News | Entertainment
26 Apr 2025 4:32
NZCity News
NZCity CalculatorReturn to NZCity

  • Start Page
  • Personalise
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • Finance
  • Shopping
  • Jobs
  • Horoscopes
  • Lotto Results
  • Photo Gallery
  • Site Gallery
  • TVNow
  • Dating
  • SearchNZ
  • NZSearch
  • Crime.co.nz
  • RugbyLeague
  • Make Home
  • About NZCity
  • Contact NZCity
  • Your Privacy
  • Advertising
  • Login
  • Join for Free

  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Rosie O'Donnell found moving to Ireland felt like "coming home"

    The 62-year-old comedienne revealed last month that she and her youngest child Clay, 12, had left the US earlier this way after Donald Trump was re-elected as president and she has settled in much more easily than she had expected


    She told the New York Times newspaper: "I see reflections of myself in this country everywhere I look, and reflections of my family and my very Irish childhood.

    "We're 100 percent Irish. Being Irish Catholic was a very big part of my identity, and coming back here does feel like coming home in a way that's hard to explain or understand, even for me."

    And Rosie has found people to be unusually friendly, so when they approach her in public, they do so in a way that seems "1,000 percent different than in the United States."

    The 'A League of Their Own' actress admitted Trump's first presidency took a huge toll on her.

    She said: "World tragic events have always wiped me out emotionally. I believe it stemmed from watching the Vietnam War on television as a little kid during dinner and seeing unbearably graphic horror on the news.

    "I was unbelievably heavy, I was drinking too much. But there were guardrails."

    And so when it seemed increasingly likely the former 'Apprentice' star would be elected for a second term, she began making plans to move.

    She said: "I never thought he would win again. But I said, 'If he does, I'm going to move,' and my therapist said, 'Well, let's make a real plan.'...

    "I got my passport renewed, I got Clay's passport renewed. My brother has his passport. All my cousins have their passports. But I was never a traveller."

    Rosie previously claimed Trump had had "it out for her" for 20 years.

    Appearing on Ireland's 'Late Late Show', she said: "[Trump] has it out for me and has for 20 years, when I told the truth about him on a program called 'The View'.

    "I mentioned his bankruptcies and I mentioned all of the sexual assault charges and I mentioned that he was not, in fact, the businessman that everyone thinks he is because of the show, 'The Apprentice', where they sold a bunch of lies to America for over 10 years and half of America believed it.

    "And so he was very angry to say the least, and he hasn't let it go. And he sort of uses me as a punchline whenever he feels the need."

    Despite their long-running feud, Rosie - who is also the adoptive mother of Parker, 29, Chelsea, 27, Blake, 25, and 22-year-old Vivienne - admitted she is still "not used to" Trump calling her out publicly.

    She said: "He's been doing it for two decades and I'm still not used to it every time he does."

    © 2025 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

     Other Entertainment News
     25 Apr: Addison Rae's TikTok success has given her the opportunity to "explore [her] deep desires"
     25 Apr: Robert Irwin is "over the moon" that his "dream" of being on 'Dancing with the Stars' has become a "reality"
     25 Apr: Susan Olsen had "black eyes" and a "swollen" face after being "hurt very badly" when shooting 'The Brady Bunch'
     25 Apr: Sir Rod Stewart's model railway will become a "museum piece" and live on after he dies, his wife Lady Penny Lancaster-Stewart has predicted
     25 Apr: Jelly Roll has been recommended for a pardon for his past crimes
     25 Apr: Andrew Garfield broke down in tears as he honoured his family members who are believed to have perished in the Holocaust
     25 Apr: Jennifer Aniston has been undergoing hypnosis in a bid to cure her "extreme fear of flying"
     Top Stories

    RUGBY RUGBY
    The Blues will attempt to do what no team has accomplished this Super Rugby Pacifc season so far tonight ... beat an Australian side on Aussie soil More...


    BUSINESS BUSINESS
    Monash IVF responds to ASX after baby bungle share price drop More...



     Today's News

    International:
    From major cities to regional towns and suburban centres in between, Australians have gathered to commemorate their veterans on Anzac Day 21:57

    Entertainment:
    Addison Rae's TikTok success has given her the opportunity to "explore [her] deep desires" 21:48

    Entertainment:
    Robert Irwin is "over the moon" that his "dream" of being on 'Dancing with the Stars' has become a "reality" 21:18

    Rugby:
    The Blues will attempt to do what no team has accomplished this Super Rugby Pacifc season so far tonight ... beat an Australian side on Aussie soil 21:17

    Entertainment:
    Susan Olsen had "black eyes" and a "swollen" face after being "hurt very badly" when shooting 'The Brady Bunch' 20:48

    Entertainment:
    Sir Rod Stewart's model railway will become a "museum piece" and live on after he dies, his wife Lady Penny Lancaster-Stewart has predicted 20:18

    Health & Safety:
    A range of imported frozen anchovies is being recalled because of traces of a marine biotoxin 20:17

    Entertainment:
    Jelly Roll has been recommended for a pardon for his past crimes 19:48

    Entertainment:
    Andrew Garfield broke down in tears as he honoured his family members who are believed to have perished in the Holocaust 19:18

    Motoring:
    The Franklin Bulls have consolidated their hold on a top-three spot in the National Basketball League, with an 88 to 80 road win over the Hawkes Bay Hawks in Napier 18:57


     News Search






    Power Search


    © 2025 New Zealand City Ltd