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Rosie O’Donnell extremely grateful for the support she received Lyle Menéndez After her 12 year old child, Clay, was diagnosed with autism.
“It has helped me a lot. Wouldn’t we have (My child’s service)”O’Donnell remembered when talking alone Weekly US For her special Hulu documentary Hope of Release: Power of Service Dogs for Children with Autism. “While I was really trying to decide if it was very moral for me to apply (for a service dog) he would say, ‘I’ve been talking to you for two years. I hear a clay every night.’ Because we shared a bed at the time and they would talk on the phone as well.
O’Donnell credited Menéndez for his meaningful advice, adding, “He said, ‘If they don’t think the dog is right for you or clay, they won’t accept you.’ So I listened to it and I did it. “Then all the healing that has happened to my child, which is really intense.”
After O’Donnell’s child, who was diagnosed in 2016, was paired with a service of Guiding America’s dogsThere was an immediate improvement.
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“Before we got the dog, there was talk at school about whether or not they could go next year because there were some behavioral issues. That year we had the dog in February and by the end of the year, they were voted as the better student,” he shared. “It was completely free. If you have an autistic child under 12, you have to apply because it will help your child and will help your family.”
O’Donnell and Clay’s journey is being addressed at Hulu’s Hope of release currently streaming. In the midst of Autism Awareness Month, it was an honor for O’Donnell to use its platform to shed light for sale Matching children diagnosed with autism with therapy dogs.
“It has been a difficult but beautiful journey,” O’Donnell, which Recently relocated to Irelandtell Us Remembering her reaction immediately when clay was diagnosed. “I knew very much. I was working with Autism Speaks. I had seen a lot, many documentaries and even produced one called Mother’s Courage. There was familiarity there and there was something that felt familiar to me.”
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O’Donnell called the experience of Bring you into the life of Clay “Very emotional,” saying, “you met other families in the same situation. That’s why I wanted to make the documentary. I wanted to give other people a chance to prove it all – and then to prove how much help a service dog can bring your autistic child and your whole family.”
As well as highlighting the American dog guide, O’Donnell wanted to offer a glimpse of the support he received from Menéndez. (Lyle and his brother, Erik Menéndez. are currently serving their spouse Life sentences after being convicted of two counts of first degree murder. Lyle and Erik have both claimed that their mother and father are physically, emotionally and sexually aggressive and their actions are self-defense.)
“I’d say Lyle has one of the best records of any prisoners ever in California’s punishment system in the past 40 years,” he said Us. “What he has done and how he has bet himself and helped the community there in prison. There are also people who write to him for being male survivors of sexual abuse and is one of the most loving and kind people I’ve ever met. He helped me improve a lot of my own kind of trauma and suspicion of straight boys.”
O’Donnell noted that hitting friendship With Lyle in 2022 allowed her to work through issues from her past.
“I realized through many years of therapy that this was an area I had to heal – and having sons helped that too,” he added. “But there’s something about a mother’s love for a different son. That was different from what I needed to work on.”
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As Lyle and Erik continue push for reinning After several television projects put them back in the spotlight, O’Donnell has been publicly supported.
“I feel they are my brothers. We will do anything to help them. They know when they are out with whatever they need, I will be glad to help them with them. I trust them around my family. I have introduced them to my older children on the phone when we can make FaceTime conversations. This is a main relationship in my life,” he explained. “I know that sounds strange to people. We have the similarities of souls and we understood each other. The fact that he’s been in prison for 35 years, he really has worked very hard on knowing how to continue living with just a phone that interrupts you every 20 minutes. He knows how to climb over all the obstacles to humanity that the prison sets you and what he did.
Hope of Release: Power of Service Dogs for Children with Autism Available for streaming now on Hulu.
