Rosie O'Donnell says ABC blocked her interview with Epstein survivors

Via HuffPost, O’Donnell made the censorship claim on The Jann Arden Podcast, where she told hosts that she had planned to interview several Epstein survivors during her last night on the show. But, according to O’Donnell, her segment was halted—by the same network that suspended Kimmel, allegedly after pressure by the Trump administration. 

“My idea for the last night was to do the Epstein reveal,” O’Donell explained of her plan to have a group of the infamous sex trafficker’s victims appear on the show. “And they said that they were certain that that could not happen,” O’Donnell says she was told. In the end, O’Donnell, who told the network she would “do it herself,” recorded an Instagram video in which she and the women, all dressed in white, sang a rousing version of Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman.” 

In the text accompanying the video, O’Donnell, long an advocate for survivors of sexual abuse, called former Trump personal lawyer turned attorney general Tood Blanche “corrupt,” echoing a group of survivors’ July statement calling out Blanche for ignoring their claims and for publishing personal information (including nude photos) of several survivors while continuing to shield the identities of the men accused of abusing them. 

HuffPost says neither ABC nor Jimmy Kimmel Live! have yet responded to O’Donnell’s claim.