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\nElisabeth Hasselback responded to Rosie O’Donnell’s recent comments about their split-screen fight on The View in 2007The former panelist asked O’Donnell to “stop the lying” and “madness,” in since-expired videos shared on her Instagram Stories”I really hope that you can be released from whatever this is that’s causing you to cause such harm,” she said<\/p>\n
Elisabeth Hasselbeck<\/a> has a message for Rosie O’Donnell<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n The View alum, 48, spoke to her former colleague in a series of since-expired Instagram Stories on Thursday, Oct. 9. In them, she told O’Donnell to “stop the madness” just days after the 63-year-old comedian claimed that the pair’s famous 2007 spat on the ABC talk show was \u201ca setup” by production.\n<\/p>\n During the moment, which aired on May 23, 2007,<\/a>\u00a0the then-panelists got into a heated exchange when O’Donnell accused Hasselbeck of not defending her against right-wing media criticism of her anti-war sentiments. The\u00a010-minute segment<\/a>\u00a0ended in a split-screen shoutfest.\n<\/p>\n Two days after it aired, ABC announced that O’Donnell asked to be released from her contract.\n<\/p>\n Nearly two decades later, during an appearance on the Australian drive-time radio show\u00a0Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel<\/a>, O’Donnell claimed she “bent over backwards” for Hasselbeck before her coworker questioned her patriotism on air. She added that she believed “the whole thing” \u2014 referring to the resulting split-screen argument \u2014 was “prepared” and a “setup.”\n<\/p>\n Now, Hasselback is asking O’Donnell to “stop the lying.”\n<\/p>\n “And even maybe if you don’t stop, I still forgive you,” she said in one since-deleted Instagram Stories clip, shared by Entertainment Weekly<\/a> and Entertainment Tonight<\/a>. “And it can just be so much more free, Rosie, if you can just stop. Stop the madness, stop the lying and just be free.”\n<\/p>\n “I really hope that you can be released from whatever this is that’s causing you to cause such harm,” she later added.\n<\/p>\n Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Rosie O’Donnell on ‘The View’ in 2014.<\/p>\n Lou Rocco\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n In her emotional response, Hasselbeck brought up her relationship with fellow The View star Whoopi Goldberg<\/a>, describing her as “a friend who doesn\u2019t want me to think how she thinks.” She then claimed that O’Donnell “time and time again wants to spread lies and hate,” per EW.\n<\/p>\n Hasselbeck alleged that she “tried to call” O’Donnell following their spat, saying that ABC made her “call and apologize” and that she believes her former colleague brings up the 2007 moment “in a way that\u2019s personally attacking me and the integrity of our work there and my personal character.”\n<\/p>\n “I love my friends who disagree with me. I tried to call you many times and reach out to you after that, Rosie, and you don\u2019t want repair,” she said, per the outlet. “I have to go here because you won\u2019t respond. If you want to get together and talk, let\u2019s do it, come over and swim in my pool, come take a couple laps, come back to America and enjoy your nation. We can have an open free dialogues about what we disagree on. I\u2019ll make you dinner, what do you want to stop the bullying?”<\/p>\n Hasselbeck said that “God has good plans” for O’Donnell and wants her to be “released from whatever this is that\u2019s causing you to cause such harm.”\n<\/p>\n Elsewhere in her posts, the former The View co-host said O’Donnell was “tearing someone apart who had an opposing view.”\n<\/p>\n “Stop lying, stop, stop, and in the meantime and even maybe if you don\u2019t stop, I still forgive you and it can just be so much more free, Rosie, if you can just stop,” she said, per EW. She continued, saying, “In Jesus\u2019 name I pray the lies held over you are released and that you can feel freedom and real joy without feeling satisfaction from trying to lie about somebody and destroy their character.”\n<\/p>\n While on the Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel podcast, O’Donnell recalled “all I did” for her former co-host, adding that she “made one commitment to myself” to not be her “enemy” on air.\n<\/p>\n \u201cAnd so, she came to my house, she swam in my pool, she brought her little kid, I took her kid to see\u00a0Sesame Street Live, I took her to her first Broadway opening,” O’Donnell shared. \u201cLike, I bent over backwards for this woman, and here she was comin\u2019 at me on national TV about whether or not I was patriotic. It felt to me like I was on a basketball team of five women and one of them kept tripping me on my way to the hoop.\u201d\n<\/p>\n She added that she “of course” was unaware that the argument would become a split-screen face off between her and Hasselbeck, seemingly referring to late\u00a0View\u00a0co-creator\u00a0Bill Geddie<\/a> as “not an on-the-fly kind of” person. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t, like, Mr. Let\u2019s-go-to-a-split-screen. That was prepared. The whole thing, I think, was a setup.\u201d\n<\/p>\n