Former Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell raised a few eyebrows Wednesday night when she refused to answer questions from CNN’s Piers Morgan about her views on gay marriage — culminating in a weird moment where she walked off the set in the middle of the interview.
O’Donnell had appeared on Morgan’s show to talk about her book, “Troublemaker,” wherein she talks about her Senate race against Democrat Chris Coons, her now-infamous “I’m not a witch” ad and her views on fiscal and social issues. When asked why she wouldn’t answer questions about abstinence or gay marriage — issues that she does discusses in her book — she called the host “rude” several times and asked: “Don’t you think as a host that if I say that’s what I want to talk about that’s what we should address?” When Piers chuckled and said “Not really, no,” O’Donnell appeared to be taking instructions from an aide before she walked off the set, a figure blocking the camera as she did so.
Morgan seemed amused by the incident, and tweeted jokes about it later. He invited O’Donnell to come back on his show the next night, but she later tweeted that her schedule was already full and added, “No hard feelings, you cheeky bugger.”
She later told the New York Observer that she’d been running late for another engagement during that interview, and Piers was just “looking for ratings, and trying to stir up a controversy.” She then said on NBC’s “Today” show Friday that she walked off because of Morgan’s “very inappropriate, creepy line of questioning,” and that she wanted to stop the “borderline sexual harassment that was going on.”
