Returning to the United States may be back on the table for Rosie O’Donnell, as the comedian says she misses living near her children.<\/p>\n
The 64-year-old moved to Ireland with her youngest child in early 2025, citing the political climate following Donald Trump<\/a>‘s re-election, a desire to provide a safer environment for her non-binary child, and the loss of her Malibu home in a devastating fire.<\/p>\n Now, after her son Blake welcomed a baby boy in March, O’Donnell says she’s reconsidering a move home to be closer to her growing family.<\/p>\n \u201cI sold everything before I left, and so I\u2019m hoping to get a place in New Jersey near my kids so that I could, when I\u2019m home, we can have a home base here as well. You know? So I\u2019m planning on doing that,\u201d she said on the \u00a0Work in Progress<\/a> podcast. <\/p>\n \u201cIt feels good and familiar. It also feels very loud. I feel a little bit more anxiety<\/a>,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes, the days, New York wins. You know? New York is a beast, right? And that\u2019s where I\u2019m staying and where I\u2019m doing the show.\u201d<\/p>\n While she’s looking to spend more time in the U.S., O’Donnell said moving out of the country was the right decision. \u201cI am so much calmer for it,\u201d she reflected. \u201cI can\u2019t tell you the difference that it makes for my mental health and my happiness<\/a> level. Because it\u2019s very, very hard to experience joy when you\u2019re in the thick of the [Jeffrey] Epstein library; when you\u2019re in the thick of that\u00a0young boy who was left\u00a0on the island by friends; that you can\u2019t believe what the Supreme Court is doing, and doing boldly in front of everyone. Is he going to let us have elections? That\u2019s my big question.\u201d<\/p>\n O’Donnell admits that the move \u201creally does depend on what happens politically in the country and if I feel mentally healthy enough to battle those demons.\u201d <\/p>\n She added, \u201cSome days I feel very strong and other days I feel like, \u2018Oh boy, this is a lot.\u2019 You know? [Trump], like, bombards you. He\u2019s always doing something. You can\u2019t even watch the soccer game \u2014 he ruins everything, in my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Jul 18, 2026, where it first appeared in the Entertainment<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Returning to the United States may be back on the table for Rosie O’Donnell, as the comedian says…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-771530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}