Rosie O’Donnell Says ABC Blocked Epstein Survivors Segment on Kimmel

Rosie O’Donnell said in a recent interview on the Jann Arden Podcast (via HuffPost) that ABC blocked a planned segment with Jeffrey Epstein survivors during her stint guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! “My idea for the last night was to do the Epstein reveal, and they said that they were certain that could not happen,” O’Donnell said. “And so I said, ‘Well, then I’m going to do it myself and just put it out on our [own].'” O’Donnell explained that she had been working with a woman named Laura from the advocacy group Survivor Sisters to bring in “a cross-section” of eight women. “We met, and I told them about my history, and I told them why it means so much to me and to the human race, and why this is [of] vital importance. We shot it in a few hours — two hours; we shot the whole thing.” In the video, which O’Donnell later posted to her Instagram, O’Donnell and seven Epstein survivors (one couldn’t make it because her child had lice) sing Helen Reddy’s feminist anthem “I Am Woman” together. “I know it’s been very hard for you and with very little support,” she says to the women to open the clip. “And I’m sorry that our country is so fucked up that this is what you have to live through...