldberg stated. “Pay attention, males, historically, have been taught to have many sexual companions. That’s the way it was. Males may go and do no matter they needed to do, and ladies weren’t purported to. Now, that has been shifting, and younger girls have been bitching about, , ‘Why are you telling me what I needs to be [doing?]’ Now, it’s occurring [the other way around] and also you’re mad. I don’t perceive.”
Wanting again on her remarks, Bilson instructed EW that it was “a flippant remark that I used to be simply speaking [about] with mates” that she then “retracted.”
The Hart of Dixie alum concluded: “As a result of even speaking about it now, I’m like, I don’t truly imagine that. That’s why I feel it’s vital to face up for it and make clear.”
Allen, in the meantime, backed her cohost, telling the outlet, “The truth that Rachel didn’t edit to make it current a sure approach is a real reflection of what precise conversations in actual life are. That’s considered one of our values, and I feel that if we’re going to proceed to try this, that folks ought to take heed to the entire episode earlier than passing judgment.”