Rosie killed Rosie yesterday. The caustic comic bailed out on her namesake magazine, blasting her corporate publishing partner for seizing editorial control of the women's monthly.
"My integrity and name are at stake, and that price is too high," O'Donnell said. "I cannot have my name on a magazine if I cannot be assured that it will represent my vision and my ideas."
O'Donnell, sporting a short, lopsided hairdo that covered one eye, denied at a news conference that she was "abusive" during the power struggle.
"I never raised my voice in anger except when specific people tried to change Rosie magazine without my consent," she said.
The magazine's demise - its last issue will be December - follows weeks of squabbling between O'Donnell and publisher Gruner+Jahr USA. It also caps a tumultuous year for the entertainer, who ditched her talk show, came out as a lesbian, abandoned her Queen of Nice image and fought rumors her pregnant lover dumped her.
And the drama isn't over: Her walkout leaves millions of dollars in wreckage and a battle that will spill into a courtroom. full story.
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