Rosie O’Donnell decided to go under the knife after receiving well-meaning but clumsy comments about her appearance.
“People in Ireland will be like, ‘Are you upset? What’s wrong, darling?'” the comedian told Page Six at the 2026 Tony Awards Sunday.
Ms O’Donnell pointed out that the question was prompted by her “losing weight on Munjaro and very deep marionette lines”.
The View alumnus, 64, was forced to explain that he was not in a bad mood.
“I wanted them removed because I said, ‘No, it’s just my face,'” O’Donnell said, revealing that her surgery affected the lower part of her face from the nose down.
Last month, the “A League of Their Own” star revealed on social media that she had undergone cosmetic surgery that “cost more than I’ve ever paid for a car.”
“And that feels almost embarrassing to me,” she continued. “The excess of what I have, as some people say, hurts me.”
At the time, Ms O’Donnell described it as a “betrayal” of feminism and said she had always vowed to “never” get it.
But she began to change her mind when she lost 50 pounds on weight loss pills and realized they were, as she told Page Six, “deep marionette lines.”
“I tried to evolve about it and say things like, ‘This is natural. This is earned.’ And then…’Hmm, how much do I need to look like I’m earned?'” she wrote in a post revealing her steps.
“So in January I did it,” O’Donnell continued. “I found a doctor I trusted who was still treating friends who looked just like us…I wanted to be the same person I had always been, but I just…it didn’t bother me as much.”
The “Harriet the Spy” star praised the surgery, saying that while she still looks like herself, she is just “a slightly more well-rested, emotionally stable version” of herself.
O’Donnell told Page Six that while she’s happy with the result, she doesn’t plan on getting another one.
The comedian, who currently lives in Ireland, will be in the United States this summer to perform his new one-man play, Common Knowledge, on Broadway.
