Madonna: Helping Rosie O'Donnell with menopause

Madonna: Helping Rosie O'Donnell with menopause

Rosie O'Donnell reveals in an interview on The Tyra Banks Show to air on Thursday and Friday, she has been e-mailing back and forth with Madonna about menopause.

"She's (Madonna) great, she's a lot like a big sister," O'Donnell says. "When I started having my hormone things, I'm like, 'What the hell is going on?' she's like, 'Get the cream.'"

When talking about her body, the former view host doesn't hold anything back.

"Well let me tell you one thing, Tyra: I am about to be 47 next month and Aunt Flow has not shown up for nine months," she says.

"It started for me at 41...I would be in the bed, and I would wake up and the sheets would be soaking wet -- not damp -- soaking wet," she shares. "I thought, 'Oh [daughter] Vivi crawled in here last night and maybe she wet.' So I would throw the covers off and turn to look -- and there's no Vivi, it's just [partner] Kelli. Then I'm like, 'Kelli is incontinent!' And then I realized, no it's me."

What are the other changes in O'Donnell's life? She has given up booze.

"I stopped drinking on Dec. 1. It has not been easy," she admits.

"On Nov. 29, I was with my son, who is now 13, and I said to him, 'Park, can you get me a beer?'" she says. "And he said, 'No I don't want to.' And I said, 'Really why not?' And he says, 'Because you know what, I think you drink too much beer...Lately I think it's too much.'

Rosie O'Donnell was once sober.

"I [told my son], 'You know, when I was a kid -- when I was 22 -- I stopped drinking for, like, eight years.' He goes, 'Well maybe you should do that again.' I go, 'Well honey what happens if I can't do that?'

The adopted mom of Parker has been suggested by him to join Alcoholics Anonymous.

"He said, 'There's a drunk club. I forget what it's called, but you have to, like, be really drunk to get in. I don't know if they'd let you in, but you could ask them for tips,'" O'Donnell says.