Final week, Rosie O’Donnell left her New Jersey weekend house for the primary time in two months and he or she was terrified.
O’Donnell, 58, needed to journey into Manhattan to have an annual coronary heart take a look at after struggling a coronary heart assault in 2012.
“I used to be saying to my physician are you certain we’d like this?” she lately informed Web page Six. “She mentioned this pandemic goes to go for a very long time so if we wait until that is over we’re going to be speaking a few 12 months, ‘I don’t need (you) to attend a 12 months.That is the aspect of the hospital that doesn’t have any Covid and so they’re solely taking one shopper at a time and I received you in.’”
And like many in quarantine, “The View” alum has been bingeing on junk meals, particularly Pop Tarts.
“We had a whole lot of junk at first when it was first occurring and I used to be panicking,” she defined. “I informed the one who works right here get us some Pop Tarts so he received us about 40 containers … and it began to get actually unhappy after I realized there have been solely about half the containers left and I’m the one one in the home who eats them.”
The “Sleepless in Seattle” actress usually lives in New York Metropolis however doesn’t suppose she’ll be returning anytime quickly.
“With out theater, with out eating places, that’s what your life in NYC is about,” she mentioned. “Museums and tradition and artwork reveals and for me, theater, theater, theater. I do theater twice per week.”
O’Donnell at present seems within the HBO’s “I Know This A lot is True” with Mark Ruffalo. Within the restricted collection, Ruffalo struggles to handle his paranoid schizophrenic twin brother. The challenge is deeply private for O’Donnell, who suffers from psychological sickness.
“I battle with my very own psychological sickness, main depressive dysfunction and PTSD, additionally I’ve anxiousness points,” she mentioned, “and I used to be very blissful to see a job for a paranoid schizophrenic who wasn’t a assassin.
“Each time you see somebody like that on TV, oh they’re going to make him the assassin. Paranoid schizophrenics are more likely to harm themselves than anybody else. Compassion is required and I feel this movie provides you compassion.”