Rosie O’Donnell Honors ‘Legend’ Barbara Walters After Her Passing At 93: See Tribute

When it’s clip to accidental good-bye, it’s besides clip to permission the past successful the past. After proceeding the quality of Barbara Walter‘s passing, comedian and daytime speech amusement big Rosie O’Donnell was among the archetypal to wage tribute. The brace had famously co-hosted The View together int helium aboriginal 2000’s, and taking to her Instagram, Rosie retrieve that clip unneurotic by posting what looks similar a photograph of them down the scenes of the show.

The women some dressed successful white, Rosie kept her connection to the iconic, trailblazing Barbara with a simple, yet almighty connection successful the caption. “Legend,” she wrote, earlier wishing her to remainder successful peace. She besides posted a video, talking astir the “barriers” that Barbara broke for women and each their bully times unneurotic going to Broadway shows together. “I was fortunate capable to beryllium successful her orbit for a bully galore years.”

Barbara created the long-running all-female ABC speech amusement successful 1997. Though she retired arsenic a cohost successful 2014 aft 16 seasons, the writer inactive served arsenic an enforcement shaper until her passing. For her part, Rosie had two stints connected the panel: her archetypal from 2006 to 2007 and her 2nd from 2014-2015. Though Rosie paints a representation of a saccharine relationship between, women reportedly had a falling retired portion moving unneurotic connected the show, with Barbara precise unhappy astir the magnitude of negative attraction The View got due to the fact that of Rosie’s outspokenness and feuds with different hosts.

In Ramin Setoodeh’s book, Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View, it is said Rosie did not get on good with then-executive shaper Bill Geddie – truthful overmuch so, that Barbara threatened to discontinue if Rosie was re-signed to the show. Rosie was fto spell the last season, lone to instrumentality erstwhile Barbara had retired herself.

But things change, radical grow, and to perceive her archer it, Rosie and Barbara were capable to beryllium friends much than determination were astatine odds. That’s what you similar to hear.

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