Rosie O’Donnell admits that Lale Meendez is the first “straight man”, she can “trust”

Rosie O’Donnell The strange connection, which she formed with the convicted killer Lila Menendez, opened.

57 -year -old Lale and his brother Eric Menedez, 54, are currently imprisoned in San Diego, where they are serving lifetime without the possibility of parole after they were convicted of the murder of parents, Jose and Mary Kitty Menendez in 1989.

During the interview with New York Times Posted on Saturday, the 63 -year -old O’Donnell shared details about her friendship with Lail and how they talked while he was behind bars.

“He started calling me regularly from a tablet,” she said. “He will tell me about his life, what he did in prison, and for the first time in my life I felt safe enough to trust and be vulnerable and love a direct person.”

Talking to the New York Times, O’Donnell shared that her relationship with Lail began during Brothers Menendez ‘ The court in 1996.

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Defenders Lale and Eric claimed that the brothers killed Jose and Kitty in self -defense after the parents suffered from many years of abuse and cruelty.

O’Donnell recalled that she appeared in the episode “Larry King live”, where she said she considered the defense of the brothers.

A Former leading current According to Nyt that Lale sent her a letter after interviewing “Larry King Live”. In the letter, Lale “thanked her for her support and stated that she” knew “from a personal place that what he was saying was true.”

O’Donnell said Nyt that her personal experience made her believe in Menendez’s brothers when she claimed that “her and her brothers and sisters were bullying her father.”

However, O’Donnell said she never responded to Laila’s letter.

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“At that moment, I didn’t dare anywhere near this family or therapy,” she said NYT.

Through the years, O’Dohnel and Lale After she watched the 2022 documentary, which included new evidence that supported the history of the Meendez brothers.

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O’Donnell discussed the case during a video of the ticket in which she again defended her brothers. After that, Laila Rebecu’s wife had a breakfast contacted her to “see if she was interested in talking to him.”

Then Lale and O’Donnell held their first telephone call, which the comedian said “lasting two hours”, and since then they have regularly maintained the connection.

O’Donnell acknowledged that some of her friends “expressed concern” about her unlikely relationship with Lila.

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She said nyt that “shrugged” when her friends told her: “po, he’s killer,” and instead went to visit Lyle in prison.

During her visit, Lale told her about the program in which he and his colleagues -prisoners help train and place dogs with blind, veterans and children who were diagnosed with autism.

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At the suggestion of Lale, O’Donnell decided to get a dog through the program for his 12-year-old son, which is autism. She “spent two weeks that went to jail daily” before bringing home Labrador mix named Kumu, who was trained by a prisoner who served time for armed robbery.

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“I immediately noticed the difference in clay,” she said Nyt. “I was shocked by learning that all the stories I heard from other mothers -autists were true.”

Experience inspired O’Donnell to the movie documentary About the program entitled “Breeding Hope: The Power of Service Dogs for Autism”, which debuts on Hulu on April 22.