Rosie O’Donnell still wary of Ellen DeGeneres: ‘I don’t trust this person’

nypost.com:

fellow retired talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, 65 — and it’s complicated.“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,” O’Donnell told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Thursday.“It’s a big transition.

But we’ve had our weirdness in our relationship. 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.”She explained to the outlet that DeGeneres said the “mean thing” during an appearance on “Larry King Live.”The Post reached out to reps for DeGeneres for comment.

O’Donnell says King asked DeGeneres, “Whatever happened to Rosie O’Donnell’s show? She went down the tubes as soon as she came out.”DeGeneres replied that she “didn’t know” O’Donnell, and they “weren’t friends,” according to O’Donnell’s account.O’Donnell told THR she didn’t feel the same way — and she claims DeGeneres recently texted her about the situation.“She wrote, ‘I’m really sorry and I don’t remember that,'” O’Donnell alleged. “I guess she saw me talk about it on Andy Cohen’s show.

I remembered it so well, I had T-shirts printed, and I gave them to my staff that said, ‘I don’t know Rosie. We’re not friends.'”She continued, “I have a picture of her holding [my then-infant son] Parker.