Colleague talk show host Rosie O’Donnell has learned not to post judgment directly.
The TV personality, who had her own overtime show from 1996 to 2002, admitted that she felt “sorry” for Ellen DeGeneres and the toxic workplace accusations she faced in her Emmy-winning show.
“You can not falsify your essence,” O’Donnell told Busy Phillips on her podcast “Busy Philipps does her best.”
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‘That’s why I feel sorry for Ellen [DeGeneres], right? “she added.” I have regrets, though, you know, I hear the stories and I understand it. I think she has some social discomfort. ”
The 58-year-old entertainer also admitted that she did not appear as a guest on ‘The Ellen Show’.
“You know how Ellen surprises everyone?” she said, “I never did that show because I’m afraid she’s going to scare me and give me a heart attack.”
O’Donnell revealed that she wanted her own show or would be a co-host because of her growing family. She wanted to be able to spend quality time with her family instead of spending a long time at a movie location.
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‘I had to get a nanny because I had no nanny so far and he was like, you know, 8, 9 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 think I need a job where he can grow up with his cousins and his family around him, where I will be there every day to bring him to school,” he said. them out.
Talk show host Rosie O’Donnell at her 1996 New York City show.
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The star of “A League of Their Own” admits she tried to get the job of Kathie Lee Gifford in the late ’90s alongside Regis Philbin, but it did not work out.
O’Donnell left her show after having four children under the age of 6, but called the experience “trippy.”
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“[Hosting] was not like anything close to real life, ‘O’Donnell described. “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. “
