Thursday May 31, 2007
Katie Orlinsky/Sipa Press
How is Rosie O’Donnell spending her first days of freedom since leaving The View? Video blogging and getting acupuncture.
On Wednesday night, O’Donnell’s second official day of unemployment (she was scheduled to return to work Tuesday after taking a few days off, but instead, decided to leave the show for good), the comedian posted multiple haikus on her blog titled "Safety Nets," in which she describes how she’s coping as a free woman.
day two
and it is ok
i had acupuncture
[…]
it hurt in a good way
one u can survive
as the promise of freedom
maybe movement
allows the ache
i breathe thru it
2 find
some open place inside
where there was none b4
[…]
i am completely captivated
i spend 2 much time
trying to design a safety net
as the concept of losing one
haunts me
However, O’Donnell ended her entry on a decidedly optimistic note, writing:
tomorrow more sun
look madge
i am soaking in it
with thanks 2 all
peace b with u
At the beginning of Tuesday’s episode, Barbara Walters thanked O’Donnell for taking over for Meredith Vieira after she moved on to the Today show last year.
"We will always be grateful to Rosie for her contribution this year,” Walters said. "She's welcome to come back anytime she wants and we hope that it will be often."
But O’Donnell’s experience on The View seems to have left a bitter taste in her mouth. In a video posted on her blog over the weekend, the comedian confessed that she always felt like an outsider on the morning chat show.
"I was really just like the foster kid for a year," she said of her stint on the show. "I came and we considered adoption, but I really didn't fit into the family, and then it was time for the foster kid to go back home."
O'Donnell, 44, said in the video that she tried to form a friendship with cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck, 29, to no avail.
"I never tried harder to be friends with someone than I did with her from the get go, but I don't think we ended up there, anywhere close," she said.
On Wednesday, May 23, O’Donnell and Hasselbeck, who frequently argued about politics, had an intense on-air argument inspired the comedian to end her contract three weeks early.
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