Rosie O’Donnell Talks About Why She Has Never Appeared On Ellen DeGeneres’ Show

Ellen DeGeneres has probably the most iconic discuss exhibits of all time and it has had all kinds of visitors on however some the way it has by no means seen the face of 1 Rosie O’Donnell, who really has had a remarkably related profession path to Ellen; virtually eerily related.

Each of those ladies started their careers among the many comedy circuit, earlier than launching into the appearing route and finally winding up as discuss present hosts and turning into the family names within the space. Ellen’s discuss present really got here on the air solely a short time after Rosie’s went off. Each ladies are LGBTQ icons and have used their fame and gravitas to talk out popularly in assist of the neighborhood.

Now, after a few years, Rosie appeared on “Watch What Occurs Reside” and eventually dished the main points concerning why she by no means got here to Ellen’s present.

Rosie revealed that her avoidance needed to do with a comment that Ellen made whereas talking to Larry King, which harm considerably and she or he was by no means capable of recover from it. She defined it within the following phrases:

“We had a little bit little bit of a bizarre factor. 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 went on, “And Ellen stated, and I’m quoting, ‘I don’t know Rosie. We’re not buddies.’ I used to be in mattress with [my ex-wife] Kelli [Carpenter] and I went, ‘Did I simply hear that, or was {that a} hallucination?’ No, that’s what occurred. It harm my emotions like a child, and I by no means actually bought over it.”

Rosie did reveal that the producers of Ellen’s present finally referred to as her on the present however she needed to take somebody together with her and after they did not agree she declined.

She stated, “I needed to convey somebody with me as a result of I assumed it is perhaps rather less awkward, they usually didn’t need to do this.”

She did add that she holds no in poor health will towards Ellen, saying, “I want her all good issues in her life and that she needs to be properly. So, there you go.”