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Rosie O’Donnell Reveals How Often She Speaks to Lyle Menendez in Prison


Rosie O'Donnell talks about her frequent calls with Lyle Menendez and their unique friendship as he serves a life sentence for murder

On April 17, a judge postponed the brothers’ latest resentencing hearing in order to consider the admissibility of the California state parole board’s risk assessment review about a potential prison release, according to Variety. MIKE NELSON/AFP via Getty ImagesO’Donnell said of the brothers’ current legal fight, “I think it’s the only way that you can love and care for someone who’s serving life without parole, is to have endless hope and believe in their ability to get out of this really inhumane sentence.” O’Donnell has been a longtime supporter of the Menendez brothers, having told Larry King Live in 1996 that she believed their argument that they were abused by their parents as children and killed them in self-defense.

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