Rosie O’Donnell: Breaking Up Was The Hardest Thing To Do
January 26th, 2010
Rosie O’Donnell opened up about her split from partner Kelli Carpenter and the real reason behind her leaving The View, during a chat with Oprah on Monday (January 25).
“I think what you want and need at 35 is different from what you want and need at 45, 50,” O’Donnell told the talk show queen, admitting that when she left The View, “a lot of things changed and shifted… We both came back to our authentic selves and it wasn’t as great as when we met.”
“To be held up as some sort of role model for the gay community,” she continues, “I felt some sort of pressure… Sometimes divorce happens… It was a difficult thing to get through. It was the most difficult thing in my life.”
O’Donnell also gave a reason why she walked out of her top-rating role on the morning talk show following a blistering on-air argument with Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
“I didn’t come back because the director and the producer did a split screen,” she explains. “And they had to prepare that in advance. I knew that because I was the producer of my own television show. I felt there was a little bit of a setup involved in egging me into that position.”
