Rosie O'Donnell - part 2
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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More with Rosie O'Donnell as she shares the heartbreaking reason she came out publicly in 2002 and what raising a child with autism has taught her about parenting and acceptance. Plus, hear all about her new one-woman show and what fans can expect when she fills in as host on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Hi, everyone. It's Sophia. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome back with Smarties. |
| 0:20.7 | Let's dive right back into our fantastic conversation with Rosie O'Donnell. |
| 0:26.2 | When you came out in public, I mean, yes, all bets were kind of off societally. I think people realized so much of what they thought they cared about was bullshit after 9-11 happened. Like, what are we fighting about? |
| 0:38.6 | Look what happens in the world. |
| 0:40.8 | You know, it's like, it's that seismic experience of when you have a death in the family |
| 0:45.0 | and then everyone stops fighting. |
| 0:46.4 | You're like, I can't believe we wasted all this time. |
| 0:48.7 | But it was still, I mean, it was still a risk. |
| 0:52.1 | Like, I remember watching Ellen and she came out and her show got canceled. |
| 0:58.9 | Like, I remember those things. |
| 1:00.9 | Yes, but I came out because we had had a foster child that we were not allowed to adopt. |
| 1:08.8 | And because we were gay. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.8 | There were two male nurses, Lofton and Cruto, who had taken AIDS babies during the AIDS |
| 1:19.2 | crisis when the parents of both died of drug addiction, taken the HIV positive |
| 1:24.3 | children and adopted, fostered them. |
| 1:27.3 | And then some of them zero converted to negative because of their care and treatment. |
| 1:34.3 | And sometimes that happens with babies. |
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