Rosie O’Donnell weighs in on Ellen DeGeneres controversy

Keep in mind when Rosie O’Donnell was referred to as the “Queen of Good”?

On the time, the Sleepless in Seattle alum was starring in her personal daytime discuss present, The Rosie O’Donnell Present, identified for its giveaways to common folks and high-profile visitors like Tom Cruise. It was, mainly, The Ellen DeGeneres Present earlier than it existed. Flash-forward a number of years and O’Donnell, who ended her present in 2002, had a a lot completely different popularity, one for talking out, after becoming a member of The View.

On a brand new episode of SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Present, O’Donnell was requested if being saddled with that label early on had affected her negatively. In spite of everything, DeGeneres has stated that in her personal case, being seen as somebody who’s form to everybody had come again to “chunk her within the ass” after she was accused of presiding over a poisonous work setting stuffed with, in line with former staff, worry, racial insensitivity and sexual misconduct. 

For O’Donnell, the reply was sure.

“Not in the best way that Ellen’s speaking about, I believe, however, you recognize, I stated the day it got here out, take a look at this the ‘Queen of Good’ and a few years, it should be the queen of lice, the queen of fried rice, you recognize, the queen of, we do not like her anymore,” she stated. “I’ve an understanding of the cycle of present enterprise and sort of what occurs in folks’s careers and when sufficient is sufficient. And oftentimes, folks do not know that, you recognize, I believe I’ve a, a very good steadiness of each in my lifetime of the significance of, you recognize, of each. And it is exhausting to take care of.”

O’Donnell feels for somebody in that place. 

“It is exhausting to do, particularly whenever you’re doing … a present like that, however, you recognize, I do not suppose it was the ‘be form’ factor that, that bought her,” she stated. “I believe that is … an oversimplification, however it was quite a lot of issues and it was sophisticated and I am glad that she’s, you recognize, going to be completed and she will get a while to herself to only, I imply, it is an enormous sort of unusual factor to be on a present like that and have all that spotlight on you. And she or he had it for, like, 19 years. So, you recognize, it is a powerful factor.”

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DeGeneres has hosted her weekday present since 2003, however she introduced in Could that she’ll finish it in 2022. She apologized and let go of three producers after the allegations in opposition to her, however she stated that they hadn’t affected her resolution. She’s merely prepared “to take a break from speaking.”

O’Donnell stated in August 2020 that she sympathized with DeGeneres.

“I’ve compassion, despite the fact that, you recognize, I hear the tales and I perceive,” O’Donnell stated. “I believe she has some social awkwardness.”

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