Rosie O'Donnell is opening up concerning the finish of her friendship with Ellen DeGeneres over 20 years in the past.

O'Donnell appeared on the No Filter podcast and advised host Kate Langbroek about her ongoing points with DeGeneres. Particularly, she referenced the Ellen star's 2004 interview on Larry King Stay, throughout which the previous sitcom actress mentioned she was "probably not associates" with O'Donnell.

"That was, like, some of the painful issues that ever occurred to me in present enterprise, in my life," the previous cohost of The View mentioned.

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O'Donnell continued, "I couldn't consider it. I’ve pictures of her holding my new child infants. I knew her for 30 years."

The previous Rosie O'Donnell Present host — who got here out as homosexual in 2002 — mentioned that she "felt betrayed" as a result of she had supported DeGeneres when she appeared on her discuss present in 1996, a few yr earlier than she and her character on Ellen got here out.

"She got here on my present, and I felt strongly that I didn't need to depart her on the market alone," O'Donnell recalled. "That I couldn’t, as a homosexual individual, act as if I used to be not the identical as her. So, we talked earlier than within the dressing room and he or she mentioned she was going to say that her character was going to turn into Lebanese. After which I mentioned, 'Okay, properly, I'm going to speak about that with you. Let me in.' And she or he mentioned, 'Okay.' So, I mentioned, 'Oh my god, I like Casey Kasem. Perhaps I'm Lebanese.'"

O'Donnell added: "And everybody who was homosexual at house obtained it … As a result of I couldn't depart her on the market alone. I couldn't do it. So we had this, you already know, actually kind of decoded, coded interplay that anybody who was homosexual knew, however, you already know, the general public didn't actually decide up on it."

The A League of Their Personal star additionally mentioned how she was by no means requested to be on DeGeneres' discuss present, which was complicated to her as a result of they’d been associates — to not point out that crew members from the Rosie O'Donnell Present had additionally later labored on DeGeneres' daytime program.

"She was rapidly within the place I used to be in the place she was beginning a present and needed it to achieve success and get the cash and the accolades that got here with it," O'Donnell mentioned. "And as an alternative of deciding to face subsequent to me and maintain my hand, which is what I did to her, she did the alternative."

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No Filter host Langbroek identified that the crew had a markedly totally different expertise on DeGeneres' present in comparison with O'Donnell's. This, Langbroek famous, led to the eventual demise of The Ellen DeGeneres Present.

"With my employees right here and in my life and in my home, I create a household and I don't suppose that she's just like me in that means," O'Donnell mentioned.

O'Donnell later shared that DeGeneres by no means defined why she claimed to not be her good friend. Nonetheless, she mentioned DeGeneres has written to her asking why she nonetheless talks about their falling-out.

"I believe in her thoughts she thinks I maintain rehashing it for pleasure," O'Donnell mentioned. "I don't rehash it for pleasure. I rehash it as a result of our careers have taken kind of parallel interwoven paths. We're homosexual discuss present hosts and we're across the identical age, so individuals would all the time ask me about it and I’ve a tough time not telling the reality."

Take heed to the total episode of No Filter with Rosie O'Donnell beneath.

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