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Rosie O’Donnell It reminded me of her devastation about how her friendship with Ellen DeGeneres fell apart over 20 years ago.
Recently appeared on the Mamamia podcast.”No filter“O’Donnell, 63, described her reaction to Comment DeGeneres, 67, who appeared on 2004’s “Larry King Live,” which ended the friendship between the two comedians and the former talk show host.
The “A League of Selows” star recalled seeing an episode with his then-wife, Kelly Carpenter, when the king asked DeGeneres about the end of “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” which ran from 1996 to 2002.
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Rosie O’Donnell recalled how she felt devastated after her friendship with Ellen DeGeneres ended. (Getty Images)
“He asked her, ‘What happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her show went down the tube,” O’Donnell said. It imitated the voice of the king who passed away in 2021. Eren said, “I don’t know Rosie. We’re not friends.” ”
“It was one of the most painful things that happened to me in show business in my life,” O’Donnell said of DeGeneres’ reaction.
“I couldn’t believe it,” she continued. “I have a picture of her holding my newborn baby. I’ve known her for 30 years.”
O’Donnell said the incident wasI’m very upset“She had a custom t-shirt decorated with a quote from DeGeneres.
“It was extremely painful, and, as you know, we never really got through it,” she said.
O’Donnell said she was “betrayed” when DeGeneres denied knowing her during her appearance on 2004’s “Larry King Live.” (Mathew Imaging/FilmMagic)
O’Donnell explained that she was “betrayed” because she supported Degeneres Former “Eren” star He appeared as a gay in a 1997 episode of her sitcom.
She recalled having invited DeGeneres to appear in 1996’s The Rosie O’Donnell Show. During the episode, DeGeneres joked that her character “become a Lebanese” play with the word “lesbian.”
In the exchange, O’Donnell, who was not openly gay at the time, joked that she might be “Lebanese.”
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O’Donnell, who revealed she was a lesbian in 2002, said she felt the exchange was “very threatening” because she was worried that her own sexuality would be put into question.
“I got anyone who was gay at home. I don’t leave her alone. I couldn’t do that.
“The news media wasn’t like that, and no one asked back then, but I remember that it felt very threatening,” she continued. “I was in this very famous, very successful show. I was getting everything Emmy Awardsand it felt “Oh, this could really threaten me”, but even so, my internal clock didn’t allow me to distance myself from her. I had to stand by her and hold her hand. And that’s what I chose to do. ”
Degeneres revealed that she is a lesbian in an episode of the 1997 sitcom Ellen. (Brooks Craft)
O’Donnell said she left the “Rosie O’Donnell Show” to focus on her family despite being “provided with lots of money to stay,” she explained that she was disappointed when the former “Ellen DeGeneres Show” denied knowing her.
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“She wanted to suddenly suddenly, where I was starting a show, it was a success and get the money and admiration that comes with it,” O’Donnell said. “Instead of standing next to me and deciding to hold my hand, that’s what I did to her, she did the opposite, and I couldn’t believe it.”
O’Donnell, whom I spoke with before She falls At DeGeneres, she said she had never received an apology. However, she claimed that DeGeneres had contacted her over the years.
“Many times you know she told me or wrote me and said, ‘Why are you still talking about this?’ You, after all these years, I didn’t know very well how to answer it.
She continued, “I would have apologized. I would have said that. I think I did that in her mind.
O’Donnell insisted that she had never received an apology from DeGeneres. (Stefannie Keenan)
“I don’t rehash it for pleasure,” O’Donnell said. “I rehash because our careers have been in parallel interwoven paths. And I often get to be gay talk show hosts and we are the same age.
Fox News Digital has contacted a DeGeneres representative for comment.
DeGeneres has not publicly addressed his friendship with O’Donnell. However, she expressed her support for O’Donnell in a feud with the former president. Donald Trump.
After O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Trump’s election, the former president shared a true social post in July 2025, where he threatened to revoke her citizenship. DeGeneres, who moved to the UK with his wife Portia de Rossi last year, posted a screenshot of Trump’s posts on social media, wrote “Good for You” and tagged O’Donnell.
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