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Rosie O’Donnell weighed in after seeing an online rumor claiming she is joining Dancing with the Stars
The comedian shut down the rumor, which implied she would be making an “epic return” to the U.S.
O’Donnell moved to Ireland in January of last year with her child, Clay, to avoid President Donald Trump’s second term in office
Rosie O’Donnell has no plans of putting on her dancing shoes.
The comedian, 64, moved to Ireland in January 2025, a decision she has openly said was out of a desire to avoid President Donald Trump. Despite some speculation online, she will not be leaving to compete on Dancing with the Stars.
On Monday, April 13, O’Donnell shared what looked like an AI-generated mock news report declaring that she was going to make her DWTS debut and return to the U.S. “in an epic comeback.”
In her own Instagram post, she wrote that the image “made me laugh” as she shut it down. “Completely untrue but funny,” O’Donnell said. She also joked that the photo “reminds me to never get a perm” as it featured her with curly hair.
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O’Donnell recently visited the U.S., though, on a low-key trip, her first since her move last year. She told Chris Cuomo on his radio show, SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings, that she’d “recently [gone] home for two weeks and I did not really tell anyone. 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,” she said.
A mother of five, she also wanted to see her kids. “I wanted to hold my children again, and I hadn’t been home in over a year,” she told Cuomo.
“I also wanted to make sure that it was safe for me before I brought my daughter this summer, where we plan to spend the summertime off from her schooling here with my family.”
The visit didn’t leave her wishing to be back. “I don’t regret leaving at all,” she said. “I think I did what I needed to do to save myself, my child and my sanity.”
Rosie O’Donnell on July 22, 2025Credit: Neil Mockford/WireImage
There was a “scary” energy in the country during her visit, she added. “There’s a feeling that something is really wrong and no one is doing anything about it.”
In July, Trump threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s citizenship, claiming that she is a “threat to humanity” and “should remain” in Ireland instead of ever coming back to the U.S.
In response, O’Donnell said that Trump’s threat is “why I moved” as she said, “The president of the USA has always hated the fact that I see him for who he is — a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself.”
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