Fans of ABC’s daytime chat show The View can always count on spirited conversations among the hosts, which sometimes turn contentious. One of the show’s most infamous spats occurred when co-hosts Rosie O’Donnell and Elizabeth Hasselbeck clashed live on air after months of tension. In a new interview with Australian radio host Joel Creasey, O’Donnell makes a bold statement about the on-air feud, pulling no punches as she shares her opinion on what happened between her and Hasselbeck—going so far as to call it a “setup.”

In the interview, O’Donnell appears calm and collected as she recounts trying to befriend her former co-host, only to feel betrayed once the cameras started rolling.

She said, “I cannot believe that this woman, after all I did for her—because when I took that job, I made one commitment to myself: that I was not going to be her enemy, that I was going to meet her as a person. And so she came to my house, she swam in my pool, she brought her little kid. I took her kid to Sesame Street Live. I took her to her first Broadway opening. I bent over backwards for this woman. And here she was coming at me on national TV about whether or not I was patriotic. It felt to me like I was on a basketball team of five women, and one of them kept tripping me on my way to the hoop.”