Rosie O'Donnell is opening up concerning the finish of her friendship with fellow discuss present host, Ellen DeGeneres.
“As a substitute of deciding to face subsequent to me and maintain my hand, which is what I did to her, she did the other,” O'Donnell stated in the course of the Sunday, September 7, episode of Mamamia's “No Filter” podcast. “That was, like, probably the most painful issues that ever occurred to me, in present enterprise, in my life.”
O'Donnell and DeGeneres' falling out reportedly occurred after the Discovering Nemo star made a remark about her dynamic with O'Donnell throughout a 2004 look on Larry King Dwell.
“I don't actually know Rosie that properly. I imply, I've spoken to her, however we're probably not mates,” she advised the host on the time.
O'Donnell defined on Sunday that she “couldn't imagine” how DeGeneres publicly downplayed their friendship.
“I've images of her holding my new child infants,” she shared. “I knew her for 30 years.”
Since that comment, O'Donnell and DeGeneres have had a fractured bond, which the League of Their Personal actress has candidly mentioned over time.
“I feel in her thoughts, she thinks I preserve rehashing it for pleasure,” O'Donnell quipped. “I don't rehash it for pleasure. I rehash it as a result of our careers have taken kind of parallel, interwoven paths.”
O'Donnell beforehand mentioned her falling out with DeGeneres throughout a 2022 look on Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen. DeGeneres heard about O'Donnell's interview and, in line with the comic, reached out to apologize.
“She texted me just a few weeks in the past checking in, seeing how I'm doing, and I requested her how she's surviving not being on TV. It's a giant transition,” O'Donnell stated to the Hollywood Reporter on the time.
Years later, each O'Donnell and DeGeneres have moved out of america following the 2024 presidential election, selecting to relocate to Europe. O'Donnell lives in Eire, whereas DeGeneres and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, reside within the English countryside.
Earlier this yr, O'Donnell solely opened as much as Us Weekly about her new life within the Emerald Isle and if she had been in contact with DeGeneres not too long ago.
“We're probably not in one another's worlds,” she advised Us in April. “And it's been sort of awkward however what? I want her one of the best. I want that she has peace and love in her life and that she is OK.”
The previous discuss present host added that she has no “malice” in the direction of DeGeneres.
“I don't need to struggle in opposition to one other homosexual lady. It's not like we're tenaciously opposed to one another,” she defined. “We're simply very completely different individuals. We now have had some stuff up to now that we by no means resolved. And never in any approach as, as companions or lovers or something like that, simply as mates and comedians, however I want her one of the best. I significantly do.”
