Transfer over, Tom Cruise.
Rosie O’Donnell revealed convicted killer Lyle Menendez is the primary “straight man” she’s ever “cherished” and “trusted.”
“He began calling me regularly from the pill telephone factor they’ve,” the previous discuss present host instructed the New York Instances in an interview printed Saturday.
“He would inform me about his life, what he’s been doing in jail and, for the primary time in my life, I felt secure sufficient to belief and be weak and love a straight man.”
Lyle, 57, and his brother, Erik Menendez, have been convicted of first diploma homicide after killing their dad and mom, Joe and Kitty Menendez, in 1989.
They have been sentenced to life in jail with out the potential of parole. Nevertheless, they’re at present searching for a resentencing that, if accredited, might make them eligible for parole instantly.
O’Donnell, 63, revealed her relationship with Lyle started in 1996 after an look on “Larry King Dwell.”
On the time, she expressed her perception that the brothers killed their dad and mom as an act of self-defense — they claimed in court docket they have been abused and molested by their dad and mom — and Lyle despatched her a letter thanking her for her assist.
O’Donnell alleged “she and her siblings had been molested by their father,” too, and Lyle sensed “she ‘knew’ from a private place that what he was saying was true.”
“At that time, I had not ventured wherever close to this in my household or in my remedy,” she instructed the Instances, including that she didn’t initially reply to Lyle.
It wasn’t till 2022, when O’Donnell watched a documentary on the case and mentioned it on TikTok that she reconnected with Lyle.
Lyle’s spouse, Rebecca Sneed, reached out to her to “see if she was focused on talking with him,” O’Donnell additional revealed.
Their first telephone dialog lasted three hours, they usually have been shut pen friends ever since. She has additionally visited Lyle in jail.
The “Flinstones” star’s confession comes simply weeks after she confirmed she moved to Eire to flee President Donald Trump and would return “when it’s secure for all residents to have equal rights.”
