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CELEBRITY DETOX with Rosie O’Donnell
I have never been a fan of Rosie O’Donnell’s. I have always found her to be rather annoying.
She has a memoir coming out soon and if the early press is any indication readers will learn some details about Rosie’s horrendous childhood that might shed some light on why she is such a difficult person.
According to the Boston Herald:
“Funnygal Rosie O’Donnell, starved for attention and sympathy after the loss of her mother at age 10, confesses she would break her own bones with a baseball bat or wooden hangers.
Fox.com reported yesterday that O’Donnell, whose “Celebrity Detox” memoir hits bookstores Oct. 2, reveals how she smashed “my hands and fingers usually” and no one knew.
“It was a secret,” Rosie writes, adding that she often used a Mets baseball bat she got on bat day or the hanger. “It was proof I had some value, enough to be fixed.”
The serial blogger and former moderator of “The View” said having a cast was a useful commodity in her motherless household.
“There were many benefits to having a cast,” she wrote. “In the middle of the night, it was a weapon,” she writes, without further explanation.
O’Donnell, who abruptly left “The View” last spring after a highly publicized feud with co-host Elisabeth Hasslebeck, also addressed her rocky relationship with the show’s creator, Barbara Walters.
She wrote that while she and Walters are on better terms now, Babs resented O’Donnell’s popularity on the ABC hen party.
“During the commercial, people scream ‘I love you Rosie,’ ” O’Donnell recalled. “And Barbara tells them in a schoolteacher tone, ‘It is impolite to say ‘I love you’ to one person when there are four of us up here.’ Then a stony silence sets in.”
Gulp.
Rosie also couldn’t let the whole Donald Trump thing rest, calling her arch-nemesis a “gelatinous slug” in the book.
In “Celebrity Detox,” Ro also explained how being back in the public eye took its toll on her family life.
There’s a “shift that happens in the head that very few celebrities will ever really speak about,” she wrote.
“One begins to believe in the specialness, and a dangerous sense of entitlement takes over,” Ro wrote. “When celebrity addiction starts, you become impatient with, and even angry at necessary obstacles. You think you could run a red light or two. And then you do.”
OUCH!
I still find her annoying. Now I also find her to be sad, pathetic, almost worthy of sympathy…I said ALMOST.
And this thing about being able to use her cast as a weapon in the night is cryptic and tragic.
Rosie continues her insult marathon with Donald Trump in her new book. I interviewed Trump a few years ago and it was a real waste of time. The verbal sparring between the Donald and Rosie is also a waste of time.
This book will sell bushels. There’s always a market for time wasters….the book is already a top ten bestseller at Amazon.com.
Vick Mickunas
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