Personal Life
Goldberg has been married three times — in 1973 to Alvin Martin (divorced in 1979, one daughter), in 1986 to cinematographer David Claessen (divorced in 1988), and in 1994 to the actor Lyle Trachtenberg (divorced in 1995). She has also been romantically linked with actors Frank Langella and Ted Danson.
In 1973, when Goldberg was eighteen, she and Alvin Martin had one daughter, Alexandrea (now an actress and producer who has used the stage names Alex Martin and Alex Dean). Goldberg became a grandmother at the age of thirty-four when her then sixteen year-old daughter gave birth to her daughter, Amarah Skye. And through Alvin, Goldberg has another two grandchildren who are six and nine years younger than Amarah.
On August 29, 2010, Goldberg's mother Emma Johnson died after suffering a stroke. Goldberg left London at the time, where she had been performing in Sister Act the Musical, but returned to perform on October 22, 2010.
She has admitted publicly to having been a "high functioning" drug addict years ago, at one point being too terrified to even leave her bed to go use the toilet. Goldberg suffers from dyslexia.
Goldberg currently lives in the gated community of Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey, near Glenmont, the home of inventor Thomas Edison. Her house was built in 1920 and has 23 rooms.
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