THE TELEGRAPH via Yahoo! News – Rosie O’Donnell has claimed Donald Trump’s first term took a severe toll on her mental health, causing her to eat and drink too much.
She added that she decided to flee the country following his November election win for the sake of “self-preservation”.
“I was very, very depressed. I was overeating. I was overdrinking,” she said, during an appearance on The Chris Cuomo Project podcast.
O’Donnell moved to Ireland in mid-January to preserve her mental health.
The former talk show host previously suggested that she moved to Ireland because the US is not “safe” for her youngest child, Clay, who is non-binary.
Speaking on the podcast, she said political tensions had grown so much in the US that she and her child had been heckled at the shops.
“People in CVS saying to me and my autistic 12-year-old, ‘Hey, Rosie, Trump won. Ha ha.’ One cursed at us,” she said.
“To be a good parent to this 12-year-old child…I’ve got to be around for 20 more years, I need to take care of myself,” she said …
