Rosie O’Donnell Tells Live Audience, ‘Barbara Walters Fired Me’

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Rosie O’Donnell Tells Live Audience, ‘Barbara Walters Fired Me’

Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Friday, October 5, 2007

Rosie O’Donnell joined the stage at Roseanne Barr’s during her late-night set at Comix.

Rosie O’Donnell Tells Live Audience, ‘Barbara Walters Fired Me’ - PIC

Rosie started off by saying,

“When I was fired by Barbara Walters”

This is the first time she didn’t stick to “The View’s” spin that her departure from the show was by mutual agreement.

Daily Mail reports,

Rosie claimed onstage that Walters and other “View” couch mates wear earpieces through which producers tell them what to say, which she refused to do.

Rosie also confided that she and the veteran newswoman were actually so close early on in her tenure as moderator that Walters recommended Rosie use Astroglide, which, she added, took her by surprise.

“But she paved the way for women,” Rosie allowed. “She interviewed Presidents … ”

“Like Abraham Lincoln,” snapped Barr.

What other’s said:

Dlisted says, “We all knew about the earpiece thing, but ASTROGLIDE?! I totally figured Barbara for an old fashioned Vaseline kind of gal.”

Jossip says, “And while we’re not particularly shocked by O’Donnell’s admission that Walters showed her the door, we are slightly traumatized by the fact that we’re now privy to Barb’s preferred brand of lubrication.”

source: Rosie O’Donnell: Barbara Walters Fired Me From ‘The View’ [daily mail]