Whoopi Goldberg’s (right) advice stuck with Keke Palmer (left) (Picture: Getty)

Keke Palmer has revealed that it was Whoopi Goldberg that helped her discover what works for her in the bedroom after giving her sage advice.

The actress, 29, admitted that she had viewed sex as a ‘service’ for her partner’s pleasure rather than her own until Whoopi, 57, encouraged her to experiment with self-pleasure to discover what she would want from a partner.

She explained on her Baby, This Is Keke Palmer podcast: ‘My identity with sex – it was always based upon, “Oh, I just gotta do this service.” And my enjoyment, any enjoyment that I had at that era, in that point, in that time, came from, “I’m glad they’re happy.”

‘Then it became… then that was like, depressing and not enough because well I realised, like, “Well, wait a damn minute… this isn’t,” you know what I’m saying?

‘So, it’s been a, it was a journey of trying to figure out what works for me.

‘And I remember, I’ll never forget, I was on The View one time, and they were having a conversation about sex, a really great conversation, and Whoopi Goldberg said, “please just – start with pleasing yourself.” And I was like, “That rings true.”’

Keke opened up on her journey with intimacy on her podcast (Picture: TOMMASO BODDI/AFP via Getty Images)

The Nope star added that the advice made her realise that she prefers a more emotional connection during sex, rather than simulating the over-exaggerated bedroom antics seen in porn.

Keke explained: ‘There was one time in my life where I thought porn simulation sex – because that’s what it sounds like to me, porn: simulated-esque sex – was something that could be interesting or fun.

‘But I never actually had a happy ending from it, if I’m being, you know, lightly frank. I’ve only ever had an actual happy ending from a more demure, a calmer, a more emotional approach.’

Whoopi’s comments on The View made Keke realise pleasure should not be one-sided (Picture: Jenny Anderson/ABC via Getty Images)

Keke had previously refused to define her own sexuality after releasing her music video for I Don’t Belong To You, in which she cosies up to a woman.

Speaking in 2016, she said: ‘The video was to represent the young woman today – it’s not the traditional woman anymore – and not the specifics of “Am I gay? Am I straight? Am I bi?”

‘I’m making the rules for myself, and I don’t have to be stuck down to one label. I don’t feel the need to define nothin’ to nobody, because I’m always changing.

‘Why say that I’m this or that when I might not be tomorrow? I’m gonna follow my own feelings and my own heart.’

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