Rosie O’Donnell apologizes after false comments on the shooter of the church of Minneapolis

Rosie O’Donnell, the liberal actress and comics, apologized on Sunday on social networks after having falsely affirmed that the shooter of the school of the Catholic church of Minneapolis was a supporter Maga, a republican and a white supremacist.

Last Thursday, O’Donnell published a video after learning the attack that made two children and 18 other injured, including 15 children.

The actress said violence reminded her of the Columbine massacre in 1999, when she had trouble understanding that American students were getting out of schools.

Regarding the filming of Minneapolis, O’Donnell stressed that he took place in a Catholic school and added: “What do you know? It was a white, republican guy, Maga. What do you know? White supremacists.”

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On Sunday, O’Donnell delivered her comments, admitting that she was wrong on the identity of the shooter.

“I knew that many of you were very upset by the video I made before leaving for a few days,” she said in a new video, adding that she hadn’t had time to read the comments until Sunday. “You are right. I did not make my due diligence before making this emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter who were incorrect.

“I supposed, like most shooters, they followed a standard MO and had standard feelings, feelings … You know, a kind of firearm,” continued O’Donnell. “Anyway, the truth is that I have spoiled, and when you are mistaken, you do yourself. I’m sorry. It’s my video of excuses and I hope it’s enough.”

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Rosie O’Donnell photographed in Ireland after her comedy. (Mark Doyle)

His apologies aroused strong criticism online. A user called it “the most free apology of all time”. Another wrote: “She’s not sorry, she always means what she said.” A third said that she “tried to save her face because she opened her mouth and was so wrong”.

In the comments, O’Donnell responded to a critic, writing: “I was wrong – and I apologize – that more [you] to want?”

Others said the misstep reflected a more important problem. “It is good that you have apologized, but that is what maintains this country so divided,” wrote a person. “So many misdeeds propagate by both sides. People need to check all the political things they see because the majority is a lie.”

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An honorary memorial, the victims of shooting is outside the Annunciation church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 28, 2025. (Tim Evans / Reuters)

O’Donnell’s remarks occurred less than a week after the shooter opened fire during a mass at the Catholic church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis, where students from the attached school were gathered.

The shots broke the stained glass windows and the windows on the bench side while the students and the parishioners managed to hide.

FBI director Kash Patel said on Thursday that the “barbaric” attack seemed to be an act of domestic terrorism “motivated by an ideology filled with hatred”.

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Patel said that the manifesto and the shooter on firearms expressed anti-Catholic and anti-religious themes, as well as violent anti-Semitic messages. Among them, there were sentences such as “Israel must fall” and “free Palestine”, alongside insults linked to the holocaust.