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Whoopi Goldberg isn’t buying it.
The EGOT winner weighed in on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s claim that they were involved in a terrifying car chase with paparazzi — and she’s not #TeamSussex.
“Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were followed by paparazzi while leaving the Ziegfeld Theatre. Their spokesperson called it a ‘near-catastrophic car chase,'” Goldberg said on “The View” Thursday while making a face, causing the studio audience to chuckle.
“Others said it wasn’t bad,” she continued, “but I think people in New York know if it was possible to have car chases in New York, we’d all make it to the theater on time.
“But I think their spokesperson referenced something that you generally would reference in Los Angeles. That’s where you have chases. That’s where you can move at high speeds.”
While Goldberg, 67, conceded that the royal couple “were dealing with aggressive paparazzi,” she added, “It just doesn’t work in New York.”
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Fellow panelist Joy Behar agreed with the “Sister Act” star.
“Sometimes I’m in the city, and I hear an ambulance trying to get through, and I think, ‘That person is dead,'” she said.
But not everyone on the panel was in agreement.
“No one ever claimed that there was a high-speed chase, and I think when we think about chases, we think about high-speed chases,” Sunny Hostin argued, noting that Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, died at age 36 in a 1997 car accident that involved paparazzi.
“If they felt scared, I will grant them that. … When you look at a situation like this, where his mother died of a catastrophic car chase and he knows that and [Markle] knows that, I wouldn’t wanna be in a situation where e-bikes and sedans are sort of following me aggressively around the city,” the lawyer, 54, continued.
On Tuesday evening, Markle, 41, was honored by Gloria Steinem at the Women of Vision Awards in Manhattan.
Harry and the “Suits” alum’s mother, Doria Ragland, were surprise guests cheering her on.
But after leaving the ceremony, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex claimed to have been followed by “a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi” in a harrowing two-hour ordeal.
“This relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two NYPD officers,” their spokesperson said in a statement to Page Six on Wednesday.
A source, meanwhile, exclusively told us that the “horrific” incident was “absolutely shocking” and left the pair “very upset.”
However, the NYPD seemingly poured cold water on the claims.
“There were numerous photographers that made their transport challenging,” a police spokesperson began.
“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrived at their destination, and there were no reported collisions, summonses, injuries or arrests in regard,” they continued.
A high-ranking police insider added to The Post, “We only had one car as part of this. [The chase] definitely wasn’t two hours.”
Harry and Markle, who moved to California in 2020 after quitting their royal duties, are estimated to spend at least $2 million to protect themselves and their children, Prince Archie, 4, and Princess Lilibet, 1, after Buckingham Palace revoked their security detail.