{"id":13030,"date":"2025-09-10T02:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13030\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:39:07","slug":"rosie-odonnell-reflects-on-losing-ellen-degeneres-as-a-friend-calls-it-one-of-the-most-painful-things-in-her-life-ellen-degeneres-rosie-o-donnell-just-jared-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13030\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosie O\u2019Donnell Reflects on Losing Ellen DeGeneres as a Friend, Calls It \u2018One of the Most Painful Things\u2019 in Her Life | Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O Donnell | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/a> is looking back at the end of her friendship with Ellen DeGeneres<\/a> and how it was \u201cone of the most painful things that ever happened\u201d in her life.<\/p>\n

In a new podcast interview, the former talk show host is looking back at what happened.<\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

It has been more than 20 years since Ellen and Rosie had a falling out, which Rosie claims happened after Ellen publicly told the world that they were not friends.<\/p>\n

Ellen appeared on Larry King Live in 2004 and was asked about Rosie\u2018s show being canceled. She replied, \u201cI don\u2019t know\u2026 I don\u2019t really know Rosie that well. I mean, I\u2019ve spoken to her, but we\u2019re not really friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she has received an apology from Ellen in recent years<\/a>, Rosie still admits there was a lot of pain involved. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was like one of the most painful things that ever happened to me in show business in my life,\u201d Rosie said on the No Filter podcast<\/a>. \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it\u2026 I have photos of her holding my newborn babies. I knew her for 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was, all of a sudden, in the position I was in\u2026 and instead of deciding to stand next to me and hold my hand, which is what I did to her, she did the opposite,\u201d Rosie said. <\/p>\n

Rosie said in the new interview that Ellen has reached out and asked why she keeps talking about their falling out, but doesn\u2019t attempt to reach a point of apology. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would have apologized. I would have said, \u2018I\u2019m really sorry I hurt you that much and I don\u2019t why I did that and it was a mistake and I hope you can forgive me.\u2019 That\u2019s what I would have done. But I think in her mind, she thinks I keep rehashing it for pleasure. I don\u2019t rehash it for pleasure. I rehash it because our careers have taken sort of parallel, interwoven paths,\u201d Rosie said. <\/p>\n

Ellen did recently show some public support<\/a> for Rosie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosie O\u2019Donnell is looking back at the end of her friendship with Ellen DeGeneres and how it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-13030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}