Loads of folks dream of shifting to the US, however loads of individuals who reside right here additionally dream of leaving it.
Listed below are 18 celebs who moved out of the US and why:
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Rosie O’Donnell relocated to Eire. In a 2025 TikTok video, she stated, “I am right here in Eire, and it is stunning and heat — not bodily, it is really fairly chilly. Moved right here on January fifteenth, and it has been fairly fantastic, I’ve to say. The individuals are so loving and so form, so welcoming, and I am very grateful. I am within the strategy of getting my Irish citizenship, as I’ve Irish grandparents, and that is what is going on on…I used to be by no means somebody who thought I’d transfer to a different nation, that is what I made a decision can be the very best for myself and my 12-year-old baby. And right here we’re…”
“, I am comfortable. Clay is comfortable. I miss my different youngsters. I miss my mates. I miss many issues about life there at dwelling, and I am looking for a house right here on this stunning nation. And when, you recognize, it’s protected for all residents to have equal rights there in America, that is after we will think about coming again. It has been heartbreaking to see what’s taking place politically and arduous for me personally as properly. The non-public is political, as everyone knows,” she stated.
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In 2025, Richard Gere and his household moved to Spain, which is the place his spouse, Alejandra Gere, is from. He informed Elle España, “The reality is, you are seeing us in our second. We’re happier than ever. She’s comfortable as a result of she’s at dwelling, and I am comfortable as a result of if she’s comfortable, I am comfortable.”
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Throughout her marriage to Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner lived in LA and Miami, however she was homesick for the UK. After their divorce, she returned to London. She informed Harper’s Bazaar UK, “The gun violence, Roe v. Wade being overturned… All the pieces simply type of piled on. After the Uvalde [school] taking pictures, I knew it was time to get the fuck out of there. I am so comfortable to be again. I by no means really feel like myself after I’m not in London.”
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In 2024, Folks reported that Ellen DeGeneres fell in love with a home within the Cotswolds within the UK and moved there along with her spouse, Portia de Rossi. Per sources that spoke to The Wrap and TMZ, the couple reportedly moved overseas following the outcomes of the 2024 presidential election.
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In 2024, Eva Longoria informed Marie Claire that she and her household have been splitting their time between Spain [where she often works] and Mexico [where her husband, José Bastón, is from] for the previous couple of years. She stated, “I had my entire grownup life right here. However even earlier than [the pandemic], it was altering. The vibe was completely different. After which COVID occurred, and it pushed it over the sting. Whether or not it’s the homelessness or the taxes, not that I wish to shit on California — it simply looks like this chapter in my life is finished now…I am privileged. I get to flee and go someplace. Most People aren’t so fortunate. They’ll be caught on this dystopian nation, and my anxiousness and unhappiness is for them.”
Her feedback led to on-line hypothesis that she’d moved out of the US due to the 2024 election. So, to set the report straight, Eva referred to as into her good friend Ana Navarro’s podcast The View: Behind the Desk. She requested Ana, “Will you please allow them to know I did not transfer out of Spain, I imply america, due to Trump?”
Then, Eva added, “I have been in Europe working for nearly three years. By the way in which, the article says that. Folks simply grabbed some clickbait stuff to be divisive, which makes me so unhappy, you recognize. All the pieces you say is simply meant to be divisive after we cannot be that approach proper now…I didn’t go away due to the political atmosphere. I left as a result of my work took me there.”
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In 2025, Gabriel Macht revealed that he and his household left the US someday after Fits ended just a few years prior. He informed Folks, “I do not inform anyone the place I reside as a result of I prefer to preserve that beneath wraps. I bought out of city, and we’re exploring the world.”
He later informed E! Information, “I wish to see how the world seems in several folks’s eyes. I wish to see completely different views. I wish to be taught from others. I wish to see historical past and tradition and character in other places on the earth. I really feel like, why not? In case you have the chance, it is an effective way to boost youngsters.” He additionally stated he enjoys the “anonymity” and “slower tempo” in his new locale, including, “I like with the ability to take good walks. It helps to put on a hat.”
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In 2025, actor Shaun Majumder left LA and moved again to Canada together with his household. Somewhat than return dwelling to Newfoundland, they settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He informed CBC, “Have you ever been watching the information? Have you ever seen what is going on on? I ran out of a burning constructing with my kids beneath my arm and my spouse on my again. I am like, get me out of right here, that is loopy! , we have been type of, like, mulling over a giant change during the last six to eight months, to be trustworthy. Having two younger youngsters, residing in Los Angeles, is a extremely completely different expertise than shifting down there as a brilliant enthusiastic whippersnapper actor. However, you recognize, throughout COVID, we had two kids, and that modified our lives perpetually. We really went again to Newfoundland; it is type of the place we hunkered down. It simply looks like the proper storm.”
He additionally stated, “We additionally knew that the tides have been turning on the political panorama in America. We knew an election was arising, and I stated to my spouse, ‘Shelby, if Trump wins, I do not know. I’ve a sense that that is going to be the kicker to get me to go. I feel I have to go.’ We went via the election. We went to our household’s place in Florida for Christmas. We got here again to LA. The town was on hearth. Trump was now president, whether or not you want him or not. The nation was type of turning into extra chaotic. And we have been identical to, oh, yeah, if the universe wasn’t screaming at us proper now to get out of right here, then that is positively a kicker. And I do most of my work in Canada, so it simply is sensible for us to be up right here.”
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Throughout her relationship with soccer participant Adil Rami, Pamela Anderson moved to Provence, France as a result of he performed for Marseille. On the time, she informed Web-A-Porter, “I fell in love with Saint-Tropez 20 years in the past, after I did a photoshoot for Playboy. It was at all times my plan to come back and reside right here when the children have been grown up. Everyone seems to be so stunning right here. Possibly it’s the sunshine, very wholesome and golden.”
Then, in 2020, in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Pamela returned dwelling to Vancouver Island, British Columbia along with her two grownup sons, bought and renovated her grandma’s motel, and commenced engaged on her grandpa’s backyard. She informed Higher Houses & Gardens, “Just a few years again, I type of gave up sooner or later and wanted a change. I assumed, ‘Nicely, I suppose that is simply what folks consider me.’ I used to be not in a very good area after I moved again to Canada. I do not know what occurred over the previous couple of many years, however I really feel now to date faraway from the picture of who I used to be. I felt very unhappy and lonely.”
“I did not really feel simply misunderstood; I felt like I had actually screwed up, that my entire life was a bundle of errors. I used to be arduous on myself, and I assumed I put my household via loads and put my youngsters via a lot. I got here to some extent the place I made a decision to maneuver dwelling and disappear and get into my backyard. And after I began constructing the backyard, it was actually like a metaphor of placing my life again collectively. I started planting seeds, and the smallest issues grew to become actually profound,” she stated.
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After residing in Hollywood for 20 years, comic Tom Inexperienced moved dwelling to Ontario, Canada in 2021. He lives on a 150-acre farm. He informed the New York Instances, “I am probably not a Hollywood man. I began to really feel like I wasn’t being true to my genuine self.”
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Janet Jackson has lived in London, UK since about 2016. In keeping with the Guardian, she stayed within the metropolis after her 2017 divorce from billionaire Wissam Al Mana, who’s from Qatar however lives in London, as a result of they co-parent their son, Eissa. She informed the outlet, “A very powerful factor I’ve performed, the largest factor I’ve performed, is turn into a mom, and it is had a fantastic influence on my life. I wished to have three kids however thought, ‘I ought to cease there; that is most likely all I can deal with.’ As a result of it’s a must to give all of your self, it’s a must to unfold the love, and I would not need any of them to really feel not noted if I had three. Clearly, it’s a must to work, however you do not come first anymore. Your life utterly modifications. And I would not commerce it for something.”
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Lily Collins and her husband, Charlie McDowell, relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2023. The couple honeymooned in Denmark in 2021, and so they co-own the media manufacturing and actual property firm Case Examine Copenhagen.
Lily informed Elle Denmark, “Life right here is simply so fantastic and so calm and vivid. And what I like a lot is that there is a lot colour and, but, it is so calm. I like with the ability to bike in all places. And it looks like a giant metropolis but in addition very intimate, and everyone seems to be so good.”
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Lindsay Lohan and her household reside in Dubai. She relocated to the UAE in 2014. In keeping with Cosmopolitan, she moved to Dubai as a result of paparazzi are unlawful.
In 2024, she informed Flaunt, “It’s nonetheless a metropolis. So it’s fairly related. I imply, I do something that anybody else does of their day by day life. I’m up with my son within the mornings, I do breakfast with him, go to my pilates, come dwelling for lunch, and go to the park, the identical issues that any regular mother would do of their day by day life. Otherwise you would do in LA. I feel the one distinction is the time zone shift. There’s a giant disconnect between when work begins for me and different locations. I can do my work calls with New York at like three or 4, round this time, after which LA picks up later.”
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In 1995, Tina Turner moved to Switzerland with Erwin Bach, her then-boyfriend (and later husband). In 1997, she informed CNN, “I’ve left America as a result of my success was out of the country, and my boyfriend was out of the country.”
She additionally stated she was “as massive as Madonna” in Europe. She stated, “I went to England for a few years, after which I met a person, and I lived three years with him in his nation, in Germany. Then I purchased a home, within the meantime, within the south of France, and I began to rebuild that, so I am out and in of there. That is not a spot I can go typically. [Home is] Zurich. As a result of my boyfriend was moved there to run the corporate, and I at all times wished to go to Switzerland, and I used to be very comfortable.”
In 2013, Tina married Erwin and have become a Swiss citizen.
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In a 2024 Instagram video, Britney Spears shared that she moved to Mexico due to the “extraordinarily imply and merciless” therapy she’d confronted from paparazzi. She stated, “It actually type of hurts my emotions that the paparazzi make my face appear to be I am sporting, like, a white Jason masks. It does not even appear to be me. They’ve at all times been extremely merciless to me, the paparazzi and photos and the way in which they’ve illustrated me to be in a few of it.”
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In 2021, George Clooney reportedly moved to Brignoles, Provence, France together with his spouse, Amal Clooney, and their kids. He and his spouse, Amal Clooney, reportedly wish to have a “peaceable life” and lift their kids primarily in France.
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In 2023, Christina Milian and her household moved to France, the place her husband, singer M. Pokora, is from. She informed the Jennifer Hudson Present, “My husband is French, and we have been collectively for over seven or eight years, and for, like, the final three or 4 years, we have been commuting backwards and forwards each six months. After which we determined to decide to it final 12 months as a result of our children have been going to go to high school.”
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Josh Hartnett and his spouse, Tamsin Egerton, lived between the US and the UK (her dwelling nation) for years however spent lockdown within the UK. Then, after they have been anticipating their third baby, they determined to remain in Hampshire for good. In 2024, he informed the Guardian that in NYC or LA, “folks solely wish to speak about your profession,” however he prefers how, in Hampshire, “no one cares.” He additionally stated that, as a result of he is on a wedding visa, he is solely allowed to go away the UK for work for 180 days out of the 12 months, giving him time to make about one film. He is positive with that and enjoys attending to spend extra time together with his youngsters whereas they’re rising up.
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And at last, Michael Sheen moved from LA again dwelling to Port Talbot, Wales in 2018. He first started contemplating relocation seven years prior when he performed Jesus in an area three-day-long theatrical efficiency of the Ardour alongside residents who have been coping with the growing value of residing and job losses.
He informed the Sunday Instances, “When you turn into conscious of difficulties within the space you come from, you do not have to do something. You may reside someplace else, go to household at Christmas, and switch a blind eye to injustice. It does not make you a nasty particular person, however I would seen one thing I could not unsee. I needed to apply myself, and I may not have the influence I would like, however the one factor that I can say is that I am doing stuff. I do know I’m — I am paying for it!”
