Rosie O’Donnell Reacts to Kathy Griffin Calling Her Out for Not Inviting Her Onto ‘Kimmel’ Episodes
Rosie O’Donnell is speaking out in response to Kathy Griffin publicly calling her out for not getting an invitation to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live alongside her.
For those who don’t know, Rosie is the guest host for Jimmy Kimmel‘s late night show this week while he continues his summer vacation. Kathy is one of Rosie‘s longtime friends and felt that she should have been invited to appear as a guest during this stint of shows.
Kathy made a YouTube video to air out her feelings this week and Rosie left a comment in response.
What did Kathy Griffin say about Rosie O’Donnell?
“My feelings are really hurt that I was not invited to go on Rosie’s week of the Jimmy Kimmel show. And I love Jimmy so much. He’s one of my oldest friends. I love Rosie. She’s one of my oldest friends. Like I said, we’re good pals. We’re like sisters, and everybody knows sisters fight. Sisters and brothers fight. Best friends fight. Relatives, co-workers fight. And we’re not even fighting. I’m just being honest,” she explained in the video.
“She told me about being asked by the Kimmel show to do a whole week, which I thought was fantastic. I thought it was a great marketing idea. I thought it was a great idea to begin with. She and Jimmy had had many years of kind of a quasi-beef. I mean, it wasn’t serious, serious, but they’re good now, which makes me very, very happy. We talked about her doing Kimmel a lot. And one of the first things I said was, ‘Well, this doesn’t need to be said, but I would love to be a guest,’” she continued.
“Think about it. You’ve got these two women who share this very unique thing in common. And while what happened to me was much more extreme than what happened to Rosie, it’s pretty unusual that you’ve got these two women that have been so outspoken. He wasn’t the president when she talked about him on The View, but he was the president when I talked about him. And as I have spoken about before, most of Hollywood turned on me overnight. The phone stopped ringing. I got fired from every job that I had coming up. I ended up going on for seven years without work, which was really bad for my brain,” she went on to say, referring to their respective feuds with President Donald Trump.
Kathy added, “As it was coming closer that she was going to do the show, I started getting more correspondence and just friends calling me that know me and know the two of us to be friends, saying, ‘Which night are you doing? Are you going to be a surprise? Are you guys doing a sketch or just a sit-down interview? Are you guys going to do a song together? It’s going to be great, the two of you together talking about this, of all things.’ And I admit I was kind of getting excited, like, yeah, this could be a really cool moment. Then that moment passed and kept passing.”
“I was told specifically that ABC had nothing to do with keeping me off the show, and Kimmel and the staff had nothing to do with keeping me off the show. It’s important to me to say that. I didn’t think it sounded like something that would come from the Kimmel show, but once again, that’s their prerogative, and I was told by every person that I spoke to that it did not.”
“I will watch every night and cheer her on. Of course. If I have one call to action, it’s that you guys watch the show and support her. Support comedy. Support women in comedy. Support bold people in comedy because we don’t get rewarded very much. We usually get fired,” she added.
“I am just here to tell you my feelings were hurt. That’s it. That’s as deep as it gets. I’m always honest with you guys, good, bad or indifferent, and this felt like one of the times I just had to kind of put it out there and see how you feel.”
Rosie O’Donnell responds to Kathy Griffin
Rosie left a very simple response for Kathy.
“Kathy- shoulda called me honey – I didn’t choose the guests …” she said in an Instagram comment.
Rosie‘s guests include Hannah Waddingham, Jean Smart, Charlie Day, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, and her new Broadway crush, Sydney James Harcourt from the musical Cats: The Jellicle Ball.
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