Rosie ODonnell quietly slips back into US after defecting to Ireland after Trumps re-election

After a self-imposed political exile to Ireland after President Donald Trump’s re-election, Rosie O’Donnell quietly returned to the United States.During an interview with Chris Cuomo on his new show, “SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings,” the 63-year-old actress revealed she recently returned to the country to visit her family.The actress moved to Ireland with her teenage daughter in January 2025, just prior to President Trump’s second inauguration.“I was recently home for two weeks, and I did not really tell anyone,” she told Cuomo.

“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 then shared that she “wanted to make sure that it was safe” for her and her daughter to come back over the summer so that they could be with family during her break from school.When speaking to Cuomo, she went on to discuss how America “feels like a very different country” to her than when she lived here because she hasn’t “been watching the news” or keeping up with “American culture television” while living in Ireland.“I’ve been in a place where celebrity worship does not exist,” she explained.“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.”O’Donnell claimed she doesn’t “regret leaving at all” and feels she 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 in the United States was — if I could use the most simple word I can think of — it was scary,” she added.

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