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Sunday World
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Rosie O'Donnell hilariously reveals how a woman took her in after getting lost in Dublin
SHOCK SAVIOUR | 'You know Rosie, I wouldn't open the door unless you were on The Late Late Show.' The Rosie O'Donnell Show star said the house owner didn't know her identity, but had recognised her from a recent appearance on The Late Late Show. Rosie was on her way to a podcast interview about her childhood trauma after the tragic loss of her mum when a taxi driver dropped her at the wrong address. When she knocked on the door, a lady in a bathrobe, just out of the shower, answered it. 'She said, 'You look familiar, where do I know you from?'' Rosie reveals. ''I'm an American actress.' 'You were on The Late Late Show, you've got an autistic child.' I said, 'Yes I was.' 'What's your name?' 'Rosie.' 'I'm Jennifer, come on in.'' Rosie with Venetia Quick Jennifer connected Rosie to her wifi and helped her contact radio presenter and podcaster Venetia Quick of The Grief Pod. Before leaving, Rosie advised Jennifer: ''Listen, I just want you to know you shouldn't do this again [let a stranger into her home]. In New York nobody would ever do this. 'She laughed, 'You know Rosie, I wouldn't open the door unless you were on The Late Late Show.' The US celebrity with Donegal ancestry who moved to Ireland after Donald Trump's election to a second term as president, later spoke with Venetia Quick about her Irish connections – and the untimely death of her mother when she was just 11. Rosie says: 'Mum died in 1973… she died on St Patrick's Day the 17th of March and was buried on my birthday, the 21st. 'She was on the parish council at Christ the King, our local Catholic church. A lot of people knew her and it was such a tragic story… a woman with five children at the age of 39 gets diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer and when they opened her up they said there is nothing they can do. 'And so she died shortly thereafter. She went to the hospital and we would go to visit her there and it felt very scary and weird. 'She came home for a while, but right before she died she went back to the hospital and she had to have her friends help her to the car. I remember that and I remember thinking something bad is going to happen. 'And then I saw my dad in the playroom looking out the window and I just said, 'Is Mommy going to die?' And he turned so I couldn't look at any part of his face and put his nose to the corner of the room and said, 'We hope not, honey, we hope not.' 'The next thing everybody was at our house on the 17th, St Patrick's Day, and I remember waking up that morning and thinking, 'well nothing bad can happen today because today's lucky day for the Irish and we are 100 per cent Irish.'' However, Rosie soon learned the devastating news that her beloved mother had died. 'The days that followed after Mother's death were horrifying,' she says. Read more 'I felt like I would wake up at any moment and it was not going to be true. My little brother, Timmy, is five years younger than me and was born the day before me so it was his birthday as well. We both got a lot of gifts and it just felt so wrong. 'My little brother said, 'You have to be the mommy now.' I was the oldest girl, I got to be the mother, and that's what I ended up doing [in her adult life]… I adopted five children and had two foster kids.' Rosie revealed that her father's family were from Donegal, Tyrone and Belfast. Her grandfather was Irish-born but her father was born in America. 'After my mother died he took us back to Donegal and Tyrone and Belfast, where his family was raised,' she says. 'I still have cousins here in Belfast and in Ardglass [Co Down]. And we've been up there a bunch of times to stay with them. It's so lovely having family here and I remember we first met them in 1973, that summer right after my mother died.' Rosie on the Late Late with Patrick Kielty News in 90 seconds - 10th May 2025 Rosie, who has been a staunch critic of Donald Trump for decades, moved to Dublin in January. She says: 'When he got the nomination I said to my therapist, 'I can't survive another four years with him, I know I can't.' She said, 'What's the plan?' And I said I would move to Ireland, it's the only country I would move to, I have family there that we have kept in touch with and I know that I can get citizenship because of my grandparents.' And she said, 'Let's start to make that plan.' Rosie moved here with her 12-year-old non-binary child, Clay, because of the Trump administration's policies. 'I spoke to Clay and said that for trans people and trans kids and gay people it's [America] is not a safe place to be. And for women, they've taken away our rights that I remember fighting for in the early '70s.' Although she misses her family who still live in the US, O'Donnell says she has no regrets about leaving America. 'Clay is very happy here,' she says. 'Clay has autism and supports are being taken away in America.' Although Rosie's friends were surprised she left America for Ireland, she points out that she quit her TV show at the height of its success. 'I made crazy, insane money, the kind of money if you made it for one year you'd never have to work again… and I did it for six years,' she adds.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rosie O'Donnell moved to Ireland before Trump's inauguration, may return when 'all citizens have equal rights'
Rosie O'Donnell has left the United States for greener pastures. The famed comedian and former talk show host hinted last week that she had moved abroad with her 12-year-old, Clay. O'Donnell explained everything in a nine-minute video posted to her TikTok today, which began, "I'm here in Ireland, and it's beautiful, and warm... Moved here January 15, and it's been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving, so kind, and so welcoming, and I'm very grateful." Though O'Donnell admitted she "was never someone who thought I would move to another country," she decided to relocate five days before Donald Trump's second inauguration as president because "its been heartbreaking to see whats happening politically, and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know." Related: Rosie O'Donnell celebrates Donald Trump conviction after longtime feud: 'Criminal cult' O'Donnell says she is pursuing Irish citizenship, as she has Irish grandparents. Though she's happy and says "Clay's happy" she also admits, "I miss my other kids, I miss my friends, I miss many things about life there at home. And I'm trying to find a home here in this beautiful country. When it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that's when we will consider coming back." Trump and O'Donnell have a decades-long acrimonious relationship, stretching back to O'Donnell's brief time as a cohost of The View in the mid-2000s. The pair regularly fired vicious posts back and forth on the social media site formerly known as Twitter, with O'Donnell claiming as recently as 2020 that Trump "won't let it die." "I just talked about him not being a self-made man, having money from his father, and saying he went bankrupt — and it made him go berserk," she said. "He went on a tirade for a good decade that hasn't ended today." O'Donnell continues to criticize Trump as well, but she's left the personal attacks (mostly) to the side, focusing on substantive policy critique amid his rise to the top of the American political food chain. She celebrated Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts last May, thanking Trump's former lawyer who testified against him, Michael Cohen, for "turning away from the criminal cult - for taking responsibility for ur actions - for telling the truth.""I encourage everyone to stand up to use their voice to protest, to demand that we follow the constitution in our country, and not a king, not a man, and we don't have cruelty as part of our governing style," O'Donnell continued on TikTok. The former Rosie O'Donnell Show host also suggested she may soon abandon TikTok for the self-publishing platform Substack and revealed her new photography hobby has her going through "rolls and rolls a day." Related: The View stars celebrate living 'rent-free' in Donald Trump's head after he slams show, calls for Rosie O'Donnell return Trump and his new administration have been widely criticized for, among other things, ordering a freeze on all new civil rights cases from the Justice Department, introducing a raft of policy changes designed to curtail LGBTQ+ rights, and attempting to deport a green card holder for exercising his constitutional right to public assembly. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
