Actor-writer Jenny Mollen’s odd parenting post and the surrounding controversy made no sense to The View’s Whoopi Goldberg. So, instead of taking a stand on the controversy, she simply chose to narrate all that happened, leaving it to the audience to figure out what to make of it.
The controversy stems from Mollen’s May 25 Instagram post showing her cuddling with her 12-year-old son just weeks after she split from her husband, American Pie star Jason Biggs, following nearly two decades of marriage.
Even The View’s Whoopi Goldberg didn’t know what to make of Jenny’s strange post
“I don’t understand any of this, so I’m just going to say what’s there,” Goldberg said before starting to narrate the chain of events.
More than the photo, the caption—which Mollen later deleted—triggered the controversy. It read: “Your eldest son will be the most toxic guy you’ll ever date.”
After people started criticizing the post and her taste, the 47-year-old New York Times bestselling author defended herself, saying, “I stand by this!”
The controversy refused to die down. The reactions ranged from saying that the photos show “a mother being affectionate with her child” to calling them “creepy and wildly inappropriate.”
Mollen also blamed her ‘single’ status for the backlash. “It’s like because I’m getting separated, because I’m not protected by the institution of marriage, I’m suddenly like a different kind of target in what I’m posting,” she wrote.
During the show, Goldberg said that she neither understood the photos nor everything else that happened around them. “So, I’ll just throw it to y’all,” she said.
Among other co-hosts, Sara Haines defended the caption as typical of Mollen’s style. Sunny Hostin, mom to a boy, asked, “If that were a mother hugging her daughter, would the reaction have been the same?”
However, Kara Swisher and Alyssa Farah Griffin cautioned about parents sharing too much about their children online.
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