Rosie O’Donnell Recalls Unexpected Run-In With Whoopi Goldberg Years After ‘The View’ Fallout

Rosie O’Donnell shared a sweet moment with her former The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg, more than a decade after their daytime TV fallout.

“I thought that can’t be Whoopi Goldberg, right?” O’Donnell, 64, told Andy Cohen of standing on stage at the Cats: Jellicle Ball on June 9. “But she’s pretty identifiable. You know, it’s not like a lot of people look like Whoop.”

“You know, she’s been very kind. I’ve seen her a couple times since our disastrous, tag team, hellacious View extravaganza,” the former talk show host added during her Tuesday, June 16, appearance on Cohen’s Sirius XM show.

Goldberg, 70, was in the audience with her daughter, Alex Martin, O’Donnell recalled.

“She told me that she just became a great grandmother again or something. And you know, she had a baby young and her daughter had them young, so she doesn’t look like a great grandmother. She looks fantastic,” O’Donnell added.

Goldberg, for her part, had similar kind words to say of her former co-host during the June 10 broadcast of The View.

“Yes, Rosie was there, she looks amazing,” Goldberg told viewers. “She has a one-woman show she’s doing, too. She’s got all kinds of great stuff going on, but she looked amazing.”

The two women worked together during season 18 of the long-running series. However, after on-set drama, O’Donnell exited the show one month before her contract was set to expire.

“Whoopi Goldberg was as mean as anyone has ever been on television to me, personally — while I was sitting there,” O’Donnell told Ramin Setoodeh for the author’s book, Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View. “Worse than Fox News. The worst experience I’ve ever had on live television was interacting with her.”