Rosie O'Donnell believes Mounjaro "saved [her] life".

The 64-year-old star has struggled with her weight since her childhood, and Rosie has credited the drug for changing her life in recent years.

Rosie - who was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes three years ago - told People: "It's a miracle drug.

"I was stunned how it quieted the food noise. I've had trouble with my weight my whole life."

Rosie subsequently explained the origins of her weight struggles.

She said: "I know some people are ashamed to talk about it but I wanted to share how it helped me and I don't like secrets as a whole.

"When my mom died, all of us children gained weight. My father would give us a one hundred dollar bill and we would go to Foodtown to do the food shopping.

"Now if you're 11-years-old and you're shopping for a family of five, there's nothing nutritious about it. It was Entenmann's and Cap'n Crunch and we would always say, 'Subtotal please,' and when it got near one hundred, we'd put back the chicken and the hamburger meat. Everyone got heavy. Everyone was in such grief and trauma.

"And so Mounjaro saved my life. I've lost a pound or two a month for three years."

Rosie is happy to extol the virtues of the weight-loss medication and she hopes other people are able to resolve their own weight-loss issues, too.

Rosie reflected: "I really wish I could do commercials for Mounjaro and they would drop the price instead of paying me. Because when I see people struggling with obesity, I want to say I know the shame that we carry and the humiliation that is dealt to people who are overweight."

Rosie has admitted to feeling "much healthier" now than she did at the height of her fame.

She said: "When I would do late night, my biggest concern wasn't my set, it was, did I look fat? The first time I did a talk show, it was Pat Sajak and people were saying 'You were so good,' and I'd go, 'How did I look in that blazer?' I wasn't even heavy then.

"I feel much healthier and more powerful in my physicality."