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Rosie O’Donnell says that convict Lyle Menéndez murders is the first heterosexual man he had loved and trusted.
In an interview with the New York Times, the comedian and former presenter of interview programs opened about his link with the self -admitted murderer, who along with his brother Erik, is currently fulfilling life imprisonment for the 1989 murder of his parents, José and Kitty Menéndez.
The O’Donnell and Menéndez connection began long before they talked.
The actor “Now and then” first expressed his support for the Menéndez brothers during an appearance in 1996 in “Larry King Live”, where he said he believed that the brothers claimed that they were survivors of their father’s sexual abuse and the murders were an act of self -defense.
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Lyle wrote to O’Donnell after the program was issued, thanking him for speaking and saying that he “knew” his accusations resonated with her due to his own personal experience.
O’Donnell, who would not be public with accusations that she and her brothers were bothered by her father until more than two decades later, told The Times that she was not ready to respond to Menéndez at that time.
“At that time, I had not ventured anywhere near this in my family or in my therapy,” he explained.
But in 2022, he was inspired to advocate for the brothers once again after seeing Max’s documentary “Menéndez: Monsters or judging badly.”
After defending them in a video of Tiktok, Menéndez’s then wife, Rebecca Sneed, approached and asked if O’Donnell would be open to talk directly to Lyle Menéndez.
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His first phone call lasted two or three hours, according to O’Donnell, and a friendship formed quickly.
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“He started calling me regularly from the thing of the tablet they have,” O’Donnell said. “I told me about his life, what he has been doing in prison and, for the first time in my life, I felt safe enough to trust and be vulnerable and love a heterosexual man.”
The Menéndez brothers have seen a renewed public sympathy in recent years, particularly after the launch of Ryan Murphy’s true crimes “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story”. They are expected to appear in the Court next week, where a judge will decide if they should be forwarded and eligible for liberation.