Rosie O’Donnell believes her on-air 2007 argument with Elisabeth Hasselbeck was staged by producers.

Discussing the clash on ABC’s The View when O’Donnell first served as a cohost almost two decades ago, during an Australian radio interview, O’Donnell did not mince her words. “The whole thing, I think, was a set-up,” O’Donnell said on Nova’s Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel program on Monday, October 6.

Referring to the argument’s visual production, which included a split-screen that showed O’Donnell and Hasselbeck, 48, arguing onscreen at once, O’Donnell noted, “Our producer [was] not an ‘on-the-fly kind of guy’… he wouldn’t have been like, ‘Let’s go to a split screen.’ That was prepared.”

The cohosts’ big bust-up saw their misaligned political opinions reach boiling point after multiple on-air d

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