Gabrielle Union On Finding Her 'Superpower' On Her 50th Birthday Trip To Africa | The View

Union tells "The View" co-hosts about documenting her trip for the special, "My Journey To 50."
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[@alexramirez9589]

There's NO WAY this woman is 50. She looks absolutely INCREDIBLE. Aging like fine wine

[@loufrank1574]

Adrenochrome

[@user-sv7fd6es6s]

I was thinking the same thing

[@nubieblack886]

​@@loufrank1574or just melanin my mom is just like her...

[@georgetteboateng5211]

As for we blacks we never crack

[@xerodeth542]

​@@georgetteboateng5211 Then why is Whoopi looking like her social security number is 2?

[@shashavengesayi6055]

No way she’s 50, I still don’t believe it. She looks better than ever. A beautiful place the motherland 🌍 is

[@alex-qd6of]

There's a reason she doesn't live there...

[@urssya951]

​@@alex-qd6of Yeah,but other ppl do. 😬

[@tpndgo2061]

Botox and other procedures make people look younger.

[@user-eh8go8bt6t]

@@jarhead7602go troll yourself rather than others. You’re not very good at it.

[@BriaBarrows]

She looks amazing

[@mariamerchanrocamora457]

This lady is 50!? She looks 20 years younger! Congratulations to her on her health and stunning beauty.

[@HH-gv8mx]

I wish I was wealthy so I could look 20 years younger! I have the body in shock. From being super athletic and eating really healthy. And as they say in the gym, you can have the body or the face, but not both she like everyone else in Hollywood has had a lot of work done to her face.

[@mariamerchanrocamora457]

@@HH-gv8mx You have a point, it's true it is really difficult to keep up without the means to do so. We should take pride in looking our age as well, now that I think of it- it's proof of everything we have successfully survived.

[@tamekarobinson1747]

@@HH-gv8mx ok who cares? She looks great. I don’t know why every time a celebrity looks good haters have to come and criticize. If you were more savvy you could probably make more money and afford cosmetic procedures instead of commenting on KZbin

[@HH-gv8mx]

@@tamekarobinson1747 I don’t need cosmetic procedures to Mika. Nor do I think that it’s a natural look. People, like you, think that that’s what aging naturally looks like. It doesn’t. I’m sure you don’t leave the house without your wig on and your fake eyelashes even to go to the gas station.🙄

[@wiilsansaylici8714]

She looks 20 years younger because she has kind amazing beautiful spirit no hate in her bones 💕❤️💯

[@shawnpreston1639]

This just confirms my trip to Africa this year!!! I’m from the Deep South and don’t know who I am or where I come from. I’m going to that exact river. I’m a 35 year old working professional whose at a crossroad in my life. I pray I leave with clarity and inspiration.🙏🏾

[@mushtaaqahmed2466]

Don’t forget as long as live you have hope

[@susisiebert5942]

Respect for you

[@Fluuuv]

Where are you visiting? Check out Senegal or Botswana. Super safe countries.

[@idivas_Tricia]

Get the 23 & Me test.

[@--ag]

You will be blessed 🙌 🙏

[@samuelwilliams8099]

As an African myself, watching this makes me emotional. I haven’t been to Ghana to witness this very location. But , as she was explaining her experience, I have goosebumps all over. Before I leave this world, I must visit this location it is on my to do list. . May God bless every black brothers and sisters all over the world.

[@pump1180]

Where did you watch it

[@defjam2001]

Ok fist NR 1 rasict NR. F#£&! Gabrielle Union for what she did to her SON. child abuse is what it is. Btw she couldn't care less about black people

[@daphnesmith1686]

Wonderful ❤

[@AnetJESUS]

May God bless all people and be careful not to worship your ancestors. Remember Africans were enslaved by other Africans & sold them into slavery. Other groups of people were enslave not just Africans.

[@pennyyeboah5281]

Makes two of us . As a Ghanaian, I don’t even know this place existed . Hmmm 😢

[@TheConfidenceFrequency]

Gabrielle is out here looking 20 years old! You go girl!

[@defjam2001]

Yeah and her son transforming to thanks to Gabrielle

[@princess_sprightly]

This segment made me cry and gave me the chills.

[@javiruiz8365]

Really!!!

[@natasharochelle3218]

Me too.

[@TempeSoldier123]

Yeah, me too. Let’s get dinner and talk about it. You like sushi?

[@urssya951]

​@@TempeSoldier123 😂 U funny

[@tpndgo2061]

Watch out for weirdos .

[@tracyheyward5125]

I was in the front row, so close that I could hand Whoopi a pen! Man, that was awesome!

[@Fluuuv]

How did you get tickets?

[@candygurl]

You would NEVER think this woman is 50. Black don’t crack baby 😂❤

[@Jay1830_]

She'd be great to portray Condoleeza Rice in a biopic.

[@Anointed012]

She probably wouldn’t want to play a sambo.

[@Jay1830_]

@Anointed012 if it came down to that but it would be just for a movie and she's getting paid but yeah maybe she wouldn't

[@calikeisha365]

Agreed, I never noticed that but she does favor Condi especially with this haircut.

[@teeillacurtis5207]

It’s always black folks attacking black folks on these platforms smh….

[@KamaraMikelWorldWide]

YOU’RE RIGHT!!!

[@sadcatsam]

50!?!?!?! No way . Her skin is amazing 🤩

[@moniquewrites9046]

I like that she is wearing her own hair. We need to normalize this again on TV.

[@josuetorres2394]

ITS NOT ABOUT HER OWN HAIR OR A WIG THAT MAKES HER SHINE.....ITS ABOUT THE LIGHT THAT SHE GOT FROM INSIDE OUT THAT RADIATE ENERGY AS A STAR.

[@HH-gv8mx]

I prefer natural hair. Especially on black women. I would choose to be friends with a woman with her natural hair over a woman with a wig on, unless, of course she has cancer, or some other reason that she has to wear a wig.

[@AdamIslam-mc5nd]

Its normal already.... its just you women are enslaved by media and society and then regret and realise at a later age

[@candygurl]

Facts

[@tamekarobinson1747]

@@HH-gv8mx very weird you select friends based on how they chose to wear there hair and not character

[@shirleyjacobs1912]

She turned 50 last Oct. She's now sharing when she took her 50th birthday to Africa. How she reaped the beauty and healthy vibes in Tanzania

[@step2088]

I can sympathize with Gabriel Union’s peace after going to Africa because my first visit to Ghana was so carefree I spent two months there in Takoradi upon my last few weeks I had to get my mind and spirit right to visit Cape Coast Castle entering the slave dungeons and going through the doors of no return walking out to nothing but sea/ocean 😢so and on the other side of the door was the door of return for us the descendent of our ancestors ❤that was so emotional and mind blowing for me. Although I never visited that river but will make it my next journey thanks for sharing that because I wasn’t aware of it.

[@gilhoi]

Truly pathetic. Did she find that she was from the Western African clans that enslaved and sold their own people or is her heritage from the East?! #dumbcelebrity

[@workingthrumyissues]

I can tell the trip gave her what she needed. ❤❤❤❤

[@YSQ300]

I went to Africa in Feb and when they said Welcome home i was so happy and felt so good. I need to go back

[@geekylove3603]

Africa is a continent.

[@marsbeaz4149]

I visited a plantation years ago and was excited to go, had good music on, and was in a great mood. No soon as I left my vehicle, the smile and joy left my face and I fell to my knees and just cried, gut wrenching tears. I never even got to look at anything. The presence so strong that I couldn't deny and the emotions of fear, sadness, bewilderment, hysteria and more, came with it. Its no wonder Gabriel said her husband was screaming because I'm sure he felt it too. It is true that no one from that time is alive but there is no way that we feel things as deeply as we do unless we have a direct connectivity to the spirits of our ancestors. Whoopi is a gem because she tried to explain that this is new for Blacks that descended from slaves and she is right because its the same reason why adopted kids go looking for biological parents. #wheredidicomefrom

[@auroramerry5429]

Listening to her brought tears to my eyes.

[@kimberlymoyer1232]

Its called a Co joining, I felt it as well as soon as i stepped on the tarmac in Nigeria. I felt my ancestors embracing me and welcoming me home. I left believing that God has a plan and maybe its to return us home and Make Africa Great Again!

[@kingcobrarules8117]

My God Africa just sounds like the best place ever!

[@javiruiz8365]

Go ahead and save your money 💰

[@alex-qd6of]

Sarcasm, I presume?

[@Alexmofficial03]

⁠@@alex-qd6of racism I presume?

[@Prince_the_One]

​@@Alexmofficial03lol Africa has cannibalism, racism, slavery, child mutilation, and so much more, it's not a great perfect place

[@mycoshe]

Africa is a continent, not a place, not a country.

[@theluschmaster]

This is what I want to look like at 50 💙✨

[@csjary]

Gabrielle Union has been through a bit, including colorism, being sexually attacked at gunpoint one evening when she was working at Payless, and more. So, I’m thrilled that she’s thriving and seems to be in a good place.

[@seaman1446]

Wow - that was a powerful discussion - thanks Gabrielle! Anyone noticed how quiet Joy was as she listened? A nice discussion where the guest is able to speak and bring you in.

[@gilhoi]

Talking about how she made a show TO MAKE MONEY off the slave trade?!? And leaving out the FACT that the first people to enslave and sell Africans WERE AFRICANS... so dishonest and dirty. #pleaselearntruehistory

[@michaelcarey8491]

I love Africa. Returning to The Gambia in September and cannot wait to be back with the most wonderful people

[@Blissful-es1kk]

I'm Generation X and grew up watching Gabby. It is nice to see her at peace.

[@dakotac180]

She's so gorgeous. Ugh I'd love to go to Africa.

[@shawnuel]

She seems to reverse age and gets more beautiful every year.

[@Urmomiswithmern]

Feeling at peace and having energy is the best feeling in the world.

[@jeanlowe5908]

she is 50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! holy

[@IAMGLYN4REAL]

I have experience this journey to Africa. I got emotional all over again. Thanks for sharing

[@zinhlemthabela7007]

Her voice as she grows sounds very beautiful 😍, more settled

[@lydiareece6280]

I just came back from Ghana I took a trip to Elimina and Cape Coast Slave Castle 😢😢😢🇧🇧

[@antwanthompson556]

She's is BEAUTIFUL... She's the Blueprint to looking good and feeling good and being good... !!! This segment was Life...!!! 💯👍

[@talisha5863]

Love Gabriel and love that her stylist is showing that famous, rich black women can style their real hair💕….I can’t wait to see the documentary👏🏽🎉

[@km7943]

Wow this was an amazing interview

[@samuelasante1964]

Every African American who is able must visit Ghana 🇬🇭 or at least one African country. Respect Gabrielle and Dwayne on their visit to the motherland.

[@estherphiri764]

Woow this is beautiful, watching from Zambia 🇿🇲, Africa 😊.

[@jaseNdavid]

She said Oshun and i could only think of Oya, Goddess of rebirth

[@uchechiuwanaka]

Love it! Africa to the world! you should come to Nigeria too! The land is GREEN!...-from a dedicated 'The View Viewer' from West Africa

[@z2010able]

Lovely. I'm Scottish, and it's taken my whole long life to believe we all came from Africa.

[@alex-qd6of]

@@z2010able weren't you taught evolution when you were a kid?

[@z2010able]

@@alex-qd6of Not at my school in the UK

[@Lulu-wv1nt]

Africa imprints on you. You will always be seen to it once you visit❤❤. It's the cradle of human kind❤

[@npguru]

I love her so much. Her authenticity, her freedom to just be who she is. I'm sorry that her husband's first marriage ended, but this marriage was destiny.

[@jarhead7602]

& she cheated on him. She's a real saint. She's also a racist.

[@NoNameSubliminals]

Her “authenticity” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 She’s as authentic as Biden and Kamala are competent and virtuous people. Not to mention she manipulated D-Wade’s son into thinking he’s a “girl.” She’s awful. 😂😂😂

[@user-eh8go8bt6t]

@@jarhead7602I’ve seen countless comments from you all over the place saying the exact same thing. Get a lyfe

[@Justme0288]

@@jarhead7602 who cheated on who??? I need to know. She is racist though

[@daily9930]

Eating his bottom, going 50/50 and in constant stress those are her words not mine, him having a baby while with her, him love playing dress up etc... this marriage is destiny more like desperation? She being the man and he is resting in his femininity 😂😆

[@user-ld9om8zh7w]

Gabrielle, I respect what you did going back to the Motherland because most black women would have gone to Europe. Respect for marrying a Black man and still married to. Nuff respect from Jamaica

[@loufrank1574]

And for turning your son into something he can never be

[@user-sv7fd6es6s]

I love Gabrielle Union. When she made that trip to Africa and going to the Assin Manso river it touched me so deeply.

[@Fluuuv]

She looks goooood!

[@neilybugg]

So good! It's insane

[@theajayieffect]

This episode today was powerful 👏🏾 ❤

[@AfricanBan2]

It is a privilege to be able to travel to the motherland and disconnect from United States for a while .

[@swankhood]

After I saw her in Running with Scissors, I watch everything she does. We're also the same age. She deserves her own movies with the starring role. Happy she got the Netflix movie.

[@lashendawest7509]

Happy 50th birthday gabrielle union

[@npguru]

Thanks Whoopi, I'm trying not to cry.

[@pearlncube5582]

That's what I feel too when I'm back in my Mother Africa - Peace.

[@t.yvonneworley8124]

She's Beautiful!!!

[@lucyakomiah9306]

Thanks for narrating this fantastic story about my country Ghana 🇬🇭… we are urging all the blacks to to come visit…Africa is a beautiful 😍 place to be .

[@tanzcanmediatv4473]

Tanzania is the beautiful country in eath .when i touch the airport ground i felt relief

[@soniaogene5925]

Can't believe she is 50 😮

[@kennyhumble3699]

Gabby looks 35, she looks gorgeous 😍

[@CloroxBleachCompany]

Biological ancestry tests are revealing a lot to people whose ancestors were formerly enslaved-like whether their direct lineage originated in Western or Central Africa, where a majority of slave trade activity took place.

[@billoa1953]

SHE IS INDEED PRETTY. AFRICAN WOMEN INDEED ROCK! NO DOUBT ABOUT IT AND I LIKE HER PRIDE IN BEING AFRICAN. I LOVE HER!!

[@perpetuanashon1677]

I just love 💖 Gabrielle Union I don't care what people say about her, that's her personal life and none of my business and tha is my opinion, watching from Tanzania 🇹🇿

[@deborahblackshear3325]

Happy Birthday Gabriel.

[@erikacruz4609]

Gabrielle is stunning. Love how classy she is. I partied with her at a mayors ball in Atlanta years ago. She is so down to earth.

[@mede6195]

Wherever Europeans have set their feet on, the people have suffered.

[@Clareeihe2]

Tanzania for the win ...Come visit our beautiful and peaceful country guys

[@ziva9266]

She looks literally like an 18 year old

[@vanessasanders5647]

Thank you Sunny for mentioning Oshun,paying homage. Much appreciated. ASE

[@tvs9978]

paying homage to what? Oshun is not the god/dess associated with that river but i guess accuracy doesnt matter

[@npguru]

@@tvs9978 So why don't you say who is, instead of spewing hostility.

[@tvs9978]

@@npguru what crassness is this? Oshun is a god in Yoruba spirituality. This river is located in a different country and different ethnic (Akan) state, but you think that you can just insert different gods and spiritual systems as and when you please?

[@jtsctv5]

Jesus is Lord

[@takesomemolly1660]

From a Yoruba (Nigerian precisely) lady here, it's spelt Osun and not Oshun(Wikipedia spelling). In the Yoruba language you can't write 2consonants together (sh). Every consonant has to be separated by a vowel.

[@richelletaylor8060]

Gabrielle! First of all, Happy Belated Birthday! Second of all, I’m still looking for that song sanged in “Being Mary Jane” Season 3, episode 9- when you are reading to the child! They blocked this song. Every which way, but loose! I even texted the showrunner, and you know what he replied? Good luck. I don’t understand why ya’ll would block such a beautiful spiritual song?!!! You said Oshun?! Whence you come? Release, because you really did not IN THIS INTERVIEW! You can say u did, but you still have a ways to go! There is no perfect find.

[@marsbeaz4149]

😫😪😭 This segment was powerful. I have never watched any movies (Roors, Amistad, etc.) that show slavery, I just can't handle it.

[@ChamblissFam1102]

Enjoyed the video . Which the segment was much longer ❤

[@BriaBarrows]

I cannot believe she’s 50 😩

[@defjam2001]

I can't believe she gets away with child abuse too

[@Alexavian]

Beautiful 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@foster6404]

Re: The Perfect Find, Sunny says “where did you find that man?🥰🥰

[@tipasefar7403]

Happy birthday to her and congratulation

[@robibabe]

South Africa baby🇿🇦🌍❤️

[@nodatastored684]

❤ 🎉 HBD 🎉

[@theluschmaster]

Stella is getting her groove back .. again 😏

[@Sbannmarie]

Been to Ghana 🇬🇭 Didn’t know any of that.

[@apd7698]

are you white?

[@klaudiaarriera9989]

Sunny bringing up Oshun. Girl she’s been watching. Can’t imagine she’s too proud of the way you behave.

[@BD-rv6rm]

Africa is the source. For all humanity.

[@kavinejadore]

See now I’m sold I gotta go to Africa right now

[@terriarheghan3676]

Awesome. Hope it will be shown on another venue. We don’t all have BET+

[@skuter84]

They’ll probably show it on regular BET in a few months.

[@deidremuphy9735]

50 WHERE?!!!! 😍

[@oshinegyir867]

Goosebumps all over me

[@theperfectescape5785]

She’s so gorgeous doesn’t look a day over 30s Her skin is super flawless!!!

[@vachonew5904]

Empowerment ❤

[@user-ld9om8zh7w]

You make me proud as a Black man. Proud of you connecting with your roots. TOO LONG BLACK ACTRESSES FORGET THAT THEY ARE BLACK AND NOT EUROPEAN

[@mohammedsualisuseidu3701]

very beautiful experience

[@tangled55]

5:15 - 5:28 she is ABSOLUTELY correct.

[@dimiadarnay3586]

Awesome 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@user-yk5lv8iw8x]

You spelled 27 wrong!

[@Jeanette-iw8un]

Waw. First time seeing a view episode with silence n just letting the guest speak. N thanks 4 the respect shown when she spoke about her Africa trip, all the white hosts just shut up n listened

[@Mgmgmg-cl5zd]

Afrika must stay united salute 2 Gabrielle union

[@dimiadarnay3586]

Awesome 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@efuucdgbjiddvhi]

I love Whoopi !!!

[@SoulSiren01]

She looks beautiful either way

[@TheGirlAboutTown]

Go Whoopi always educating !

[@loufrank1574]

If she is an educator we are all in trouble

[@shawnamckinney4381]

my goal is to do africa for my 40th next year

[@williampetrovich1998]

They needed to end with this segment.

[@Chillhard]

Successful, intelligent black people discussing the beauties of Africa and the history of slavery can be disturbing for some snowflakes.

[@williampetrovich1998]

@@Chillhard Snowflake's shouldn't subscribe to this channel.

[@lc-il6wr]

I agree. They don't know what they're talking about!

[@lc-il6wr]

@@Chillhard they don't know africa. They're American! They don't know what they're talking about ..HOLLYWEIRD! None of them are changing anything!

[@kevincampbell6586]

50? Definition of black don't crack 😅😂❤

[@alex-qd6of]

Not when it can afford plastic surgery, anyway...😉

[@kevincampbell6586]

@@alex-qd6of your probably right 👀

[@lc-il6wr]

What is important is health!

[@lmiller6675]

Joy just had to touch that beautiful brown skin

[@Happey67]

Tell the stories by getting your hands on some books at the libraries. Thankfully, America has libraries at every corner in a community.

[@kimcydlingh1944]

Nobody tells our true story. They tell us the story that they want us to believe.