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A League of Their Own EXCLUSIVE: Rosie O'Donnell's Impactful Cameo
Rosie O'Donnell is clearing the aerial astir her strained narration with Ellen DeGeneres.
During the Sept. 15 occurrence of Watch What Happens Live, the American Gigolo actress—who hosted The Rosie O'Donnell Show from 1996 to 2002 and aboriginal fronted The Rosie Show earlier it got canceled successful 2012 aft 1 play owed to debased ratings—discussed wherefore she ne'er appeared connected the Ellen DeGeneres Show and wherefore she and Ellen are not adjacent friends today.
"After my amusement went disconnected the air, and hers was coming connected the air, Larry King was connected with Ellen and helium said, 'Whatever happened to Rosie O'Donnell? Her amusement went down the tubes. She came retired arsenic a lesbian and disappeared,'" Rosie shared. "And Ellen said, and I'm quoting, 'I don't cognize Rosie. We're not friends.'"
Rosie—who was joined to ex-wife Kelli Carpenter at the time—said she was confused wherefore Ellen would accidental that she did not cognize her due to the fact that she appeared arsenic a impermanent connected the Rosie O'Donnell Show in the ‘90s.
"I was successful furniture with Kelli, and I went, 'Did I conscionable perceive that oregon was that, like, a hallucination auditory voice?'" she told big Andy Cohen. "I'm like, no, and that's what happened, and it wounded my feelings similar a baby, and I ne'er truly got implicit it."
E! News has reached retired to Ellen's rep for remark but has not heard back.
Rosie did enactment that she was asked to beryllium a impermanent connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show toward the extremity of its tally to beforehand her Showtime drama series SMILF. However, erstwhile the former View host asked if she could bring a guest to marque it "a small little awkward," they rejected her request, and she yet declined the invite.
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Despite their estranged relationship, Rosie wishes thing but the champion for the Finding Dory star.
"I privation her each bully things successful her beingness and that she should beryllium well," she continued. "So, determination you go. But I ne'er did it. I ne'er did it."
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