Elisabeth Hasselbeck 'Started Praying' After Learning of Rosie O'Donnell's 'Disturbing' Crush

People ^ | 3/26/2019 | Dave Quinn

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck says she’s praying for former View cohost Rosie O’Donnell after hearing that the comedian once had “a little bit of a crush” on her.(snip) Portions of O’Donnell’s interview were published Monday by Variety in an excerpt of Setoodeh’s book.

In them, O’Donnell balked at rumors that she and Hasselbeck were enemies on the ABC daytime show, explaining that she “loved” Hasselbeck and had “a little bit of a crush” on her. Though O’Donnell stressed the crush wasn’t sexual, she said there was “underlying lesbian tones on both [of their] parts,” pointing to Hasselbeck’s time as MVP of a Division 1 softball team.

“There are not many, in my life, girls with such athletic talent on sports teams that are traditionally male that aren’t at least a little bit gay,” O’Donnell said.

Reading O’Donnell’s words upset Hasselbeck. To process her feelings, the mother of three said she turned to prayer.

“I’ll be very honest. I read it and I immediately started praying. Because I’m like, ‘How am I going to handle this?’ ” Hasselbeck said on Fox on Friends, explaining that she didn’t want to fight with O’Donnell as the two had infamously done on The View.

“In my old self, [this] would be another split-screen moment. But now I really feel like by God’s grace, I just started praying — and I pray now the Holy Spirit gives me the words to articulate this — but I think it can be addressed with both truth and grace.”(snip) She told Fox & Friends that she hopes to explain to O’Donnell how the words hurt her, and how “casting a stereotype on female athletes…. that all female athletes are a little bit gay” was “an unfair stereotype and it seems selfish in a way and I think that it’s untrue.”

[Mr. Lucky]

Thank you.

[a fool in paradise]

Said lesbians will date rape the new flesh if they can get the girls sufficiently drunk (”c’mon, girls’ night out!”).