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        <title><![CDATA[Rosie O’Donnell is helping Michael Cohen write ‘spicy’ Trump tell-all]]></title>
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            <media:title type="html">Rosie O’Donnell is helping Michael Cohen write ‘spicy’ Trump tell-all</media:title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rosie O’Donnell has confirmed she is helping former nemesis Michael Cohen write a &#8220;spicy&#8221; tell-all about his years working for President Trump, as <strong>previously revealed by Page Six</strong>.</p><p>O&#8217;Donnell <strong>told the Daily Beast</strong> that she visited the then-jailed lawyer in prison for six hours and agreed to help with his memoir, an unlikely partnership <strong>Page Six first revealed</strong> at the beginning of March.</p><p>“It’s pretty spicy,” she promised of the book.</p><p>“He’s in the midst of writing it, and is nearly done writing it, and hopes that it’ll be out before the election,&#8221; she told the site.</p><p>O&#8217;Donnell said she struck up her unlikely friendship with Cohen as he was in the upstate Otisville federal prison <strong>serving a three-year sentence</strong> for lying to Congress and making illegal hush-money payments.</p><p>“I wrote him a letter the day that Trump got impeached,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell, 58, told the Daily Beast, saying she &#8220;found his inmate number online.&#8221;</p><p>She forgave him for his attacks on her in a letter she says left him &#8220;so moved&#8221; he &#8220;started crying.&#8221;</p><p>In that letter, she told Cohen that she found it &#8220;mind-boggling&#8221; that he was &#8220;sitting in jail for doing exactly what the boss told you to do.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;No matter how long it took you, you’ll be known and respected for that as much as any horror you’ve committed through him,&#8221; she wrote.</p><p>The letter sparked an unlikely friendship between the pair, with the former &#8220;View&#8221; host eventually visiting him in prison for six hours, she said in the interview published in part on Saturday.</p><p>“Michael and I talked a lot about how he got involved in Trump, how it’s a cult, and what role he played not only in Trump Inc.,&#8221; she told the site in an interview published Saturday.</p><figure id="attachment_5248196"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/michael-cohen.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/michael-cohen.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/michael-cohen.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Michael Cohen</span><span class="credit">Atilgan Ozdil/Getty Images</span></figcaption></figure><p>The 53-year-old disbarred lawyer then discussed his impending tell-all about his years with Trump, with O’Donnell offering advice following her own success penning memoirs.</p><p>“He told me what chapters he was doing in his book, and on my way home, I was writing about what had happened between us, and I gave him my breakdown of things that should be in chapters.</p><p>“I said, ‘You should tell this story as a chapter, you should tell this story as a chapter,&#8217;&#8221; she said of the advice she gave.</p><p>Despite their troubled relationship in the past, O&#8217;Donnell said she always felt she could relate to Cohen because &#8220;he always looked to me like someone from my neighborhood.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;He grew up on Long Island like I did, he’s a few years younger, and he reminds me of my brothers. I look at this guy and go, ‘How did he fall under the spell of that charlatan?’” she said.</p><p>Cohen last month <strong>appeared set to leave prison</strong> amid the coronavirus pandemic &#8212; a move later <strong>rescinded by a judge</strong> who says he needs to &#8220;accept the consequences of his criminal convictions for serious crimes that had far reaching institutional harms.”</p>]]></content:encoded>
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