There are serious marriage issues between former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell and Kelli Carpenter. O’Donnell appeared on Howard Stern‘s radio show yesterday to talk about her new gig that will launch November 2, 2009 on Sirius XM to be titled Rosie Radio. In addition to chatting about the new project, she did manage to shed a small amount of light on the marital strife “rumors.”
Kelli and Rosie were married back in 2004 just two weeks after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom authorized the granting of marriage licenses to same sex couples.
Howard wanted to focus on exactly where the marriage stands at this minute. Rosie admitted to Stern, “We have come to the point where we are seeing (if) what will make everyone happiest is maybe not live together, but continue to parent. We have different styles of living. I’m very messy. She’s very not.”
Stern tried to dig deeper for the “real” reason behind the split. Somehow Rosie being a slob doesn’t seem like a deal breaker and Stern is no fool. He suggested that maybe their sex life had broken down. Rosie would only say, “Kelli and I have alot of issues, and sex wasn’t one of them.”
Our guess is that we won’t hear much more than that in any interview. Rosie did make a statement last week and said they are a family and will work together. Read the rest of the statement at Starpulse.