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NEW YORK, Sept. 4 / -- Rosie O'Donnell may be the only person in America who blames Oprah Winfrey for Tom Cruise's troubles, reports Senior Writer Marc Peyser in the September 11 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, September 4). "I saw him doing the couch jumping," says O'Donnell in this week's issue. "I wasn't mad at him. I was mad at Oprah. Oprah, couldn't you have said, 'Tommy come here! Don't' jump.'" Rosie says that if Cruise had lost it on her show, she'd have sat him down and retaped the segment. "For me, to love someone is not to get rid of them when they do something you don't think is appropriate," O'Donnell says. "I love him, and love is eternal." She adds that, for the record, she was never actually in love with Cruise. "It never went to sexual," she says. "My Angelina Jolie crush was much more sexual than my Tom Cruise crush ever was."