Rosie O’Donnell has finally opened up about her relationship with partner Kelli Carpenter.
Though last week the former “View” host told USA Today, “We are working on our issues. Those are the only words I am ever going to say,” O’Donnell said a whole lot more than that in an interview with Howard Stern Monday.
According to Popeater.com, O’Donnell told the shock jock, “Kelli and I have a lot of issues and sex wasn’t one of them.”
The 47-year old comedian went on to tell Stern that she and Carpenter have “different styles of living.”
She said they are deciding whether or not “what will make everyone happiest is maybe to not live together, but continue to parent.”
The couple has adopted three children together, Parker, 14, Chelsea, 12, and Blake, 9. In 2002, Carpenter, 42, gave birth to their youngest daughter Vivienne, and Carpenter and O’Donnell were married two years later.
Now, O’Donnell tells Stern she’s not considering dating, though her love life before finding Carpenter was actually quite interesting.
One so-called phone fling included A-Lister Angelina Jolie.
“We talked on the phone two or three times, but that was that. There was a tentative plan to have dinner that never came through,” O’Donnell said. “I was a little afraid of her. She’s scary in a sexual kind of way.”
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The 47-year-old actress responded to questions about the status of her five-year marriage in an interview Tuesday with USA Today, saying “We are a family. We will remain a family forever. And we are working on our issues.”
Rumors that the relationship was on the rocks began after O’Donnell posted cryptic messages on her personal blog about the difficulties of marriage and the fact that she wasn’t aware Carpenter had a Facebook page until a reader asked her about it.
O’Donnell and Carpenter were married in a non-state-recognized ceremony in San Francisco in 2004 and have three adopted children – Parker, 14, Chelsea, 12 and Blake, 9 – as well as daughter Vivienne, 6, whom Carpenter gave birth to via artificial insemination.
“They’re adorable and wonderful and they are by far a priority,” O’Donnell told USA Today. “Kelli and I love each other very much and we are working on our issues. Those are the only words I am ever going to say. Ever. And that is something that has been agreed upon by all parties.”
“But everything’s fine and everybody’s good and we’re still both raising them together,” she added. “We will both continue to parent them and we’re friendly and everything’s all right.”
Carpenter has reportedly moved into the couple’s Manhattan condo with their youngest child, according to RadarOnline.com. According to the gossip site’s sources, O’Donnell’s mood swings were the cause of the split.
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