Rosie O’Donnell decided to go under the knife after being on the receiving end of some well-meaning but clumsy comments about her appearance.
“People in Ireland would say, ‘Are you upset, luv? What’s the matter, darling?’” the comedian told Page Six at the 2026 Tony Awards Sunday.
O’Donnell noted the queries were prompted by her “very deep marionette lines from losing all the weight from Mounjaro.”
The “View” alum, 64, was forced to explain she wasn’t in a bad mood.
“I’d say, ‘No, it’s just my face,’ so I wanted to get those removed,” O’Donnell shared, clarifying that her procedure affected the lower portion of her face, from the nose down.
Last month, the “A League of Their Own” star revealed on social media she underwent a facelift that “cost more money than [she has] ever paid for a car.”
“And that feels almost shameful to me,” she continued. “The things I have — earned some say, but it’s the gross excess that wounds me.”
O’Donnell, at the time, said she had always vowed to “never” get one, describing them as a “betrayal” of feminism.
However, she began to change her mind when she lost 50 pounds with the weight-loss drug and noticed those, as she told Page Six, “deep marionette lines.”
“I tried to be evolved about it and say things like, ‘This is natural. This is earned,’ she wrote in the post revealing her procedure. “And then … ‘umm how earned does it have to look?’”
“So in January, I did it,” O’Donnell continued. “I found a doctor I trusted — who had worked on friends of mine who all still looked like themselves … I wanted to still be me, just… less haunted.”
The “Harriet the Spy” star praised the operation, stating she still looks like herself but just “a slightly more well-rested, emotionally stable version” of herself.
O’Donnell told Page Six that although she loves the results, she doesn’t plan on getting another one.
The comedian, who now lives in Ireland, will be stateside this summer to perform her new one-woman show, “Common Knowledge,” on Broadway.
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