Rosie on Elisabeth: More from 'Celebrity Detox'

ETOnline: Rosie O'Donnell's New Book: The Inside Scoop

ROSIE O'DONNELL's blistering new tell-all, Celebrity Detox, is stirring up big-time controversy - and ET has a first look at what's inside!

In the book, out October 9, the former "View" co-host opens up about her relationship with BARBARA WALTERS, saying that they didn't always get along - and sometimes even fought over certain issues of control.

"I did not do whatever Barbara Walters asked," says Rosie on page nine. "In fact, I did very little of what she asked."

In the book, Rosie prints a letter that she wrote to her brother in which she clearly didn't feel she was allowed to be herself on the air. She writes, "There is no way I can stay on this show. It is everything I am not. It's called 'The View,' but that's a misnomer; it's really a view, one view, ABC's view, and I'm not a parrot or a puppet...I'm never going to be accepted here."

Rosie also sent Barbara an advance copy of her book, in which she suggests the "View" clan matron should retire, saying, "At some point, a person gets tired. It's inevitable."

Last May, Rosie exited "The View" three weeks earlier than her planned departure, just days after she and conservative co-host ELISABETH HASSELBECK got into a heated on-air dispute regarding the war in Iraq that, at times, turned personal.

On Elisabeth, Rosie writes: "Elisabeth, antiabortion, pro Bush, pro war, believes in everything I don't, and I believe in everything she doesn't. She's as slender as I am fat, as restrained as I am vociferous, as polite as I am frank," adding, "Right from the start I could see in this slip of a girl so different from me, I could see something fierce, a fist in the frill, and I liked that. But we had no language in common."

As for Rosie's much-publicized battle with DONALD TRUMP, she writes: "I started to feel somewhat sorry for him. I also started to see that he was not a man. He had once maybe been a man, or a boy, but that human spirit seemed to have gotten lost to a mechanical repetitive meanness, a push-button person with its circuits askew."

Another stunning revelation leaked from the book has Rosie writing about using a bat to break her own bones as a child, saying, "My hands and fingers usually. No one knew. It was my secret."

Why would she do such a thing to herself? Rosie writes that she did it as "proof I had some value, enough to be fixed." She also writes, "There were many benefits to having a cast. In the middle of the night, it was a weapon." But she never addresses why she might need a weapon.

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