Ex-Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Returns to NYC Apartment After Release from Prison Due to COVID-19

Cohen has reportedly been writing a tell-all memoir about his days working for Trump while he's been in prison over the last year. According to actress and famed Trump rival, Rosie O'Donnell, the former attorney's tell-all is "pretty spicy."

The pair's unlikely friendship started over personal letters while Cohen was in prison and ended in O'Donnell visiting him at the Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville, in upstate New York to offer writing advice as the president's ex-lawyer continues to work on the project.

“He told me what chapters he was doing in his book, and on my way home, I was writing about what had happened between us, and I gave him my breakdown of things that should be in chapters,” O’Donnell, 58, told The Daily Beast earlier this month. “I said, ‘You should tell this story as a chapter, you should tell this story as a chapter.’ He’s in the midst of writing it, and is nearly done writing it, and hopes that it’ll be out before the election.”

Trump called Cohen a "rat" in late 2018 as his former lawyer testified against him ahead of his two convictions. Last year, the president dismissed Cohen as a "bad lawyer" and a "fraudster."

Cohen had also served as the vice president of the Trump Organization before their relationship soured under the weight of federal investigations. “I take full responsibility for each act that I pled guilty to,” Cohen said upon pleading guilty in 2018. “The personal ones to me and those involving the President of the United States of America.”

Following his sentencing last May, Cohen told reporters outside his New York City apartment that he planned to speak out extensively about his dealings with Trump after he was released from prison.

“I hope that when I rejoin my family and friends, that the country will be in a place without xenophobia, injustice and lies at the helm of our country,” Cohen told reporters before heading off to. “There still remains much to be told, and I look forward to the day that I can share the truth.”

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