Rosie O’Donnell informed The New York Instances that she by no means thought President Donald Trump would win once more. She additionally conceded that regardless of now residing in Eire, her Irish citizenship utility had not but been formally authorised.
“I by no means thought he would win once more,” she told the Times. “However I stated, ‘If he does, I’m going to maneuver,’ and my therapist stated, ‘Effectively, let’s make an actual plan.’”
O’Donnell fled to Eire after Trump received the 2024 election and had been feuding with the president since she made remarks about him as a co-host of “The View” in 2006.
She revealed to the Instances that her Irish citizenship had not but been authorised, and she or he was hesitant about talking to a reporter for concern of it impacting the method.
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Rosie O’Donnell revealed in an NYT interview that she by no means thought Trump would win. (Stefanie Keenan/Getty Pictures for ELLE; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
O’Donnell joined Eire’s “Late Late Present” in March, the place she mentioned her current choice to maneuver out of the USA and her longstanding feud with President Donald Trump. She additionally talked about Trump’s remark about her to Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin throughout his go to to the White Home.
“I felt very troubled that they put the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) in that place and didn’t deal with him with the respect {that a} chief of that sort deserves when he’s visiting the White Home. I wrote the taoiseach with just a little word of apology to his electronic mail and received a word again that they’d obtained it and thanked me. However I simply wished him to know the historical past and what occurred and why he appears to be out to get me in methods which might be startling to most,” O’Donnell stated.
Throughout Martin’s go to with Trump on March 12, a reporter requested him, “Why on the earth would you let Rosie O’Donnell transfer to Eire? I believe she goes to decrease your happiness.”
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O’Donnell additionally opened as much as the Instances about her relationship with Lyle Menendez, one of many Menendez brothers, who’re each presently incarcerated in San Diego, the place they’re serving life sentences with out the opportunity of parole after they have been convicted in 1996 of murdering their dad and mom.
“He began calling me frequently from the pill cellphone factor they’ve,” she stated. “He would inform me about his life, what he’s been doing in jail and, for the primary time in my life, I felt secure sufficient to belief and be susceptible and love a straight man.”
Fox Information’ Ashley Hume and Emily Trainham contributed to this report.
