Their first phone call lasted three hours.

A prison sentence was the start of a beautiful friendship forRosie O’DonnellandLyle Menendez.

The actress alleged that she and her siblings had indeed been molested by their father.

Rosie O’Donnell attends Inaugural SignLight International Film Festival: Opening Night Screening Of “Being Michelle” at SilverScreen Theater on April 16, 2024 in West Hollywood, California. Trial of the Menendez brothers in Los Angeles - Lyle Menendez. Los Angeles, 9th March 1994.

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O’Donnell said yes, and her first phone conversation with the prisoner lasted three hours.

He was eventually paired with a Labrador mix, and O’Donnell “noticed the change in Clay immediately.”

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TRIAL OF THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS IN LOS ANGELES : Portrait of Lyle Menendez.

Lyle Menendez on trial.Kim Kulish/Sygma via Getty

“It’s time.

I believe them,” she said.

“They were horribly abused by their parents… Free the Menendez brothers.”

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On the whole, it’s not something I like to talk about.

Of course, it changes everyone."

Nicholas Alexander Chavez attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story” at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on September 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. , Trial of the Menendez brothers in Los Angeles - Lyle Menendez. Los Angeles, 9th March 1994

Rosie O’Donnell attends ELLE’s 2024 Women in Hollywood celebration presented by Ralph Lauren, Harry Winston and TikTok at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on November 19, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

Rosie O’Donnell in 2024.Stefanie Keenan/Getty

Erik Menendez (L) and his brother Lyle (R) listen during a pre-trial hearing, on December 29, 1992 in Los Angeles after the two pleaded innocent in the August 1989 shotgun deaths of their wealthy parents, Jose and Mary Louise Menendez of Beverly Hills, Calif.

Erik Menendez (left) and his brother Lyle (right) at a pre-trial hearing in 1992.VINCE BUCCI/AFP via Getty