Rosie O’Donnell
Lyle Menendez is a buddy I Can belief!!!
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Rosie O’Donnell has revealed her friendship with an notorious convicted killer — Lyle Menendez — saying she feels “safe” to be susceptible with him.
The actress, comic, and former discuss present host opened up about their shut bond throughout a latest chat with the New York Occasions … revealing she and Lyle — who’s serving life in jail with out parole alongside his brother Erik Menendez for the primary diploma homicide of their mother and father — turned buddies in 2022 after his now-estranged spouse reached out to her.
Rosie mentioned she and Lyle started talking on a “regular basis” by way of a pill telephone, and their friendship grew naturally.
She recalled … “He would tell me about his life, what he’s been doing in prison and, for the first time in my life, I felt safe enough to trust and be vulnerable and love a straight man.”
They related after Lyle’s ex Rebecca Sneed contacted Rosie following her help of him and Erik on TikTok, the place she mentioned she believes they have been survivors of sexual abuse and killed their mother and father in response to the abuse.
Surprisingly sufficient, 2022 is not when Rosie and Lyle’s interactions started. She advised the NYT Lyle had written her a letter of gratitude after she shared her perception he and Erik acted out of self-defense throughout a 1996 “Larry King Live” look that coincided with their trial.
She additionally famous she was in communication with him again in October.
Rosie spoke to the NYT from her residence in Dublin, the place she moved in response to Donald Trump changing into the forty seventh president of the USA.
A longtime Trump critic, the previous ‘View’ host mentioned it was “heartbreaking to see what’s happening politically” in America … and mentioned she is going to think about returning “when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights.”
As for Lyle, he is at the moment ready for a resentencing to see if he and Erik could stay life outdoors of bars as soon as extra.
