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Rosie O'Donnell opens for the first time about the 2006 incident with Kelly Ripa and Clay Aiken. In We weeklyExclusive extract of Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive History of The ViewO'Donnell, 57, details what happened behind the scenes.
In November 2006, Aiken joined Ripa as a cohort on Live with regis and kellyand both were not mistaken. At one point, he put his hand on her mouth and she said, "I do not know where it was, darling!" O & # 39; Donnell responded to Ripa's comment the next morning. View, saying that it was "a homophobic remark". She added, "If he was a straight man, if he was a cute man, if it was a guy for whom she was not questioning her sexuality, she would have said something different . . "
In the new book says everything, written by Ramin Setoodeh, O Donnell explains why she defended Aiken:
A few days before his departure on Live, he had been invited to The View. "He came to my box, crying to find out whether or not he should go out. And I sat down with him and talked to him. He was making his way like many born-again Southern Christians. I kissed him. Not only do I feel the things of the twenty-year-old mother, but that of the twenty-year-old homosexual. When she saw Ripa on TV that day, Rosie could not restrain her anger.
"Then I had just held a crying boy and then watched him gleefully by Kelly Ripa," said Rosie.
After the show, Rosie heard Aiken. First, she said that he thanked her for defending him. And secondly: "I did not know how to go out, so you just did it."
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However, Setoodeh also spoke with the former American idol star, who explained what happened from its end:
Aiken's memory of these events is slightly different from Rosie's. "I have a horrible memory, but I know exactly how it happened," he said. Aiken said he was worried about his interview on The View because a major news anchor had warned him that cohorts might ask him about his sexuality on television. But that did not happen. Instead, Rosie invited Aiken into her fitting room to speak privately before the show, throwing out her makeup team and her bodyguard. She said: "You have to find a boyfriend in North Carolina – not in New York or Los Angeles – and just live there in peace." I said: "# You're very presumptuous, Rosie. "She took my hand, looked in. I was dead in the eyes and with more warmth than I thought, she said," Listen, I'm your sister. "It was the very first time that a stranger was making me come to them."
As she left her box, Rosie promised Aiken a shield of protection. "Nobody will ask you this question in the series," she said. "And if they do, just let this d-ke take care of it."
But Aiken had no idea that Rosie would make her sexual orientation a topic of discussion after Ripa's incident. "I did not see her the same way as her," he said. "The truth is that she explained me in one way, because I had not yet gone out. When she said those words, "If it was a straight man," she was confirming that she knew it was not. It was the worst day of my life. I do not think I had a more devastating moment for me. I remember feeling like shit that day and totally defeated. But I was definitely not mad at her. Aiken said that Rosie then helped him to officially make the cover of People in 2008, introducing him to his publicist.
After O'Donnell spoke about Ripa on the radio, the former star of the soap opera called the View to answer, calling these assertions homophobic "downright scandalous". Now, even though many years later, O'Donnell says she and Ripa are still not friendly.
For me, Rosie did not mince words about Ripa: "I think Kelly Ripa is mean and she does not like me, and she never wanted to talk about what happened. She wanted to have this strange quarrel. Rosie said that under normal circumstances she would have linked herself to Ripa through her All My Children lineage. "She's the daughter of Pine Valley. She and her husband met on the show. This is my ideal point of view. I would have loved it all my life. Both obstacles were never repaired after View's incident. "I see her sometimes at concerts," said Rosie. "She's just looking elsewhere."
In the end, Rosie was very unhappy with The View's executive producer for connecting the call. The series did not do that before. "Bill Geddie thinks it's a good television: two women are fighting." Rosie confronted them about this. "I said," Excuse me Bill, this is the first time you've sabotaged me live. This will not happen again. If it happened again, I would not be in the series. Rosie paused for a dramatic effect. "When it happened again, I left."
Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive History of The View will be published on Tuesday, April 2nd.
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