The former talk show host stopped by Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on Thursday, Sept. 15, where they chatted about her “weird” relationship—or lack thereof—with DeGeneres after Cohen asked why she’d never been a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show throughout its 20-year tenure. As it turns out, DeGeneres once hurt O’Donnell’s feelings, and it’s something she was just never able to move past. O’Donnell shared that after her show went off the air, and as DeGeneres’s was coming on, Larry King asked DeGeneres, “Whatever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her show went down the tubes. She came out as a lesbian and disappeared.” In response, O’Donnell says DeGeneres said, “I don’t know Rosie. We’re not friends.” But DeGeneres was a guest on The Rosie O’Donnell Show in 1996, where she played coy about her sexuality months before coming out on her sitcom, Ellen, so it was hurtful to O’Donnell to hear DeGeneres say that she didn’t know her. “I was in bed with Kelli [her wife at the time] and I went, ‘Did I just hear that or was that, like, a hallucination…?’ I’m like, no, and that’s what happened, and it hurt my feelings like a baby and I never really got over it,” she said. She also shared that she was eventually asked onto DeGeneres’ show near the end of its run to promote SMILF, her Showtime comedy, but when she was denied her request to bring a guest of her own along to make the experience “a little less awkward,” she declined. Even so, she says she wishes DeGeneres nothing but the best. “I wish her all good things in her life and that she should be well.” Some celebrity friendships were just never meant to be. More News:
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