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Rosie O鈥橠onnell has revealed the big financial reason that made her walk away from her hit TV show over 20 years ago.

Despite being offered a ridiculous amount of money to continue her top rated talk show the star walked away instead.

All because of how much money she had sitting in the bank.

Why Rosie O鈥橠onnell walked away from television

In 2002 Rosie O鈥橠onnell was arguably at the top of her career, with six successful years hosting The Rosie O鈥橠onnell show fans couldn’t get enough of the star.

However in a shock move, after being asked by executives to continue for two more seasons O’Donnell chose to walk away from the program, just months after she had come out as gay during a stand up comedy session.

In an interview with she revealed that that upon checking her finances she realised she had a cool $US100 million sitting in her bank account.

鈥淲hen I heard that [number], I thought, 鈥極K, now I鈥檓 done,鈥� she told the publication. 鈥淎nd everyone was like, 鈥榃hy are you leaving?鈥欌��

Rosie was offered a further $100 million to continue with the show, which she promptly turned down, shocking everyone in the industry.

鈥淭hey were like, 鈥榃hy would you say no?鈥欌�� she says, 鈥渁nd I was like, 鈥楤ecause I already have that money and if I think I need more, something鈥檚 wrong with me.鈥欌��

She says she realised she 鈥渉ad enough money to take care of everyone in my life, philanthropy and strangers鈥� and simply wanted to spend time with her family.

In the years since O’Donnell has raised her five children whilst juggling other smaller television appearances, including two stints co-hosting The View and several acting roles on shows such as The Fosters, Queer As Folk, The L Word: Generation Q, Russian Doll and most recently And Just Like That.

In 2024 O’Donnell and her family moved to Ireland and 2025 marking her latest return to stand up comedy, touring her show Common Knowledge聽颈苍迟别谤苍补迟颈辞苍补濒濒测.听

 

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