Piers Morgan & Christine O’Donnell Spar Over Gay Marriage Question During Interview

Piers Morgan is already making light of former Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell walking out on a “Piers Morgan Tonight” interview after the host asked her for her views on gay marriage on Wednesday.

“Do you think Christine O’Donnell is going to put a witch’s curse on me now?” Morgan Tweeted on Wednesday night after O’Donnell walked out of a satellite, pre-recorded interview for his CNN talk show, his Tweet a reference to her 2010 admission she “dabbled” in witchcraft.

In a clip, posted on CNN.com ahead of “Piers Morgan Tonight,” O’Donnell and Morgan seemed to spar over what was appropriate to ask an interview guest after Morgan brought up gay marriage.

“Right now I’m curious about whether you support gay marriage,” he said.

“You’re borderline being a little bit rude,” O’Donnell responded. “I obviously want to talk about the issues that I choose to talk about in the book.”

Morgan went on to ask if she addressed gay marriage in her new book, “Troublemaker,” something O’Donnell said she did, but refused to address in the CNN interview.

“Do you answer that question in the book?” he asked.

“I talk about my religious beliefs, yeah,” O’Donnell said, nodding in the affirmative.

“Do you talk about gay marriage in the book?” he probed further.

“What relevance is that right now?” O’Donnell replied. “Is there a piece of legislation?”

O’Donnell went on to tell Morgan he was being “a little rude.”

“I think I’m being rather charming and respectful,” the “America’s Got Talent” judge chimed in. “I’m just asking you questions based on your own public statements and now, what you’ve written in your own book. It’s hardly rude to ask you that, surely?”

“Well, don’t you think, as a host, if I say, ‘This is what I want to talk about,’ that’s what we should address,” she asked.

“Not really, no,” he said.

At that point, O’Donnell looked off camera and said, “OK, I’m being pulled away,” adding that she “turned down another interview for this.”

“I was supposed to be speaking at the Republican Women’s Club at 6 o’clock and I chose to be a little late for that, not to be… not to endure rude talk show hosts, but to talk to you about my book and the issues I address in my book,” she said. “Have you read the book?”

Morgan claimed he had gotten through the book’s pages and said she did bring up gay marriage in her book, questioning again why O’Donnell wouldn’t address the subject on air.

“It would appear that the interview has just been ended, because I had the audacity to ask questions based on stuff that’s in this book,” Morgan said as O’Donnell left the studio. “It’s a good book, it’s called ‘Troublemaker.’ I think we now know why it’s called ‘Troublemaker.’… Christine O’Donnell, making America great again.”