Rosie O’Donnell has addressed previously supporting politician Eric Swalwell before his sexual misconduct scandal got here to light.
“You’ll be able to’t help but feel the entire chaos of the country once you’re there, like, you may’t help but feel it,” O’Donnell, 64, said in a recent TikTok video about her recent trip across the pond from Ireland to go to family. “Can we talk for a bit bit about Eric Swalwell? I do know that guy.”
O’Donnell further revealed that she had previously spoken with Swalwall, 45, “on the phone a pair times” and sure donated money to his campaign.
“[I] talked about him in some public appearances years ago about how I believed in him and his cute little family,” the actress recalled. “[I spoke about him] standing as much as all those people when he berates them for his or her moral-less behavior, after which all this comes out.”
News broke earlier in April that multiple women, including one in all Swalwell’s former staffers, accused the disgraced congressman of sexual misconduct and harassment. He vehemently denied the accusations.
“These allegations are false and are available on the eve of an election against the frontrunner for governor,” Swalwell said in a press release. “For nearly 20 years, I even have served the general public — as a prosecutor and a congressman and have at all times protected women.”
Eric Swalwell. Matei Horvath/Getty Images for California Environmental Voters
He continued, “I don’t suggest to you in any way that I’m perfect or that I’m a saint. I even have actually made mistakes in judgment in my past. Those mistakes are between me and my wife. And to her, I apologize deeply for putting her on this position.”
Swalwall has been married to Brittany Watts, with whom he shares three children, since 2016. While Watts has not publicly addressed the scandal, Swalwall has since resigned from his position within the U.S. Congress and suspended his campaign for California governor.
As for O’Donnell, she found the scandal to be “heartbreaking.”
Rosie O’Donnell revealed she secretly traveled to the USA after leaving the country amid Donald Trump’s second term as president. “I used to be recently home for 2 weeks and I did not likely tell anyone,” O’Donnell, 63, said after calling into SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings on Friday, February 13. “I just went to see my family. […]
“I wrote him a bit message, and I said, ‘Bill Clinton broke my heart and now you probably did too,’” she said. “The conclusion I’ve come to: ‘Men suck.’ The way in which that they’re physiologically they’ll’t, kind of, control their sexual urges. That is what I find.”
Swalwall, who has not publicly responded to O’Donnell’s message, has vowed to fight the accusations.
“We’re confident that the reality will prevail,” his attorney Sara Azari said in an April statement, denying the allegations. “We are going to pursue every available legal treatment against those accountable for orchestrating these reprehensible campaign of lies.”
In case you or someone you already know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).