Whoopi Goldberg stoked more controversy on Monday evening when she tried to apologize for saying the 'Holocaust isn't about race' by asserting race is only about skin color and the Nazis 'had to do the work' to find out who was Jewish.

During an interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert after her comments on The View about the Holocaust caused international outcry, Goldberg, 66, said she understood why she had angered people.

But she didn't stop there, and instead tried to explain why she thought the killing of six million Jews by the Nazis was not about race because Jews are white. 

'When you talk about being a racist, you can't call this racism,' she said.

'This was evil. This wasn't based on skin. You couldn't tell who was Jewish. You had to delve deeply and figure it out. My point is: they had to do the work.

'If the Klan is coming down the street and I'm standing with a Jewish friend, I'm going to run, but if my friend decides not to run, they'll get passed by most times because you can't tell who is Jewish.
You don't know.'

Her appearance on Colbert, where she also plugged her return to the Star Trek franchise, came hours after she apologized for her comments, which sparked backlash worldwide, earlier that day. 

'The Holocaust was about the Nazi's systematic annihilation of the Jewish people -- who they deemed to be an inferior race.

I stand corrected,' she tweeted.

'The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I'm sorry for the hurt I have caused.'  

Whoopi Goldberg on Monday night appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and attempted to explain her controversial remarks about the Holocaust

Goldberg admitted to Colbert that she 'did a lot of harm to myself' with her Holocaust remarks