Take it from Rosie O’Donnell, who had her own popular talk show during the day from 1996 to 2002, a job like that that shows a person’s true colors. As she puts it, “You can not falsify your essence.”
‘That’s why I feel sorry for Ellen [DeGeneres], right? “O’Donnell said on Wednesday his episode of The Busy Philipps does her best podcast. “I have regrets, though, you know, I hear the stories and I understand it. I think she has some social discomfort.”
O’Donnell referred to allegations that employees of DeGenres’ show, The Ellen DeGenres Show, made in July that her show is a “toxic work environment.” Following an internal investigation, three top producers were released earlier this month.
O’Donnell said she is sometimes asked why she did not Ellen, but she has a good reason, really.
“You know how Ellen surprises everyone?” Asked O’Donnell. “I never did that show because I’m afraid she’s scaring me and will give me a heart attack.”
Most of O’Donnell’s podcast focused on her own working day speaker, who was a lot Ellen is today: packed with famous guests and many gifts for non-celebrities. She was constantly asked to promote things on TV, but she said she would only do it if she really liked the product – as was the case with Tickle Me Elmo – or if the company behind the product was ready for a good cause. to help.
‘It really felt like it Robin Hood“I have to tell you,” O’Donnell said. “If they were to say take this game away, and I would say, ‘Can you send 2,000 toys to this hospital?’ And they would. ”
O’Donnell pointed to one specific moment that told her she had to leave. She had her first baby, son Parker, and she went on to make the 1996 film Harriet the Spy.
‘I had to get a nanny because I had no nanny so far and he was, you know, eight, nine months old. That I got mine [housekeeper], Maria, to come with me to the movie set to help take care of him, and when I got home, like the second day of 12 hours, he would not come to me. He stayed with Maria … And I thought, I need a job where he can grow up with his cousins and his family around him, where I’ll be there every day to bring him to school. “
She recalled that she had just heard around that time that Kathie Lee Gifford was planning to leave her interview party with Regis Philbin during the day. O’Donnell called her agent and said she wanted the job so she could work shorter days and stay in one place. While the scheme failed – Gifford remained in the job until 2000 – the network wanted to do something with O’Donnell. By then, she already had a major role in box office victories, inclusive A league of its own en Sleepless in Seattle.
“I started this show because I had a son, and I left this show because I had four kids under the age of 6,” she said.
O’Donnell noted that hosting was a “very trippy experience.”
Caissie St. Onge, one of Philipps’ co-hosts and a former contributor to O’Donnell’s show, supported that. She said that O’Donnell once mentioned in the show that she enjoyed Krispy Kreme donuts, and was then sent not a box of them, but a whole machine she made.
“It wasn’t like anything close to real life,” O’Donnell said. “You know, you get mass adultery from the crowd every day like a shot of heroin in your arm. You get people clapping at your whole existence, and then you tell them how you changed their lives, and it is a lot to take in. And when I left, I knew this was all I could take. “
Eventually, painting helped O’Donnell return to reality.
‘You know, I make really big paintings, and my brother said we’ve got them all in storage, and nobody really wants them. [laughs]. ”
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