'I don’t know if it’s jealousy, competition, or the fact that she said a mean thing about me once that really hurt my feelings.”
As you may know, the two have known each other since the '90s, when they were both rising comics. RosieNbc / Todd Owyoung / NBC via Getty Images
She recalled how she would"go to parties" with Ellen, Melissa Etheridge, and k.d. lang, and how she'd even hosted Ellen on an episode of her show, where she'd joked with her about being"Lebanese" before Ellen came out."We supported each other," she added."Which is why when she came on my show, I said, 'Let me not have you standing there by yourself. 'Let’s get a joke in there.
"It became a strange, 'There can’t be two lesbians in this town,' kind of a thing," Rosie said."Then we each had success and went our separate ways."But recently, she received a text from Ellen. “She texted me a few weeks ago checking in, seeing how I’m doing, and I asked her how she’s surviving not being on TV,” Rosie shared. “It’s a big transition. But we’ve had our weirdness in our relationship.
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