Rosie O'Donnell and Barbara Walters got into a 'huge fight' before filming a 2006 episode of 'The View'
- Rosie O'Donnell revealed that she and Barbara Walters once had a "huge fight" backstage at "The View."
- Per O'Donnell, the fight came about after she confronted Walters about her support of Donald Trump.
Rosie O'Donnell opened up about a past argument she had with Barbara Walters during a recent wide-ranging interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
According to O'Donnell, she and Walters (who died in December) got into a backstage altercation on the set of "The View" after the comedian confronted Walters about her comments to Donald Trump, who was publicly feuding with O'Donnell at the time.
"We got into an argument in the makeup room that day," O'Donnell recalled in the interview with THR's Seth Abramovitch. "I said, 'I can't believe that I haven't heard from you during all of this time but that you've been communicating with him. Do you consider him your real friend, Barbara? I thought we had something real and something different than the way you've been treating me.'"
Per the "League of Their Own" star, her argument with Walters soon "got loud," drawing the attention of other staffers at "The View."
"People were in shock because nobody talked to her like that. I said something about her daughter, which I shouldn't have said. She was hurt. And we were live in 20 minutes," O'Donnell recalled, adding that the subsequent episode of the daytime talk show was noticeably tense.
When pressed by Abramovitch about what she said to Walters about her daughter, O'Donnell said it was "nothing horrible."
"Just that's not the kind of relationship I have with my kid. 'I don't know what kind of relationship you have with your kid,'" the comedian revealed.
Ultimately, O'Donnell said, she apologized to Walters "many times" after the incident, and the two "got past it" before Walters' death in 2022.
O'Donnell was one of the hosts of "The View" from 2006 to 2007, but later returned for a brief stint in 2014. Walters cocreated "The View," which first aired in 1997, and remained on the show until her retirement in 2014.