Rosie O'Donnell: Trump made me overeat
Rosie O'Donnell has claimed Donald Trump made her overeat.
The actress and comedian said that living in the US during Mr Trump's first term took a severe toll on her mental health, causing her to eat and drink too much.
She added that she decided to flee the country following his November election win for the sake of 'self-preservation'.
'I was very, very depressed. I was overeating. I was overdrinking,' she said, during an appearance on The Chris Cuomo Project podcast.
'It hurt my heart that America believed the lies about him. And then it broke my heart to be in a business that creates and sells those lies for profit.'
Around the time of Kamala Harris's election defeat a host of celebrities left, or threatened to leave, the country because of Mr Trump.
O'Donnell also moved to Ireland in mid-January to preserve her mental health.
'I really felt this was self-preservation,' she said. 'When I got here, I noticed right away there was a different culture about celebrity. They're not lauded in Ireland. They're not thought of as better than anyone else.'
The former talk show host previously suggested that she moved to Ireland because the US is not 'safe' for her youngest child, Clay, who is non-binary.
Speaking on the podcast, she said political tensions had grown so much in the US that she and her child had been heckled at the shops.
'People in CVS saying to me and my autistic 12-year-old, 'Hey, Rosie, Trump won. Ha ha.' One cursed at us,' she said.
O'Donnell has had a long-running feud with Mr Trump, who has called her a 'pig' and a 'loser', while she has branded him 'mentally unstable'.
By contrast, the former The View host said that moving to Ireland has given her the sense of calm she needed.
'Coming home here felt like coming home,' she said, adding that her daughter had told her: 'Mommy, you can be a normal person here.'
'I find myself feeling safe,' she said. 'There's no Maga support here.'
O'Donnell has previously said that she is planning to claim Irish citizenship, as she has Irish grandparents.
'To be a good parent to this 12-year-old child...I've got to be around for 20 more years, I need to take care of myself,' she said.
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