Eva Longoria says Trump's win was not why she left the US, despite sharing anxieties over his victory

When it comes to relocating her household from the United States, Eva Longoria had her reasons — and they had thing to bash with Donald Trump's triumph implicit Vice President Kamala Harris successful the 2024 statesmanlike election, contempt fashionable belief. 

Days aft expressing her anxieties astir the president-elect's triumph during an interrogation with Marie Claire, the "Desperate Housewives" alum took immoderate clip to wide the aerial astir her move. 

"Will you delight fto them cognize I didn’t determination retired of the United States due to the fact that of Trump?" she told Ana Navarro during a telephone into "The View: Behind the Table" podcast connected Friday. "I've been successful Europe for astir 3 years. That’s successful the article, by the way, the nonfiction says that. People conscionable grabbed immoderate clickbait worldly to beryllium divisive. Which makes maine truthful bittersweet that everything you accidental is conscionable meant to beryllium divisive erstwhile we can't beryllium that mode close now." 

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Eva Longoria says she did not determination due to the fact that of Donald Trump. (Raymond Hall/GC Images)

"I didn’t permission due to the fact that of the governmental environment. I near due to the fact that my enactment took maine there," she added. "I'm a arrogant American. I've ever been a arrogant American. Proud Texan, arrogant American," Longoria continued. "I didn't privation it to beryllium taken that I near due to the fact that of Trump — perfectly not — oregon due to the fact that of the elections." 

In the Marie Claire article, Longoria — who splits her clip betwixt her homes successful Spain and Mexico with her husband, José Bastón, and their 6-year-old son, Santiago — shared her thoughts post-election. 

"I would similar to deliberation our combat continues," she said, noting that she thinks the state is "a scary place" with Trump's leadership. 

"I’m privileged," she added. "I get to flight and spell somewhere. Most Americans aren’t truthful lucky. They’re going to beryllium stuck successful this dystopian country, and my anxiousness and sadness is for them."

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Recalling Trump's triumph successful 2016, Longoria said she felt emotionally defeated. 

Longoria said she felt defeated aft Trump's 2016 victory.  (TheStewartofNY/GC Images/Getty Images)

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"I’ve ne'er been depressed successful my life," she told Marie Claire. "It was like, ‘Does my ballot truly matter? Am I truly making a difference?’" she said. "I was truthful untethered to the halfway of what I judge due to the fact that I genuinely believed successful my psyche that the champion idiosyncratic wins. And past that happened, and I was like, ‘Oh, wait. The champion idiosyncratic doesn’t win.’"

Longoria noted successful the interrogation that she lived successful the U.S. for her "whole big life."

"But adjacent earlier [the pandemic], it was changing. The vibe was different. And past COVID happened, and it pushed it implicit the edge. Whether it’s the homelessness oregon the taxes, not that I privation to s--- on California — it conscionable feels similar this section successful my beingness is done now," she said.

In the months starring up to the 2024 statesmanlike election, galore celebrities proudly vocalized their opinions connected Trump. 

While immoderate showed support, others, including Sharon Stone, Cher and Barbra Streisand, person expressed their disapproval and adjacent threatened to permission the U.S. if helium were to beryllium elected.

Sharon Stone, Cher and Barbra Streisand person each expressed desires to permission the state aft Trump's victory.  (Getty images)

"I americium surely considering a location successful Italy," Stone told the Daily Mail successful July. "I deliberation that’s an intelligent conception astatine this time. This is 1 of the archetypal times successful my beingness that I’ve really seen anyone moving for bureau connected a level of hatred and oppression."

In a 2023 interrogation with The Guardian, Cher said, "I astir got an ulcer the past time. If helium gets in, who knows? This clip I volition permission [the country]."

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Streisand told big Stephen Colbert that she wouldn't beryllium capable to "live successful this state if helium becomes president," and admitted she'd astir apt determination to England. 

This thought of celebrities fleeing the state aft an predetermination is thing new, says Doug Eldridge, laminitis of Achilles PR.

"Every 4 years, you perceive the aforesaid recycled rhetoric from celebrities. It's go a moving gag astatine this point. It's ‘all talk, nary walk,’" Eldridge told Fox News Digital.

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Fox News Digital's Caroline Thayer contributed to this post.