Rosie ODonnell details Ellen DeGeneres painful betrayal: I couldnt believe it

This strained relationship is no laughing matter.Rosie O’Donnell, 63, recently reflected on the fallout that happened between her and Ellen DeGeneres, 67, over twenty years ago.While on Kate Langbroek’s “No Filter” podcast on Monday, the host asked the comic about the time her former friend revealed her sexuality on national television.In 1997, DeGeneres, along with her character, came out on an episode of her sitcom “Ellen.”O’Donnell explained that watching that episode as someone who was still in the closet felt “very threatening.”At the time, the actress was hosting her daytime talk show, “The Rosie O’Donnell Show.”“She came on my show, and I felt strongly that I didn’t want to leave her out there alone,” O’Donnell detailed.

“That I could not (as a) gay person act as though I was not the same as her.”Before they went on-air the two spoke about their game plan.DeGeneres said she wanted to joke that her “Ellen” character was going to “become Lebanese.”O’Donnell said she was going to go along with it.During the interview, after DeGeneres made the joke, O’Donnell replied that she could also be “Lebanese” because she was a fan of American disc jockey Casey Kasem.“Everyone who was gay at home got it,” O’Donnell continued.

“Because I wouldn’t leave her out there alone.I couldn’t do it.

So we had this, you know, really sort of decoded, coded, interaction that anyone who was gay knew.But, you know, the public didn’t really pick up on it.”“And nobody would ask,” she added.

“I remember it felt very threatening.I was on this very successful show.

I was winning all the Emmy awards.” “It just felt like, ‘Oh, this could really threaten me.’ But still, my internal clock wouldn’t allow me to distance myself from her,” stated the star.“I had to stand by her and hold her hand, and that’s what I chose to do.

Then, you know, it’s funny, because she never really, I didn’t think, apprec...