A cancer survivor burst into tears Wednesday when she testified that Rosie O'Donnell suggested she was lying about goings-on at her now-defunct magazine and told her liars get cancer.
Cindy Spengler, who was head of marketing at "Rosie" magazine, said O'Donnell made the remark after a meeting to discuss the magazine's problems. Spengler said O'Donnell told her that her silence in the meeting was tantamount to lying.
"You know what happens to people who lie," the witness quoted O'Donnell as saying. "They get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again."
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She told O'Donnell, "Your mother died of breast cancer. Was she lying?"
"Yes," Spengler quoted the entertainer as replying.
Outside court, O'Donnell said she called Spengler the next morning and apologized for the cancer comment.
"I'm sorry I hurt her the way I did," she said. "That was not my intention."
Spengler admitted sending an e-mail on Oct. 1, 2002, to Susan Toepfer, Rosie's editor-in-chief, suggesting that "we do our own little 'ding dong the witch is dead' song and dance" to celebrate the severance of O'Donnell's relationship with G+J.
Toepfer responded via e-mail that she wanted to move into O'Donnell's office, that she would "take out the bad vibes" and said "I think you're supposed to burn sage in all the corners."
O'Donnell quit the magazine in mid-September 2002, following a dispute over editorial control.
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