Posted on 04/13/2025 1:21:10 AM PDT by Libloather
Rosie O’Donnell is looking back at life now, and then.
The comedian, 63, recently detailed having a friendship with Lyle Menendez, 57, who along with his brother Erik Menendez, 54, was convicted of the 1989 murders of their parents Kitty and Jose Menendez.
“He started calling me on a regular basis from the tablet phone thing they have,” O’Donnell told The New York Times on Saturday. “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.”
The brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1994. While discussing the crime on “Larry King Live” in 1996, the former talk show host said she believed Lyle and Erik’s claims of childhood abuse and molestation by their father and that killing their parents was an act of self-defense.
After her appearance, O’Donnell received a letter from Lyle that “thanked her for her support and stated his belief that she ‘knew’ from a personal place that what he was saying was true.”
The actress herself had experience with the subject, alleging to the outlet that “she and her siblings had been molested by their father.”
“At that point, I had not ventured anywhere near this in my family or in my therapy,” O’Donnell continued before admitting she did not write Lyle back at first.
It wasn’t until 2022 when the siblings’ case gained a new life on TikTok following a documentary, that the comic reached back out. O’Donnell explained that she heard from the prisoner’s wife, Rebecca Sneed, who contacted her to “see if she was interested in speaking with him.”
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This is insane. I truly don’t understand what’s in the psyche of these people. How do you accept cold-blooded violence as acceptable, much less admirable? I can’t even grasp the edges of this mentality. And think it would scare me witless if I could.
Rosie wants a shotgun wedding?
God doesn’t give up completely on murderers or even Rosie.
The bad things people do aren’t the totality of their being.
Matthew 25 in the bible seems to say that it is good to visit those in prison.
I would want these two to stay in prison, to protect others in society, to punish for what they did, and serve as an example to deter others contemplating murder.
But I don’t think it’s so bad to exchange letters or even become some level of “friend”.
Crazy is, as crazy does
In 63 years, the only man she could trust is a convicted parent murderer????
Sweetheart, it isn’t the men that is the problem, it is YOU.
She and Tim Walz should make a club: Good friends of killers!
Well, she knows where he’ll be Saturday nights....
He’s begging to stay in now.
Ping
Time out. These two have had a conjugal visit?
She’s a very very lonely person. Trump is one of many demons whom she blames.
It’s interesting, they’re all angry, hatful women. All of them. The View ladies, the CNN commentators, I would gather none of them have really satisfying relationships with anyone, even the kids in their family.
You would think after becoming grandparents it would change.
I’m not at all surprised at Bill Maher’s surprise with Trump the person at dinner.
After all, all these people adored Trump, all of them.
I predict in time, they’ll all come back into the fold.
OHMIGAWD. I'm struggling to come up with words to define O'Donnell's lunacy and delusion and derangement.
Governor, we can ALWAYS count on you ! God bless you !
He’s using you, Rosie, in the hopes of getting out of prison. Don’t believe anything he says.
she’s right up his alley- Rich- She’s too naive apparently to realize that the boys killed their parents FOR MONEY- then lied about why!
To say she’s bat(feces) crazy is offensive to bat feces.
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Is Rozi still a rep for Snap On Tools?
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