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Rosie O’Donnell weighed in after seeing an online rumor claiming she is joining Dancing with the Stars<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The comedian shut down the rumor, which implied she would be making an “epic return” to the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n O’Donnell moved to Ireland in January of last year with her child, Clay, to avoid President Donald Trump’s second term in office<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Rosie O’Donnell<\/a> has no plans of putting on her dancing shoes.<\/p>\n The comedian, 64, moved to Ireland<\/a> in January 2025, a decision she has openly said was out of a desire to avoid<\/a> President Donald Trump<\/a>. Despite some speculation online, she will not be leaving to compete on Dancing with the Stars<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n 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<\/em> debut and return to the U.S. “in an epic comeback.”<\/p>\n In her own Instagram post<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <\/strong>PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n O’Donnell recently visited the U.S., though, on a low-key trip<\/a>, her first since her move last year. She told Chris Cuomo<\/a> on his radio show, SiriusXM\u2019s Cuomo Mornings<\/em>, that she’d “recently [gone] home for two weeks and I did not really tell anyone. I just went to see my family.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI 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.<\/p>\n A mother of five<\/a>, she also wanted to see her kids. \u201cI wanted to hold my children again, and I hadn\u2019t been home in over a year,” she told Cuomo.<\/p>\n “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.\u201d<\/p>\n The visit didn’t leave her wishing to be back. \u201cI don\u2019t regret leaving at all,\u201d she said. \u201cI think I did what I needed to do to save myself, my child and my sanity.\u201d<\/p>\n Rosie O’Donnell on July 22, 2025Credit: Neil Mockford\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n There was a “scary” energy in the country during her visit, she added. \u201cThere\u2019s a feeling that something is really wrong and no one is doing anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n In July, Trump threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s citizenship<\/a>, claiming that she is a “threat to humanity” and “should remain” in Ireland instead of ever coming back to the U.S.<\/p>\n In response<\/a>, O’Donnell said that Trump’s threat is “why I moved” as she said, \u201cThe president of the USA has always hated the fact that I see him for who he is \u2014 a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the original article on People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n