Rosie O'Donnell says her new love,
Michelle Rounds, doesn't look gay.
In a new interview to air Monday night
on ABC's Nightline, O'Donnell, 49, talks about meeting her
girlfriend.
“I walked into a Starbucks in the
summer and she was holding a little puppy,” O'Donnell said. “I
thought she was a 28-year-old heterosexual girl, because that's what
she looked like to me. And she's a 40-year-old gay woman.”
“My gaydar was way off!” she said
with a laugh.
“I think if I had known that she was
gay, I wouldn't have been brave enough to talk to her,” O'Donnell
added. (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.)
O'Donnell returns to television on
Monday with a new nightly talk show on Oprah Winfrey's OWN cable
network. The Rosie Show marks O'Donnell's long-anticipated
return to television.
In March, O'Donnell, who came out gay
in 2002 and shares 4 children with ex-wife Kelli Carpenter, told
shock jock Howard Stern that she and former girlfriend Tracy
Kachtick-Anders, an artist who is raising six children, had not
split.
“We didn't really break up,”
O'Donnell said. “She just has six kids … and I have four. It's
insanity.”
Previously, O'Donnell had referred to
her relationship with Kachtick-Anders as the Gay-dy Bunch: “Tracy
has six kids, she lives next door … It's a lot! We're the Gay-dy
Bunch! It's a challenge, but when you fall in love with someone,
they come with a whole bunch of things, including children.”