Rosie ODonnell alleges her fight on The View…
Rosie O’Donnell is reflecting on that iconic daytime fight.
The comic, 63, got here to blows with her “View” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck in 2007 over American navy exercise in the Middle East while live on air.
The heated exchange received so out of hand that the show turned off its live shot and created a split-screen of the 2 girls going at it. This sort of shot was unprecedented at the time and grew to become one of the show’s most talked about moments.
Rosie O’Donnell recollects her iconic fight with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on “The View.” Ricki-Lee & Tim Joel/TikTok
Now, O’Donnell alleges that the argument was set up by the show’s producer.
“I can not believe that this woman, after all I did for her, because when I took that job, I made one commitment to myself, that I was not going to be her enemy, that I was going to meet her as a person,” the previous host said while on the “Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel” podcast.
O’Donnell and Hasselbeck, 48, are on reverse sides of the political spectrum. The stand-up comedian leans left while Hasselbeck is correct leaning.
Rosie O’Donnell reveals new data about her fight with Elisabeth Hasselbeck in 2007. Ricki-Lee & Tim Joel/TikTok
The star recalled of their friendship “she came to my house, she was in my pool, she brought her little kid, I took her kid to ‘Sesame Street Live,’ I took her to her first Broadway opening,” and noting that she “bent over backwards for this woman.”
So, of course, O’Donnell was shocked that “here she was coming at me on national TV about whether or not I was patriotic.”
“It felt to me like I was on a basketball team of five women, and one of them kept tripping me on the way to the hoop. When they had the split screen?” O’Donnell added while on the podcast.
Rosie O’Donnell fights with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on “The View.” ABC
Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Joy Behar during the 2007 fight on “The View.” ABC
When requested if she knew that the split-screen was taking place, she responded: “Of course not.”
O’Donnell said this system’s late producer, Bill Geddie, knew that the fight was going to happen.
The former producer, who died in 2023 at age 68, labored on the “View” from its first season 1997 until 2014.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck on “The View.” ABC
“Our producer is not an on-the-fly kind of guy, he wasn’t mister like, ‘Let’s go to the split-screen.’ That was prepared. So, the whole thing, I think, was a setup,” O’Donnell alleged.
The Post reached out to reps for O’Donnell and Hasselbeck.
Shortly after the fight, the “Rosie O’Donnell Show” alum left the desk but later returned as a panelist from 2014 to 2015.
“The View” hosts Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd alongside Michelle Obama. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images
Hasselbeck, meanwhile, stayed on the show until 2013. The anchor returned as a visitor co-host in 2022.
After Hasselbeck’s 2022 look, O’Donnell said that her former coworker’s return made her bear in mind “why I don’t wanna watch it with her anymore.”
However, this wasn’t the first time O’Donnell spoke out about her time on the ABC daytime sequence.
“I know this, it’s not the best use of my talent to get in a show where I have to argue and defend basic principles of humanity and kindness. It was not something I’d ever do again,” the actress said while on the “Now What? With Brooke Shields” podcast.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck on “GMA” in March. ABC via Getty Images
Despite exiting the show twice, O’Donnell explained that she needed to preserve a good relationship with its creator and panelist, Barbara Walters.
“Barbara and I got along after, we went out to dinner, we knew each other way before I did that show, before she asked me to do it, and we remained friendly toward the end. I forgave her, because she was older and did the best that she could with what she had to work with, but it’s nothing I’d want to do again, I can say that.”
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