Last updated May 25, 2007 3:55 p.m. PT
ABC said Friday she asked for, and received, an early exit from her contract at the chatfest following her angry confrontation with co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Wednesday.
She was due to leave in mid-June.
It ended a colorful eight-month tenure for O'Donnell that lifted the show's ratings but no doubt caused heartburn for show creator Barbara Walters. O'Donnell feuded with Donald Trump and frequently had snippy exchanges with the more conservative Hasselbeck.
O'Donnell said last month she could not agree to a new contract with ABC executives.
"Rosie contributed to one of our most exciting and successful years at 'The View,'" Walters said. "I am most appreciative.
Our close and affectionate relationship will not change."
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In a statement, O'Donnell said, "It's been an amazing year and I love all three women."
No one was feeling the love Wednesday, when an argument with Hasselbeck began over O'Donnell's statement last week about the war: "655,000 Iraqi civilians have died. Who are the terrorists?"
Critics accused O'Donnell of calling U.S.
troops terrorists. She called Hasselbeck "cowardly" for not saying anything in in her defense.
Paul Newman says he has given up acting.
"I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to," Newman, 82, told "Good Morning America" on Thursday. "You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me.
"
Newman, star of films such as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," added: "I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough."
Newman plans to focus on the Dressing Room, his new organic restaurant in Westport, Conn.
, and his Hole in the Wall Gang camps for critically ill children.
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