Whoopi Goldberg has been absent from The View for more than a month — and today, she updated the hit show’s fans with a shocking update on her horrific health scare.

In a blue button-up top and green glasses, the 63-year-old host and actress revealed via a video message that she nearly died after her bout of pneumonia turned “septic.”

“Hey yes, it’s me. I am here,” she said in the clip on the March 8 episode of The View. “I am up and moving around. Not as fast as I’d like to be, ugh, but I am okay. I’m not dead.”

highly-anticipated return to her ABC job.

Joy Behar later claimed she was sick with pneumonia. But fans were not aware of the severity of her illness until now.

According to Us Weekly, the star most recently skipped a planned hosting gig at Love Rocks NYC, and no explanation for her absence was given.

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