Rosie O’Donnell admits Lyle Menendez is first ‘straight man’ she can ‘trust’

Rosie O’donnell She is open about the surprising relationship she formed with the convicted killer Lyle Menendez.

Lyle, 57, and his brother Erik Money, 54, are currently in a San Diego prison, where they serve life’s penalties without a conditional discharge after being convicted of the killing of their parents, Jose and Mary Kitty “Menendez, 1989.

During the interview with New York Times Posted on Saturday, O’Donnell, 63, shared details about her friendship with Lyle and how they communicated while he remained behind the bars.

“He started calling me regularly from the tablet,” she said. “I would tell me about my life, what he does in prison and, for the first time in my life, I felt sure enough to believe and be vulnerable and loved straight.”

As he spoke with the New York Times, O’Donnell shared that her relationship with Lyle began during Menendez brothers’ Trial in 1996.

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Lyle and Erik defenders claimed that the brothers killed Jose and Kitty in self -defense after suffered abuse and abuse by their parents.

O’Donnell recalled that she had appeared in the 1996 Larry King Live episode, where she said she believed in the defense of the brothers.

AND Former host of the Talk show Nyt told Lyle sent her a letter after the “Larry King Live” interview. In the letter, Lyle “thanked her for his support and stated that she was believing that she” knew “from the personal place that the truth was what he was saying.”

O’Donnell told Nyt that her personal experience led her to the belief of the Menndez brothers, because “she and her brothers and sisters were abused by their father.”

However, O’Donnell said she never answered Lyle’s letter.

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“At that moment, I didn’t go anywhere near my family or in my therapy,” she told Nyt.

Year later, O’donnell and lyle She connected again after watching the 2022 documentary, which included new evidence that supported the Menndez brothers’ story.

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O’Donnell discussed the case during a video in Tictok where he once again defended her brothers. After that, Lyle’s wife Rebecca Sneed contacted her to “see if she was interested in talking to him.”

Lyle and O’Donnell then had their first phone call, for which the comedian said “lasted two or three hours”, and since then they have been regularly in touch.

O’Donnell admitted that some of her friends “expressed concern” for her unlikely relationship with Lyle.

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Nyt said that “she shrugged” when her friends told her “” ro, he is the killer “and instead went to visit Lyle in prison.

During her visit, Lyle informed her of a program in which he and his closed prisoners help train and place dogs with blind, disabled veterans and children who were diagnosed with autism.

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At Lyle’s proposal, O’Donnell decided to pass the dog through the program of his 12-year-old son Clay, who is autistic. “She spent two weeks every day to prison” before bringing home a mix of Labrador named Kuma, trained by a prisoner who served time for armed robbery.

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“I immediately noticed a difference in Glina,” she told Nyt. “I was shocked when I discovered that all the stories I heard from other mothers of autistic children were true.”

Experience inspiring o’donnell for the movie documentary About the program entitled “Release of Hope: Autism Services Services”, which will make Hulu on 22 April.