Rosie O’Donnell has disclosed the staggering amount of money she had in her bank account before deciding to quit her talk show in 2002.
In a new interview, the TV personality revealed that as soon as her savings hit $100 million, she knew it was time to end The Rosie O’Donnell Show.
“When I heard that [number], I thought, ‘Okay, now I’m done,’ ” O’Donnell told Page Six. “And everyone was like, ‘Why are you leaving?’”
O’Donnell said she knew she could spend more time with her kids the moment she “had enough money to take care of everyone in my life, philanthropy and strangers.”
O’Donnell shares her four oldest children — Parker, 31, Chelsea, 28, Blake, 26, and Vivienne, 23 — with her ex-wife Kelli Carpenter. She also shares 13-year-old Clay with her late ex-wife, Michelle Rounds.
“I wanted to be at their softball games,” she said. “I wanted to be at school plays.”
O’Donnell also told the outlet that she declined an alleged $100 million offer from Warner Bros. to continue hosting the show for two more years.
“They were like, ‘Why would you say no?’” she recalled. “I was like, ‘Because I already have that money, and if I think I need more, something’s wrong with me.’”
“I don’t get the billionaires,” she added. “I don’t get how people only measure their life in money, not what they can do for other people.”
O’Donnell hosted six seasons of her eponymous show from 1996 through 2002 on NBC, with celebrity guests including Barbra Streisand, Ellen DeGeneres, Madonna, Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves.
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Last year, O’Donnell moved to Ireland with her youngest child, Clay, after Donald Trump’s return to the White House. She said at the time she was in the process of getting her Irish citizenship since she has Irish grandparents.
When she made her move, she said that it was “heartbreaking to see what’s happening politically” in the United States but thanked the people of Ireland for welcoming her. “It’s been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving and so kind, so welcoming. And I’m very grateful.”
O’Donnell said last year that she missed her daughter’s graduation from the University of Delaware due to her ongoing feud with the U.S. president.
“I am applying and about to be approved for my Irish citizenship as my grandparents were from there and that’s all you need,” she told the outlet. “It will be good to have my Irish citizenship, especially since Trump keeps threatening to take away mine,” she told the Australian Daily Telegraph last year.
O’Donnell has a long-running feud with Trump stretching back to 2006 when she was a host on The View.
Earlier this month, Trump mocked O’Donnell and a group of celebrities in a spoof AI video he posted on Truth Social, accusing them of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
The clip featured deepfake versions of O’Donnell, John Leguizamo, Whoopi Goldberg, Edward Norton, Robert De Niro and Julia Roberts talking about their struggles with the so-called ailment, where fake symptoms were listed as becoming dysfunctional, irrationally angry and socially unpopular.
Speaking to The Guardian, O’Donnell, 64, responded by saying: “He’s quite ill – and getting worse daily. The 25th Amendment exists for exactly this reason. Remove. Impeach. Convict.”
Trump has previously threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship and branded her a “threat to humanity.”