This is certainly some feud for thought.
Rosie O’Donnell, 61, not too long ago revealed her relationship standing with fellow retired discuss present host Ellen DeGeneres, 65 — and it’s sophisticated.
“She texted me a couple of weeks in the past checking in, seeing how I’m doing, and I requested her how she’s surviving not being on TV,” O’Donnell informed The Hollywood Reporter in an interview revealed Thursday.
“It’s an enormous transition. But we’ve had our weirdness in our relationship. I don’t know if it’s jealousy, competitors or the truth that she mentioned a imply factor about me as soon as that actually harm my emotions.”
She defined to the outlet that DeGeneres mentioned the “imply factor” throughout an look on “Larry King Live.”
The Post reached out to reps for DeGeneres for remark.
O’Donnell says King requested DeGeneres, “Whatever occurred to Rosie O’Donnell’s present? She went down the tubes as quickly as she got here out.”
DeGeneres replied that she “didn’t know” O’Donnell, they usually “weren’t pals,” in keeping with O’Donnell’s account.
O’Donnell informed THR she didn’t really feel the identical means — and she or he claims DeGeneres not too long ago texted her concerning the scenario.
“She wrote, ‘I’m actually sorry and I don’t do not forget that,’” O’Donnell alleged. “I assume she noticed me discuss it on Andy Cohen’s present. I remembered it so nicely, I had T-shirts printed, and I gave them to my employees that mentioned, ‘I don’t know Rosie. We’re not pals.’”
She continued, “I’ve an image of her holding [my then-infant son] Parker. I do know her mom. I might establish her brother with out her within the room. I knew her for thus a few years. It simply felt like I don’t belief this particular person to be in my world.”
She had talked about the story whereas showing on Andy Cohen’s late-night present, “Watch What Happens Live,” in September.
O’Donnell mentioned when she and DeGeneres have been arising within the comedy world, they’d a great, supportive relationship.
The former “View” co-host even recalled DeGeneres’ 1996 look on her discuss present, once they made jokes about being “Lebanese” as a result of they each favored DJ Casey Kasem.
“The Rosie O’Donnell Show” aired from 1996 to 2002, and “The Rosie Show” from 2011 to 2012.
DeGeneres isn’t the one celeb who O’Donnell has fallen out with.
She not too long ago spoke about her notorious 2007 tussle with conservative commentator Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
The two former co-hosts of “The View” obtained right into a 10-minute shouting match about their differing views on the Iraq struggle.
It rapidly turned ugly and private.
“I do know this — it’s not the very best use of my expertise to get in a present the place I’ve to argue and defend fundamental ideas of humanity and kindness,” O’Donnell mentioned about “The View” throughout an April look on Brooke Shields’ podcast, “Now What? With Brooke Shields.”
“It was not one thing I’d ever do once more,” she continued.
O’Donnell co-hosted “The View” from 2006–2007 and 2014–2015.
For her half, DeGeneres ended her discuss present final yr after 19 seasons.
