'A Different World' reunion on 'The View' saw Debbie Allen credit Whoopi Goldberg's HIV/AIDS awareness episode with saving 'millions of lives' as 'advertisers were pulling out.'
"It was the truth, because advertisers were pulling out," Debbie Allen told Goldberg during a "Different World" reunion on "The View."Entertainment Weekly's Oscars expert, 'RuPaul's Drag Race' beat reporter, host of 'Quick Drag' Twitter Spaces, and cohost of 'EW's BINGE' podcast. Almost all of the drag content on this site is my fault .
"We’d never had to show a script to an advertiser," Allen recalled. "It was our highest-rated episode." Goldberg beamed as Allen spoke about her contributions to the show, before pointing out another important element of the beloved sitcom's impact on pop culture during its run from 1987-1993. "Folks needed a job, but this was also a unique opportunity that did not present itself, and you know that because you only saw one show full of characters who were brown, about a school, a college, some place you didn’t see us on television," Goldberg said. "It’s just a reminder. Any time Debbie asks me to do something, I just said yes."as Maggie, Huxtable's eventual roommate.
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