Talking to Andy Cohen on Watch What Occurs Dwell, she attributed it to a remark she stated Ellen made about her some years in the past.
“We had somewhat little bit of a bizarre factor,” Rosie stated of their relationship. “After my present went off the air, and hers was approaching the air, Larry King was on with Ellen and he stated, ‘No matter occurred to Rosie O’Donnell? Her present went down the tubes. She got here out as a lesbian and disappeared.'”
She stated that Ellen pulled a Mariah Carey on her, telling Larry, “‘I do not know Rosie. We’re not associates.'”
That was a shock as a result of she and Ellen had, in reality, met earlier than. Ellen had even been on The Rosie O’Donnell Present, the place she made a memorable joke about being “Lebanese” as code for “lesbian” earlier than she got here out.
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Rosie recalled listening to Ellen’s remarks and expressing her shock to her then-wife Kelli Carpenter. “I used to be in mattress with Kelli, and I went, ‘Did I simply hear that or was that, like, a hallucination auditory voice?'” she stated. “I am like, no, and that is what occurred, and it damage my emotions like a child, and I by no means actually obtained over it.”
Although she was later invited to look on The Ellen DeGeneres Present, it in the end did not work out. Rosie stated she tried to carry somebody along with her in an try to make it “rather less awkward,” however the supply was refused.
