Elisabeth Hasselbeck pleads with Rosie O'Donnell to “stop lying” as comedian reignites 2007 fight allegation

Rosie O'Donnell made some new claims against Elisabeth Hasselbeck in her recent podcast.

Speaking on Nova's Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel podcast, the comedienne recalled her infamous 2007 clash with Hasselbeck on ABC's The View,

“The whole thing, I think, was a set-up”

She elaborated, highlighting the incident which had O'Donnell and Hasselbeck arguing "side-by-side" on a split-screen (sic),

"Our producer (was) not an on-the-fly kind of guy … he wouldn’t have been like, ‘Let’s go to a splitscreen.’ That was prepared.”

The interaction happened during the latest episode of Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel.

Now Elisabeth has responded to Rosie's claims through multiple stories posted on her Instagram. The conservative presenter, who is also an alum of Survivor and co-hosted The View from 2003-13, reportedly said,

"Stop the madness, stop the lying, and just be free..."

She claimed to have "repeated tried to call" Rosie O'Donnell to quell their feud, which the latter "refused." On O'Donnell's frequent and irreverent mentions of the "splitscreen" incident, Elisabeth said the comments were an "attack on her work and personal character,"

"I love my friends who disagree with me. I tried to call you many times and reach out to you after that, Rosie, and you don’t want repair."

A clip of their confrontation from YouTube is linked below:

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What really happened between Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck

The backdrop of the cohosts' confrontation was America's offensive campaigns in Iraq and their naturally differing viewpoints. Rosie O'Donnell eventually faced public backlash over her statements surrounding the country's foreign policy by implying that American troops were terrorists as a result of Iraqi deaths in the Iraq War.

What later ensued was a verbal disagreement as cohosts Sherri Shepard and Joy Behar looked on. Upon rewatching the clip on her podcast appearance, O'Donnell said,

"What I was thinking the whole time was, ‘I cannot believe that this woman, after all I did for her'."

Elisabeth, in her clap back, goes on to elaborate on the length Rosie O'Donnell went to make her "miserable,"

“Went back to The View the next day and there was like a bomb going off in the room next to me with music against my walls,

Further adding the point that she was pregnant at the time, she says,

"She made my entire morning miserable, fit-throwing, and then we got to the set and she went off.”

As per Rosie O'Donnell, she took Elisabeth Hasselbeck "under her wing" and looked after her child,

“I bent over backwards for this woman, and here she was coming at me on national TV about whether or not I was patriotic.”

The comedienne is yet to react to Hasselbeck's response.