Rosie O’Donnell admits she has a “bizarre” relationship with Ellen DeGeneres and blames it on issues her fellow former speak present host has stated in public.
O’Donnell advised The Hollywood Reporter that she and DeGeneres had been good associates within the days earlier than they each turned well-known.
“We supported one another,” O’Donnell defined. She stated that when DeGeneres appeared on O’Donnell’s speak present in 1997, previous to her character on the ABC sitcom, “Ellen,” popping out as homosexual, she tried to assist DeGeneres take care of the looming controversy.
“I stated, ‘Let me not have you ever standing there by your self. Let’s get a joke in there,’” O’Donnell recalled. “And we sat down and got here up with that, ‘Oh my God, I really like Casey Kasem. Possibly I’m Lebanese.’ It turned a giant factor.”
However after DeGeneres got here out and have become extra in style, O’Donnell stated everybody was asking her opinion.
“It turned a wierd, ‘There can’t be two lesbians on this city’ form of a factor,” O’Donnell stated. “Then we every had success and went separate methods.”
Though O’Donnell admits that the 2 comedians have “had our weirdness in our relationship,” she stated she doesn’t know “if it’s jealousy, competitors or the truth that she stated a imply factor about me as soon as that actually harm my emotions.”
O’Donnell was referring to an interview DeGeneres did with Larry King, the place she denied realizing O’Donnell in any respect.
O’Donnell stated after King requested DeGeneres, “No matter occurred to Rosie O’Donnell’s present? She went down the tubes as quickly as she got here out.”
DeGeneres responded, “I don’t know, Rosie. We’re not associates.”
As you in all probability guessed, O’Donnell wasn’t pleased and advised The Hollywood Reporter, “I used to be watching TV in mattress with my spouse going, ‘Did she simply say that?’”
O’Donnell stated it “would by no means happen to me to say, ‘I don’t know her’ about someone whose infants I held once they had been born. It wouldn’t be in my lexicon of decisions to ever say.”
The comic was additionally shocked that DeGeneres didn’t assist her “when it was a downward media time for me.”
Regardless of their variations, O’Donnell stated DeGeneres not too long ago texted her to see how she was doing and, within the course of, kind of apologized.
“She wrote, ‘I’m actually sorry, and I don’t keep in mind that,’” O’Donnell stated. “I suppose she noticed me speak about it on Andy Cohen’s present.”
O’Donnell stated she remembered the incident so properly that she had T-shirts printed for her employees that stated, “I don’t know Rosie. We’re not associates.”
She added: “I’ve an image of her holding [my then-infant son] Parker. I do know her mom. I may 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.”
By comparability, O’Donnell stated her three-decade relationship with Madonna is legit.
“We fashioned a sister factor in an actual means the place we keep in one another’s lives and contact base,” O’Donnell stated. “She sends presents to my youngsters on their birthdays, and my youngsters present all their associates: ‘It is a reward card from Madonna!’”