Whoopi Goldberg recalls horrifying moment a hotel maid found her with COCAINE 'all over' her face - as she reveals how drug-fueled Hollywood parties turned her into a 'very high-functioning addict'

Whoopi Goldberg has revealed that a hotel maid once found her in the closet with cocaine 'all over' her face after she became a 'high-functioning' addict in the 1980s.

Whoopi, 68, opens up about her substance abuse in her new memoir, Bits And Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, And Me, where she also writes about her mom, Emma, being sent away to a psychiatric hospital for two years.

Recalling the height of her addiction to cocaine, the Sister Act star reportedly wrote that she believed she could handle the drug because it didn't seem as dangerous as heroin, which she had previously been hooked on in the 1970s.

According to The US Sun, Whoopi explains in her new book how after moving to Los Angeles, she would attend parties in Hollywood, Bel Air, and Beverly Hills, where a bowl of Quaaludes would greet her at the door and lines of cocaine would be laid out for guests.

Whoopi Goldberg reportedly opens up about her cocaine addiction in her new memoir, Bits And Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, And Me

Whoopi, pictured here in 1985, says she was a 'very high-functioning addict' after moving to Los Angeles

The actor, pictured here at the age of 30 in March 1986, said lines of cocaine would be laid out for guests at the parties she was attending in Hollywood

The mother-of-one, whose first husband Alvin Martin was her drug counselor, explained that at the time she was a 'very high-functioning addict' because she would still show up to work.

However, about a year in Whoopi says that she realized she was getting 'sloppy' when it came to being on set and says a horrifying incident in a Manhattan hotel room was a real 'slap-in-the-face' moment for her.

She described how she was sitting on the closet floor sniffing cocaine on her own, when a maid knocked on the door and let herself in.

'I screamed, she screamed and backed up and looked like she was going to run,' Whoopi explained.

'I had to get to her quickly and try to calm her down. She was staring at my face as I talked,' The View host continued, before admitting she then looked in the mirror and realized that she had cocaine 'all over' her face.

'I'd have been so embarrassed if my mother knew the extent the coke had me in its clutches.'

Elsewhere in the candid memoir, the Oscar winner says she saved her mother, Emma, from taking her own life shortly before she was carted off to New York City's Bellevue psychiatric hospital when Whoopi was just eight years old.

In the book, which will be released on May 7, Whoopi - whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson - describes the day when she came home from school and found her mother looking 'disheveled' and barefoot while 'muttering incoherently' and being confused about where she was. 

She writes: 'I watched as she went over to the oven, turned it on, and put her head in there. I was old enough to know this was really bad news. I ran over and grabbed her around the waist and pulled her out.' 

Whoopi pictured with her daughter and her second husband, David Claessen, in Hollywood in 1986

In the book, Whoopi reveals how her mother, Emma, was sent away to a psychiatric hospital

Whoopi also writes about older brother Clyde in the book, who sadly died of a brain aneurysm in May 2015

During Wednesday's episode of The View, Whoopi opened up about such extracts from her new memoir during an interview with the panel, including Joy Behar.

Joy, 81, said: 'You write in the book that when you were a kid your mother had what they used to call a nervous breakdown? She had a difficult, difficult time and she taken to Bellevue, that's scary right there.

'And you didn't really know what happened to her for two years, right? And then she came back and she didn't really remember the two of you? Who was taking care of you and Clyde?' she asked, referring to Whoopi's older brother, who was 14 at the time.

'Our cousin, Arlene, she took care of us, and my dad showed up and he took care of us, but in those days kids were told nothing, parents just disappeared, things happened,' Whoopi explained.

'And for me it was really kind of like, "Oh, so they've taken her to this hospital and no one's going to tell me anything and I can't go see her,"' the Sister Act star continued.

'They just never mentioned it because you didn't do that, but we didn't know any better, we didn't know that. Now we discuss everything with children and maybe that's not the greatest thing to be doing.'

When Joy asked Whoopi what happened to her mom at Bellevue, the Ghost actor confirmed: 'They gave her electroshock treatments.'

Turning to the live studio audience, Whoopi then said: 'So, here's another reason why you must really pay attention to what's going on politically because there was a time in this country where your husband or your brother or any man involved in your life could make medical decisions for you.

'So my mother's father, my grandfather, and my dad okayed it. They okayed that my mother get the shock treatment for two years.'