Throughout a current look on “Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen,” Cohen talked about how a lot he cherished the “Lebanese” second O’Donnell had with DeGeneres on the previous’s discuss present.
Cohen was referencing DeGeneres’ 1996 look on O’Donnell’s daytime discuss present by which the 2 playfully danced round hypothesis about DeGeneres being homosexual. She formally got here out months later.
Cohen then requested O’Donnell why she had by no means appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Present” that ended its run in Could after 19 seasons.
“After my present went off the air, and her’s 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,’” O’Donnell defined. “And Ellen stated, and I am quoting, ‘I do not know Rosie. We’re not pals.’”
O’Donnell stated she watching along with her then spouse Kelli Carpenter, whom she requested, “Did I simply hear that or was that, like, a hallucination auditory voice?”
“I am like, no,” O’Donnell stated. “And that is what occurred. It damage my emotions like a child and I by no means actually bought over it.”
CNN has reached out to a consultant for DeGeneres for remark.