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October 3, 2007

Rosie's Jabs Unveiled in Book

Rosie O’Donnell’s book “Celebrity Detox” has hit shelves, and she’s not holding back about how she really feels about her fellow celebrities.

She writes she felt like an outsider on “The View,” saying she considered herself “hugely threatening.”

She says Elisabeth Hasselbeck “continued to appall me with her almost glib comments about torture…but the feeling of baseline love stayed.” Rosie left the show after a heated on-air fight with Elisabeth about the Iraq War, when she argued that Elisabeth wouldn’t “defend” her against negative publicity.

It’s a similar sentiment in her dealings with Barbara Walters.

Rosie feels that her co-host betrayed her during her infamous fights with Donald Trump.

She writes that she told Barbara, “You did not defend me…don’t let the bad man hurt me.”

Though she writes that she and Barbara eventually found a way to love each other, she claims that the 78-year-old host “doesn’t do intimacy.”

As for Trump, she calls him “totally creepy. He was sadistic in a deeply disturbing way.”


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I’ve ALWAYS been appalled w/ HER glib comments - THEY’RE the torture. Unfortunately, war has always been a necessary evil (especially in dealing with lunatics), and the results of certain battles are the reason that every idiot w/ a pie-hole can speak his or her mind, no matter how inane. I guess we have to take the informed w/ the ignorant,and also realize there are many shades of grey within the black and white ‘boxes’that some insist on placing their discussions.


- sue
Posted 10/14/07 05:41 PM
 

Does she ever shut up. She was wrong and she knows it. Thank god Whoopi is on the view now. I may not agree with whoopi on some issues but at least she doesn’t yell and scream. She agrees to disagree.


- Anonymous
Posted 10/04/07 11:48 AM
 

UUUMM the book doesn’t come out until next week. Extra you are wrong about the book coming out. GET YOUR INFORMATION CORRECT!!!!!!


- Gustavo
Posted 10/03/07 08:45 PM
 

Rosie is paradoxically a bully whose lack of confidence requires that her friends repeatedly defend her.
As for dissing the View; she took the money, kept the revolting show in a constant state of upheaval, and browbeat anyone who disagreed with her. What a loser she is. Rich maybe, but still personally a disgusting person.


- JayF
Posted 10/03/07 08:13 PM
 

i think mr trump is a very tacky uncouth ignorent person to call a women them names has he ever taken a good look at his life lately i hope his wife gives him some tactfulness training


- donna
Posted 10/03/07 05:27 PM
 

Rosie is a disgrace and an ingnorant slob. I think she’s been hanging upside down in her bat cave a little too long!


- Linda
Posted 10/03/07 12:33 PM
 

I love Rosie. She always kept it real on The View. That’s what I like most about her. She’s not phony like most of the “ON-AIR PERSONALITIES”


- wynnterday
Posted 10/03/07 12:28 PM
 

Rosie is great. She says things that a lot of people think but are afraid to say because of the backlash. I may not agree with everything she says or does, but I love her for making life better for so many people.


- Patty Stepro
Posted 10/03/07 10:22 AM
 

Rosie is an adult.She can defend herself and her statements.She has no one to blame but herself.She needs help badly.


- Anonymous
Posted 10/03/07 09:25 AM
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