Elisabeth Hasselbeck has attacked her former The View co-host Rosie O'Donnell for admitting she had a 'crush' on her when they worked together more than a decade ago.
The right-leaning Hasselbeck called the comments 'distubring' and 'offensive' when she appeared on Fox & Friends on Tuesday morning.
'I'll be very honest: I read it and I immediately started praying,' said mother-of-three Hasselbeck. '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.'
Elisabeth Hasselbeck attacks Rosie O'Donnell for 'offensive' admission she had a 'crush' on her while filming The View
'Objectified': The right-leaning TV personality was unhappy with O'Donnell's comments
She continued: 'If you took her words and you replaced "Rosie" for "Ronald," there would be an objectification of women in the workplace, so that is disturbing and it's wrong.
'And whether you're a man or whether you're a woman and you're objectifying women in the workplace, it's wrong.'
The comments that so infuriated Hasselbeck came from an excerpt of Ramin Setoodeh's book Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View obtained by Variety.
Cross: O'Donnell had said she felt like a mentor to Hasselbeck when they worked together in 2006 and 2007, and later developed a non-sexual 'crush'
O'Donnell had said she felt like a mentor to Hasselbeck when they worked together in 2006 and 2007, and later developed a non-sexual 'crush'.
She said: 'Not that I wanted to kiss her. I wanted to support, raise, elevate her, like she was the freshman star shortstop and I was the captain of the team.
'I was going to Scottie Pippen her. If I was [Michael] Jordan, I was going to give her and the ball and let her shoot. But it was in no way sexualized.'
