Rosie O’Donnell has claimed Donald Trump made her overeat.

The actress and comedian said that living in the US during Mr Trump’s first term took a severe toll on her mental health, causing her to eat and drink too much.

She added that she decided to flee the country following his November election win for the sake of “self-preservation”.

“I was very, very depressed. I was overeating. I was overdrinking,” she said, during an appearance on The Chris Cuomo Project podcast.

“It hurt my heart that America believed the lies about him. And then it broke my heart to be in a business that creates and sells those lies for profit.”

Around the time of Kamala Harris’s election defeat a host of celebrities left, or threatened to leave, the country because of Mr Trump.