After being sedated for an overseas flight, Whoopi Goldberg was groggy yet she laughed her way through a live taping of The VIew.

Goldberg confessed that the medication still had the effects on her when she hosted yesterday's edition of the show.

"I'm jetlagged - I just came back from [an AIDS benefit event in] Vienna," she said.

"I may have partied too much but you know I have to fly drugged.

"So I'm still slightly drugged and I'm sure somewhere in me I'm still partying."

The comedian and actress was quite lethargic during the show and had difficulties in reading the teleprompter as her co-hosts and studio audience laughed.

"You know what's funny right now? The fact that I'm sitting up straight," she joked.

Goldberg has been battling a fear of flying for years. As much as possible, she would travel across the US in her own bus to go coast to coast.