Rosie O'Donnell and Barbara Walters received right into a 'big combat' earlier than filming a 2006 episode of 'The View'

• Rosie O’Donnell revealed that she and Barbara Walters as soon as had a “big combat” backstage at “The View.”
• Per O’Donnell, the combat took place after she confronted Walters about her assist of Donald Trump.
• “It received loud, and folks had been in shock as a result of no person talked to her like that,” O’Donnell recalled.

Rosie O’Donnell opened up a few previous argument she had with Barbara Walters throughout a latest wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter. 

In accordance with O’Donnell, she and Walters (who died in December) received right into a backstage altercation on the set of “The View” after the comic confronted Walters about her feedback to Donald Trump, who was publicly feuding with O’Donnell on the time. 

“We received into an argument within the make-up room that day,” O’Donnell recalled within the interview with THR’s Seth Abramovitch. “I mentioned, ‘I am unable to consider that I have not heard from you throughout all of this time however that you have been speaking with him. Do you contemplate him your actual good friend, Barbara? I assumed we had one thing actual and one thing totally different than the best way you’ve got been treating me.'” 

Per the “League of Their Personal” star, her argument with Walters quickly “received loud,” drawing the eye of different staffers at “The View.” 

“Individuals had been in shock as a result of no person talked to her like that. I mentioned one thing about her daughter, which I should not have mentioned. She was damage. And we had been stay in 20 minutes,” O’Donnell recalled, including that the following episode of the daytime speak present was noticeably tense. 

When pressed by Abramovitch about what she mentioned to Walters about her daughter, O’Donnell mentioned it was “nothing horrible.” 

“Simply that is not the sort of relationship I’ve with my child. ‘I do not know what sort of relationship you’ve got together with your child,'” the comic revealed. 

Finally, O’Donnell mentioned, she apologized to Walters “many instances” after the incident, and the 2 “received previous it” earlier than Walters’ demise in 2022. 

O’Donnell was one of many hosts of “The View” from 2006 to 2007, however later returned for a short stint in 2014. Walters cocreated “The View,” which first aired in 1997, and remained on the present till her retirement in 2014.