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Whoopi Goldberg reveals how Maggie Smith helped her after mother’s death

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Actor Whoopi Goldberg has talked about how her Sister Act costar Dame Maggie Smith helped her through a difficult moment in her life.

co-host was in in 2010 for the musical adaptation of the 1992 film when she took a call from her late brother, Clyde K Johnson, who said their mother had an aneurysm and was on life

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