Throughout a current appearance on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, ” Cohen talked about how much he cherished the “Lebanese” second O’Donnell had along with DeGeneres on the former’s talk show.
Cohen had been referencing DeGeneres’ 1996 look on O’Donnell’s daytime talk show in which the two playfully danced close to speculation about DeGeneres being gay. The girl formally came out weeks later.
Cohen then asked O’Donnell why the girl had never made an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that ended its run in May after 19 months.
“After my display went off the atmosphere, and her’s has been coming on the air, Larry King had been on with Ellen and he said, ‘Whatever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her display went down the pipes. She came out being a lesbian and vanished, ‘” O’Donnell described. “And Ellen said, and I’m quoting, ‘I don’t know Rosie. We’re not friends. ‘”
O’Donnell mentioned she watching along with her then spouse Kelli Carpenter, whom she asked, “Did I just hear that will or was that, like, a hallucination auditory voice? ”
“I’m like, no, ” O’Donnell said. “And absolutely what happened. It hurt my feelings just like a baby and I never really got over it. inch
CNN has reached out to some representative for DeGeneres for comment.