Rosie O'Donnell Explains Recent U.S. Visit After Moving to Ireland Because of Trump
Rosie O’Donnell is explaining her visit to the United States.
The 63-year-old comedian and actress moved to Ireland back in January of last year following Donald Trump‘s election victory in 2024.
After a year, she came home recently for “two weeks.”
“I was recently home for two weeks, and I did not really tell anyone,” she said on Cuomo Mornings.
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“I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country. I wanted to feel what it felt like. I wanted to hold my children again. And I hadn’t been home in over a year.”
She currently lives with her 13-year-old child, but her four adult children remain in the Untied States.
“I also wanted to make sure that it was safe for me before I brought my daughter this summer, where we plan to spend the summertime off from her schooling here with my family,” she explained.
“My son is having his first child. So we’re very excited to be home.”
“I was in New York for the last two weeks, and I have to tell you, it feels like a very different country, a very different place to me. Because for a year I haven’t been watching the news. I haven’t been watching American culture television,” Rosie added.
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“I’m in a place where celebrity worship does not exist. I’ve been in a place where there’s more balance to the news, there’s more balance to life. It’s not everyone trying to get more, more, more. It’s a very different culture. And I felt the United States in a completely different way than I ever had before I left.”
“I don’t regret leaving at all,” she added.
“I think I did what I needed to do to save myself, my child, and my sanity. And I’m very happy that I’m not in the midst of it there, because the energy that I felt while I was in the United States was — if I can use the most simple word I can think of — it was scary. There’s a feeling that something is really wrong, and nobody is doing anything about it.” Listen above.