Rosie Odonil on Ireland, Trump and her new documentary for Holo

“It is not the chilo,” said Rosie Odonil, via a video call, sitting on the gray love seat in Hodi, and a pair of elegant brown glasses.

In New York, it was Thursday morning. In Dublin, where the actress, comedy actress and host of previous talk shows remained since mid -January, the afternoon light has been broadcast through a close window. The chilo came with the rent.

Many celebrities spoke during the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections about moving abroad if Donald C wins. Trump – among them, Barbara Streisand, Sher, and Amy Shomer.

Mrs. Odonel has already gone through her.

“I was never thinking that he would win again,” she said of President Trump, as she made the TV clips that I saw last year in Kamala Harris, then the vice president, which appeared in the upper squares in Pennsylvania and Michigan. “But I said,” If he does so, I will move, “and the therapist said,” Well, let’s put a real plan. “

It happens that Mrs. Odonel has reservations to discuss all this with a reporter.

She has not approved her request to obtain Irish citizenship, and she is concerned about doing anything to enhance this at risk. Technically, she and her youngest child, Clay, with autism and non -bilateral, are still visiting the country.

However, Mrs. Odonil has a documentary that wants to promote – “Unleashing Hope: The Power of Service for Autism”, the story of a program in which the prisoners are training service dogs in prison, and then dogs are placed with families like their salary.

Mrs. Odonil appeared in “The Late Late Show”, equivalent to “The Tonight Show”, a few weeks ago. She talked about her about her new life in the country, and she shed some insults to Mr. Trump and gave each indication that she will remain there in the foreseeable future.

But a lot of her focus at the present time on the documentary, which was partially inspired by all things, is unlikely with Lille Mindez, the convicted killer.

Find good in people

Mrs. Odonel, of course, has been decreasing with Mr. Trump since 2006, when she joined “The View”, a telephone created by anchor Barbara Walters.

In the show, in response to what she felt was that Mr. Trump received excessive positive coverage of his treatment of the controversy that included the Miss USA contestant, Mrs. Odonel mocked Mr. Trump, turned her hair on her face and presented a personality impersonation while questioning his role as an ethical arbitrator and a successful businessman.

Mr. Trump threatened to prosecute a “view” and the lady and Tars personally. The lady got the phone with him to soften matters. Soon after, Mr. Trump was appearing throughout the cable news that calls Mrs. Odonil “Waku” and “Fat”, and said that Mrs. Walsers personally told him that she regretted the employment of Mrs. Odonil.

The following year, despite the high classifications, Mrs. Odonel left the show. But her hostility with Mr. Trump has never ended. She became a key player and a stomach in the Tabloids supermarket, which was always suspected, but was unable to prove, was the work of Mr. Trump and Michael Cohen, his former and proven lawyer who went to prison after he admitted that he was guilty of the campaign’s financing violations, tax fraud and bank fraud.

While he was imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Facility in Outfield, New York, Mr. Cohen received what he said in an interview on Friday was a message from Mrs. Odonil. He said: “It was sad and mercy. I really thought I was feeling pathetic,” he said. Then she visited Mr. Cohen in prison He was in contact with him in the days before Mr. Trump’s conviction of 34 charges of falsifying business records.

It may seem to be a state of policy that creates a strange edition, but it was a typical behavior of Mrs. Odonel, who usually has the goodness of good people in the controversial people.

She includes friends of her salary Lindy EnglandThe former US Army reserve soldier who was tried to treat the detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Mrs. Odonil contacted Mrs. England during her 2005 trial, believing that she turned into a scapegoat for the injustice of the Iraq war.

There Reality WinnerThe former military contractor, who admitted to be guilty of transferring the felony of national defense information after leaking confidential documents on Russian intervention in the 2016 elections to Intercept, which is a non -profit news site. During the trial, Mrs. Odonel contacted the mother of Mrs. Winner and Billy Winner Davis, after which she got the winning lady in the podcast.

But there is no more surprising friendship with Mrs. Odonel than that with the night with Lille Mindez, who was convicted with his brother, Eric, with first -class death and was sentenced to life imprisonment without being conditional on the slaughter of their fathers in 1989, Jose and Kitie Mainndes.

While the brothers were in trial in 1996, Mrs. Odonel interviewed “Larry King Life” she said that she believed that the brothers had been harassed as children and that killings were, in some way, the act of self -defense.

Soon after, I received a message from Liel Mendes.

In that, he thanked her for her support and mentioned his belief that she “knew” from a personal place that what he was saying was true. Mrs. Odonil did: She and her brothers were harassed by their father.

But she did not reach him after that.

“At this stage, I did not venture anywhere near this in my family or in my treatment,” she said last week.

In 2022, after watching a documentary on the Mindez brothers, Mrs. Odonel discussed their case in Tikhak, she repeated her belief that they were survivable of sexual assault who killed their parents from being shocked and desperate.

Shortly after, she said, Rabika Senide, the wife of Liel Mindez, to find out if she was interested in talking to him.

Mrs. Odonil said that their first conversation lasted two or three hours.

She said, “Then he started calling me on a regular basis from the tablet phone they have,” she said. “He would have told me about his life, and what he was doing in prison, and for the first time in my life, I felt safe enough to confidence and be at risk and love a straight man.”

Some of her friends expressed their concern. She said, “They were like,” he is a killer. “

She ignored, then she went to visit him in prison, where she saw dozens of prisoners with Labrador, who were silently stationed at their feet.

Mrs. Odonil asked Mr. Mindez how this could be legally and told her about a program they had to train and put dogs with blind, blind warriors and children with autism. Mrs. Odonil suggested that a dog be obtained through the program.

Mrs. Odonil said she felt uncomfortable at first. Clay is a very oral child and Mrs. Odonel did not want to be aware of her famous situation, to jump in front of a person who cannot work without a high -training service dog. But Mr. Mindez told her not to worry: dogs were distributed according to the need.

A year later, it was approved for a dog.

Mrs. Odonel spent two weeks to move daily to prison, where she was identical to Kuma, a black mixture of Labrador who was trained for a year Carlos AguerA prisoner who takes time to steal armed. (Although the dog ends mainly with the child with autism, extensive training occurs between the dog and adult.)

Kuma immediately associated with clay when she returned home. “I noticed the difference in clay immediately,” she said. “I was shocked when I discovered that all the stories I heard from other mothers of autism were correct.”

So, Mrs. Odonil decided to shoot a short documentary on the program. As a result, it will be released by Hillary Este McLeglin and Tirins Nonan-Festival, warriors in her dialogue program in the late 1990s in Holo on April 22.

Adapting to a new life

During the filming of the documentary, Mrs. Odonil read Project 2025It is a document established by the Heritage Foundation, which set a right -wing agenda for the potential term Trump’s second term. I thought that Mr. Trump said that he would be a dictator on the first day, and did not believe him when he said that the 2025 project reflects anything other than a specific plan for what he would do as president.

She said: “The global tragic events have eliminated emotionally out.” “I think this stems from watching the Vietnam War on TV screens as a small child during dinner and an unbearable graphic horror.”

Trump’s first term was weakened.

She said, “I was incredibly heavy, I was drinking a lot.” “But there were handrails.”

In the last weeks of the campaign, it has prepared. Just in case.

She said, “My passport has been renewed, and Clay’s passport was renewed.” “My brother has his passport. All my cousins ​​have their passports. But I was never a traveler.”

So, she felt a strange move to Ireland, although she was surprised by the pleasure of her admiration.

She said: “I see repercussions for myself in this country everywhere I look at it, and the reflections of my family and my Irish childhood are very.” “We are 100 percent Irish. Being an Irish Catholic was a very large part of my identity, and returning here feels that it returns home in a difficult way to explain or understand, even for me.”

She said that people are unusually friendly. When they approach them in public places, they do this in a way that feels “by 1000 percent different from the United States.”

However, there was an uncomfortable moment when I saw Michelle Martin, Prime Minister of Ireland, Mr. Trump met in the Oval Office During a televised appearance.

There, Brian Glenn, a correspondent of the real right -wing news port, and the friend of the actor Margori Taylor Green, the Republican in Georgia, asked Mr. Martin about the reason he allowed Mrs. Odonel to move there when all that could be “brought misery” to the country.

Mr. Martin seems to tell his chair. But he was able to avoid the question because Mr. Trump jumped to say what was the good question that was and went to insult Mrs. Odonel himself.

After that, Mrs. Odonil sent to Mr. Martin a speech saying how embarrassment was to become the subject of a conversation during what should have been a serious meeting. He did not want.

It was another chapter in a conflict with Mr. Trump, who had been going for nearly 20 years. But given the ability of Mrs. Odonil to formulate relationships with various essays, criminals and other famous people, it seemed justice to ask: Can you see any good in that?

“Nothing,” she said.