Rosie O'Donnell Sings 'I Am Woman' With Jeffrey Epstein Survivors in Instagram Video
Rosie O'Donnell posted a video to her Instagram on Thursday in which she stands alongside several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse and sex trafficking, singing Helen Reddy's 1972 anthem "I Am Woman" together. The women are dressed in all white, standing side by side with fists raised. Variety
In the video, O'Donnell tells the survivors they are all heroes and that they will change how the world deals with child sex abuse. The reel ends with photographs of the women when they were younger, followed by the words "Support Survivors" and "The Epstein Files." Variety
In her caption, O'Donnell explains the motivation. She writes that after what she calls the "corrupt AG" — described in her post as Trump's former personal lawyer — stated no men would be charged in the Epstein files despite what she describes as mountains of evidence, she called Epstein survivors and asked them to sing the Helen Reddy song with her. The caption also quotes the lyric: "Yes I am wise — but it's wisdom born of pain…" and includes the hashtag #fistsUP, matching the raised-fist imagery in the video. Variety; Instagram
The video is posted on O'Donnell's official Instagram account, @rosie, where her profile describes it as: "epstein files · i called some epstein survivors asked them to sing with me a powerful helen reddy song · video sing I AM WOMAN." Instagram
This is not O'Donnell's first public statement on the Epstein matter. In September 2025, she posted the message: "I'm the distraction. Epstein survivors are the reckoning," amid pressure for Congress to release all Epstein files. Time Around the same time, President Trump threatened to revoke O'Donnell's US citizenship in the course of their long-running feud over the Epstein files. The Hill; Time O'Donnell responded on Instagram: "you want to revoke my citizenship? go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan i'm not yours to silence i never was rosie." Instagram
O'Donnell recently took over as a week-long guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live in August, bringing her back to a mainstream television audience shortly before this video was posted. Variety
What gives the video its weight is the pairing of a pop-culture figure many viewers know from daytime television with women speaking publicly about one of the most closely watched abuse cases in recent American history — and the choice of a song that, more than fifty years after its release, still carries the meaning its title declares.
