Rosie's View of Life
Rosie O'Donnell may not be talking to Elisabeth Hasselbeck anymore, but that doesn't mean she won't be writing about her.
The former View cohost has indicated that her upcoming memoir, Celebrity Detox, will provide an insider's perspective on her experiences on the show, as well as on the circumstances that led her to abandon her eponymous talk show in 2002.
"celeb detox/is about leaving my show 4 yrs ago/and doing the view this year/its all in there," she wrote on her Website this week.
O'Donnell originally planned her book as a chronicle of how she became a fame junkie, then kicked the habit when she walked away from her Emmy-winning talk show to focus on her family.
But when she decided to end her self-imposed withdrawal from show business last year, it became necessary to rework the book to reflect her return to entertainment.
And there's no doubt that her yearlong tenure on the View deserves a chapter or two of its own.
While holding down her seat on the sofa, O'Donnell proved especially apt at stirring up controversy, from exchanging verbal darts with Donald Trump to enraging the Asian community by her use of "ching-chong" to approximate the Chinese language.
Then came her abrupt exit from the show last week after her infamous on-air verbal skirmish with Hasselbeck, which should, in itself, provide plenty of material for an epilogue.
The memoir's promotional materials describe it as "the admirably forthright story of O'Donnell's 1,098-day celebrity detox, brimming with the stuff of life—family, friends, and her soul-expanding journey from feeling lost to feeling found." The book is due to hit shelves on Sept. 18.
Meanwhile, though O'Donnell has said she's "not sorry" about how her View stint ended, her latest musing on her blog seems to tell a different story.
Though ostensibly about the pain of getting acupuncture to break up scar tissue in her hand, her words hint at a deeper pain possibly related to the events of last week.
"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," she wrote.
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