Rosie O’Donnell has revealed her friendship with an notorious convicted killer — Lyle Menendez — saying she feels “protected” to be weak with him.

The actress, comic, and former speak present host opened up about their shut bond throughout a current chat with the New York Instances … revealing she and Lyle — who’s serving life in jail with out parole alongside his brother Erik Menendez for the primary diploma homicide of their mother and father — turned buddies in 2022 after his now-estranged spouse reached out to her.

Rosie stated she and Lyle started talking on a “common foundation” through a pill telephone, and their friendship grew naturally.

She recalled … “He would inform me about his life, what he’s been doing in jail and, for the primary time in my life, I felt protected sufficient to belief and be weak and love a straight man.”

They related after Lyle’s ex Rebecca Sneed contacted Rosie following her assist of him and Erik on TikTok, the place she stated she believes they had been survivors of sexual abuse and killed their mother and father in response to the abuse.

Surprisingly sufficient, 2022 is not when Rosie and Lyle’s interactions started. She advised the NYT Lyle had written her a letter of gratitude after she shared her perception he and Erik acted out of self-defense throughout a 1996 “Larry King Stay” look that coincided with their trial.

She additionally famous she was in communication with him again in October.

Rosie spoke to the NYT from her residence in Dublin, the place she moved in response to Donald Trump changing into the forty seventh president of the USA.

A longtime Trump critic, the previous ‘View’ host stated it was “heartbreaking to see what’s occurring politically” in America … and stated she is going to take into account returning “when it’s protected for all residents to have equal rights.”