Rosie O’Donnell has officially left the United States and moved across the pond with her youngest child, Dakota.
“I’m here in Ireland, and it’s beautiful and warm — not physically, it’s actually quite cold,” the actress and comedian, 62, shared in Tuesday, March 11, TikTok upload, noting she moved days before Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second presidential term earlier this year. “[I] moved here on January 15, and it’s been pretty wonderful, I have to say.”
O’Donnell went on to gush that the people in Ireland have been “so loving and so kind” since she established her new home base. “I’m very grateful,” she stated. “[I’m] in the process of getting my Irish citizenship, as I have Irish grandparents. And that’s what’s going on, and that’s where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing. And although I was never someone who thought I would move to another country, that’s what I decided would be the best for myself and my 12-year-old child. And here we are.”
O’Donnell adopted Dakota (whose nickname is Clay) in 2013 with her late ex-wife Michelle Rounds, to whom she was married from 2012 to 2015. Rosie adopted her four eldest children — Parker, 29, Chelsea, 27, Blake, 25, and Vivienne, 22 — with her first wife, Kelli Carpenter.
“I’m happy. Clay is happy. I miss my other kids. I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home, and I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country,” the expat said in the TikTok clip. “And when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America, that’s when we will consider coming back.”
In addition to moving to Ireland with Dakota, O’Donnell also brought along her dog, Kuma. “Kuma is with us and is doing great and loves, loves being able to be outside and take walks on the cliffs overlooking the Irish sea,” she gushed. “Kuma is in heaven.”
O’Donnell noted that she’s been busy “traveling around Ireland” and has met a “bunch of people” along the way. “Everyone’s been friendly,” she told fans. “I have a wonderful friend named Tom who’s taken me under his wing and showed me around Dublin, and I’m so grateful, really grateful.”
The announcement about O’Donnell’s Ireland move comes less than one month after she paid tribute to her late Harriet the Spy costar Michelle Trachtenberg, who died at age 39 last month. “Heartbreaking,” she said in a February 26 statement to Us Weekly. “I loved her very much. She struggled the last few years. I wish I could have helped.”
O’Donnell played the nanny of Trachtenberg’s titular sixth-grade sleuth in 1996’s Harriet the Spy, which followed Harriet as she exacts revenge on the classmates who exposed her notebook full of her secret observations.
Police sources confirmed to Us last month that Trachtenberg’s cause of death was “not yet apparent” after she was found in her New York City apartment by her mother, Lana, though the incident was not believed to be suspicious. The actress reportedly had a liver transplant not long before her death, with a source close to Trachtenberg exclusively telling Us that she had been sick “for a long while” and suffered from “back issues and then bone problems.”
The city medical examiner’s office told the New York Post on February 27 that Trachtenberg’s cause of death had been listed as “undetermined” after her family objected to an autopsy.
