Rosie O’Donnell is opening up about her recent facelift and whether she plans to have any more cosmetic work done.
“No, I don’t think so,” the former talk show host, 64, told E! News at the 2026 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 7.
O’Donnell said she decided to get a facelift, despite previously being against the procedure, after losing a considerable amount of weight, which caused her to have excess skin on her face.
“I’m on [diabetes and weight loss drug] Mounjaro for the last three years. I have diabetes, and I lost over 50 pounds and then was responsible for a lot of the extra skin that I had around my face,” she explained. “And there were two lines that made me look sad. In Ireland, people would say, ‘Are you upset, darling? What’s the matter, love?’ and I’m like, ‘That’s just my face. I’m not upset. It’s just how I look.’”
The former View cohost, who moved to Ireland last year, first shared her transformation in a May 25 Substack post, admitting that she initially felt the procedure “was a betrayal. Of feminism. Of aging. Of our team of women worldwide.”
However, since going under the knife in January, O’Donnell said she wants to be open and honest about the work she’s had done.
“Authenticity is the goal in these days and times, and people are lying about everything all day to the American public. It’s very depressing to me and unsettling, and I think all that matters is truth and love,” she said. “And so, I wanted to be truthful and say all the complicated feelings I had about it.”
“I just felt it was better to be truthful than not, and I didn’t want some tabloid to go, ‘Gotcha!’” the comedian went on. “I just wanted to say, ‘Here’s what I did, here’s the doctor…’ and if you want to, it’s very expensive. It’s more expensive than any car I ever bought, but I can’t drive around in my face.”
In her Substack post, O’Donnell addressed how her appearance changed after losing weight, writing, “It wasn’t wrinkles — it was gravity. I’d look in the mirror and think, ‘This isn’t aging, this is melting with intention.’ I tried to be evolved about it and say things like, ‘This is natural. This is earned.’ And then … ‘Umm, how earned does it have to look?’ There’s a point where acceptance starts to feel like lying.”
O’Donnell said she enlisted a doctor who had worked with some of her friends and is pleased with the results of her procedure.
“I wanted to still be me, just … less haunted. And I do look like me — a slightly more well-rested, emotionally stable version of me,” she wrote.
“I didn’t disappear, I didn’t become someone else — I just stopped arguing with the mirror,” O’Donnell added. “And maybe that’s enough. Or at the very least … it’s what a lower deep plane facelift looks like when it minds its own business.”
