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Rosie O’Donnell is the latest celebrity to reveal that she too has moved out of the U.S. Rosie, who has five children, Parker, 29, Chelsea, 27, Blake, 25, Vivienne, 22, and Clay, 12, announced earlier this week that in mid-January, she and Clay had moved to Ireland. You may recall that Rosie and Donald Trump have been feuding since she read him for filth on The View in 2006, calling him a “snake-oil salesman on Little House On The Prairie.” LMAO she is a founding member of The Resistance. Anyway, in a TikTok video, Rosie said people there were “so kind” and that she’d consider coming back to the U.S. when it’s “safe” to do so.
[Rosie O’Donnell] posted a video on TikTok on Tuesday in which she shared that she moved to Ireland with her child Clay in mid-January, saying, “Although I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that’s what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child.”
O’Donnell explained that she moved to Ireland on January 15, and is “in the process” of getting her Irish citizenship as she has Irish grandparents.
“It’s been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving and so kind, so welcoming. And I’m very grateful,” she also said.
“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,” O’Donnell added. “And when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”
The “League of Their Own” star continued, “It’s been heartbreaking to see what’s happening politically and hard for me personally as well. The personal is political, as we all know.”
Later on in the video, O’Donnell explained her reasoning for sharing the news of her move now.
“I just felt like we needed to take care of ourselves and make some hard decisions and follow through,” she said. “And now as we’re getting settled, I was ready to post this and to tell everybody what’s been going on.”
O’Donnell is not the only celebrity to move out of the US in recent months. Personalities including Eva Longoria, Ellen DeGeneres, Richard Gere and others have also moved abroad.
I’m not surprised to hear that Rosie and Clay have moved to Ireland. Clay is non-binary and Rosie has been vocal about their autism in the past. I understand Rosie trying to keep them safe from this administration. I’m possibly going to Ireland later this year, so it’s lovely to hear how loving, welcoming, and kind people are there. I’m also not surprised that she picked Ireland because of her heritage. That makes a ton of sense to me, especially because she can get dual-citizenship. I’m of Italian heritage, but my grandma was born a few months after her parents immigrated to America, so I just miss out on dual-citizenship eligibility via descendancy. My aunt started the process, so I’ve been pushing both of my parents to do it too.
Last month, I sold something on Facebook Marketplace and the gentleman who picked it up said that he and his husband were moving to Spain as a result of the election. I remembered that Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi moved to the Cotswolds and it got me thinking about how much things have changed. For decades, we’ve had famous people on both sides of the aisle dramatically threaten to move out of the country if their candidate didn’t win. Nothing really ever came of that and it kinda became a joke as a result. This time, though, people – celebrities and normies – are actually leaving.