Rosie O’Donnell says that the fight of Elisabeth Hasselbeck “View” was an “installation”

Rosie O’Donnell returns to an explosive fight in which she engaged with Elisabeth Hasselbeck The viewAffirming that the conflict had been caused by the producers of the series.

O’Donnell thought about the argument, which took place during an episode of the Talk-show in May 2007, while he appeared on the program Ricki-Lee, Tim and Joël podcast.

“Our producer is not the type to move on the fly, he was not the type:” Let’s go to the shared screen “. It was prepared, “said O’Donnell about the late producer of the series, Bill Geddie, who died in 2023.” So, I think, was a stroke. »»

During the 2007 episode, The view The co-animators embarked on a heated debate on the involvement of America in the war in Iraq. At one point, O’Donnell reproached Hasselbeck for not having defended him when the media accused him of qualifying the American troops as “terrorists”.

“You are an adult and I will certainly not be the person you need to explain your thoughts; these are your thoughts!” Hasselbeck shouted in response, while the episode was published so that it and O’Donnell are side by side.

“I felt like I was part of a basketball team made up of five women, and one of them kept making me stumble on the hoop path. When they had the shared screen?” O’Donnell said in the recent interview.

O’Donnell also added that the argument was particularly hurtful because she thought she and Hasselbeck had a real friendship at the time.

“I cannot believe that this woman, after all that I did for her, because when I accepted this position, I made a commitment to myself, namely that I was not going to be her enemy, that I was going to meet her as a person,” said O’Donnell.

She continued to share an overview of their friendship saying: “She came to my house; she was in my pool, she brought her little child. I took her child to Live sesame street; I took her to his first first to Broadway. O’Donnell then went so far as to say that she “put herself in four for this woman”.

Even after Hasselbeck left the series in 2013 and O’Donnell stopped serving as a co-host in 2015, after his departure at the end of the 2007 season, their quarrel continued in the following years.

Hasselbeck, known for his conservative opinions, returned to be a guest co-host on The view In 2022. After the broadcast of the episode, O’Donnell went to Tiktok to reveal that she had watched the episode and that reminded her “why I don’t want to look at him with her”.

She then expressed her problems with Hasselbeck’s accessories, including the post-it that she used to assert her arguments. “His little post-it … I don’t know. Listen, it’s strange,” said O’Donnell. “I hope you have a good day, and if you saw it yesterday, I hope you recovered.”