Elisabeth Hasselbeck is calling out Rosie O’Donnell.
On Thursday, October 9, Hasselbeck, 48, posted multiple videos on her Instagram Story about her fiery 2007 The View fight with O’Donnell, 63, regarding the Iraq War.
As Globe reported earlier this week, the former The Rosie Show host recently appeared on the Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel podcast and said when producers put her and Hasselbeck on a split screen, it made her think the whole situation was a “setup.”
In Hasselbeck’s Story, she said that she felt the comedian discussed the split screen “in a way that’s personally attacking me and the integrity of our work there and my personal character,” according to Entertainment Weekly.
As for the origin story behind their argument, the Survivor alum noted that O’Donnell was upset with her after she previously “went on Fox News and they asked me about it, and I did not defend her comments [regarding the Iraq war] there.”
“[I] went back to The View the next day and there was like a bomb going off in the room next to me with music against my walls,” Hasselbeck, who was pregnant at the time, recalled per Entertainment Weekly. “She made my entire morning miserable, fit-throwing, and then we got to the set and she went off.”
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Hasselbeck claimed O’Donnell “lost it and threw me into early contractions, but ABC made me call and apologize.”
“I tried to call you many times and reach out to you after that, Rosie, and you don’t want repair,” Hasselbeck insisted. “I have to go here because you won’t respond.”
“If you want to get together and talk, let’s do it, come over and swim in my pool, come take a couple laps, come back to America and enjoy your nation,” she continued seemingly referring to how O’Donnell now resides in Ireland. “We can have an open, free dialogue about what we disagree on. I’ll make you dinner — what do you want to stop the bullying?”
In her Story, Hasselbeck repeatedly begged O’Donnell to “stop lying,” but said she forgives her former co-host regardless.
“Stop the madness, stop the lying and just be free. I just pray God’s fire and glory around you so you can be protected from whatever is holding you back,” Hasselbeck lamented. “In Jesus’ 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.”
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