WHOOPI Goldberg denies it was race issues that made her her high-profile match with Ted Danson scandalous.
''I don't think people jumped us because we were an interracial couple,'' the American actress and comic told New York Newsday.
''They jumped us for all the other reasons.
''It was the big, rich, very sexy man from Cheers and Whoopi, who was, like, considered asexual for the first nine years in Hollywood.'' Goldberg came under fire last year over ex-boyfriend Danson's appearance at a Friars Club Roast for her when he wore blackface and made racial jokes.
Goldberg is now engaged to union organiser Lyle Trachtenberg.
She's also starring in the film Corrina, Corrina opening on Friday. She plays a music school graduate in the 1950s.