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Rosie O’Donnell has revealed she secretly returned to the United States to test the waters after President Trump threatened to revoke her citizenship following her move to Ireland last year.
The 63-year-old former talk show host announced in March 2025 that she had , saying she felt unsafe under his leadership and concerned for her family’s wellbeing.
The move came amid a long-standing feud with Trump, dating back to her days as a co-host on . In July, the former president publicly threatened to strip O’Donnell of her citizenship.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings on Friday, O’Donnell revealed that she had quietly returned to the U.S. for a short visit.
'I recently went home for two weeks and I did not really tell anyone. I just went to see my family,' she said.
'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.'
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Rosie O’Donnell has revealed she secretly returned to the United States to test the waters after President Trump threatened to revoke her citizenship following her move to Ireland last year; (pictured 20240
The former talk show host announced in March 2025 that she had relocated to Ireland following Donald Trump’s second inauguration; (Trump in February)
She told Cuomo, ‘I wanted to hold my children again.’
The mother of five left the US in January 2025 with her youngest, Clay, while her four older children - Parker, 29, Blake, 25, Chelsea, 27, and Vivienne, 22 - remained in America.
'I recently went home for two weeks and I did not really tell anyone. I just went to see my family,' O'Donnell said, adding, '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'
‘I don’t regret leaving at all,’ O’Donnell said, adding, ‘I think I did what I needed to do to save myself, my child and my sanity'
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‘The energy that I felt while in the United States… it was scary,’ she said. ‘There’s a feeling that something is really wrong and no one is doing anything about it.’
