Rosie O'Donnell Also Thinks Madonna's Quarantine Diaries are 'a Little Weird'

If you've been keeping up with Madonna on social media, you've probably watched a few of the pop star's "Quarantine Diaries." They're essentially short videos that Madonna shares to social media in which she talks about her current thoughts and feelings while in isolation.

The videos have garnered media attention for Madonna, including a clip of her sitting in a bathtub and calling the coronavirus pandemic "the great equalizer," for which she got a backlash. In another clip, she sits at a typewriter and talks about friends who recently died. More recently, she said she took a test and found out she antibodies for the illness, adding at the time that she planned to take a car ride and "breathe in the COVID-19 air." She later revealed she believed she had COVID-19 while on her "Madame X" tour while in Paris.

But even her friend Rosie O'Donnell is finding Madonna's videos a bit strange. Speaking to Page Six, the actor responded to the clips making headlines.

"I know, I know," O'Donnell said. "With the typing, sitting in the bathtub, reading poetry naked. I don't get it, but she's an artist in her own category and I think she does what she does and she doesn't care who thinks what."

She added that when she talks with Madonna they're not discussing her social media strategy, saying that "she's an artist and that's the only place she has to create right now."

O'Donnell also told Page Six that Madonna is quarantining with her "young lover and she's happy."

"She's got all of her kids except Rocco there and I think that brings her tremendous comfort, but I agree [the videos] are a little weird," O'Donnell said.

Page Six notes that O'Donnell and Madonna met on the set of the Penny Marshall directed 1992 film "A League of Their Own" and became instant friends, bonding over that they both lost their mothers at a young age.