Rosie O’Donnell revealed on social media Tuesday that she’s moved from the U.S. to Eire and, thus far, her time there was “fairly great.”
The comic — who famously feuded with Donald Trump — shared a lengthy TikTok video during which she famous that she moved to Eire along with her daughter Dakota on Jan. 15, lower than every week earlier than the beginning of the president’s second time period.
“I miss many issues about life there at dwelling and I’m looking for a house right here on this lovely nation, and when it’s secure for all residents to have equal rights there in America, that’s once we will take into account coming again,” mentioned O’Donnell, who teased the move final week on her now-private Instagram web page.
O’Donnell — who famous within the TikTok video that she’s within the strategy of acquiring Irish citizenship — mentioned folks within the nation have been “so loving,” “so form” and “so welcoming.”
Her transfer comes after she revealed that her beachfront dwelling in Malibu was “gone” whereas a separate, rental dwelling in Santa Monica was “OK” after wildfires tore via the Los Angeles space in January.
The comic mentioned she by no means thought she’d transfer to a different nation however in the end determined that it was greatest for her and her youngster, including that the 2 have been “completely happy” regardless of lacking her different youngsters and her buddies.
With out naming Trump, she additionally weighed in on the nation’s political panorama.
“It’s been heartbreaking to see what’s occurring politically and exhausting for me personally, as properly,” mentioned O’Donnell, who slammed Trump’s Time magazine cover again in December. “The private is political, as everyone knows.”
O’Donnell joins a variety of celebrities who’ve left the U.S. over the previous few months for numerous causes, together with Ellen DeGeneres, Richard Gere and Eva Longoria.
Later within the TikTok video, she inspired her U.S. followers to talk out and “demand that we observe the Structure in our nation.”
“And never a king, not a person and we don’t have cruelty as a part of our governing fashion,” O’Donnell added.
She later continued, “I take into consideration everybody daily and america of America and I hope that we are able to flip issues round. Relying on you, all of you, to do what’s proper and I feel deep down inside, everyone knows what that’s.”
