Rosie O’Donnell’s unexpected friendship with convict Lyle Menéndez’s murderous is still strong.
The “The View” student tells Page Six exclusively who still chat “approximately two or three times a week” while he and his brother, Erik Menéndez, continually to fulfill his life sentences to tie his parents in 1989.
O’Donnell began talking to Menéndez in 2022 after seeing a documentary about the brothers.
His case has been renewed scrutiny after a Netflix documentary that claims that the brothers had been abused by their father for years.
O’Donnell, 63, has the hope that they will be launched soon.
“I’m sure of that in my mind,” he tells us. “I have to be.”
She adds: “I think it is the only way you can love and care for some who fulfill life without probation, is to have endless hope and believe in their ability to get out of this really inhuman prayer.”
Duration One of O’Donnell’s visits with Lyle, noticed many prisoners sitting with Golden Retriever dogs.
Lyle explained that dogs were being trained by jailed men to help children with autism and suggested that O’Donnell obtained a dog for his youngest son, Clay, who has autism.
A year later, Clay, 12, who uses pronouns, combined with a mixture of black labrador called Kuma.
The “Harriet The Spy” star says that the changes in the clay have been extraordinary.
“The drawings of people with bloody hands and knives have stopped,” he shares. “The laughter has returned, the brightness in his eyes, the ability to go out to the restaurants, the ability to keep himself present and not disappear in themselves, generally Becoaus Kuma comes and push them.”
O’Donnell was so impressed by the program that decided to film a brief documentary about it.
O’Donnell, like many in the autism community, is furious with the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., where they alleged that children diagnosed with autism “will never be well. They will never write a PUM.
“I hope to have to do in person because I don’t want to contain my disgust,” she says.
“Unleashing hope: the power of service dogs for children with autism” is transmitting in Hulu.
