Kids & Family
Rosie O'Donnell 'Smoked Weed,' Kicked Her Out, Angry Daughter Claims: Report
Chelsea O'Donnell says her mother kicked her out before incident where Barnegat man was arrested, report says.

Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter who went missing in August says O’Donnell kicked her out two weeks before she turned 18, so she went to stay with the boyfriend who was later arrested in connection with her disappearance, according to a report.
The Daily Mail reported that Chelsea O’Donnell, in a lengthy interview conducted in Barnegat, also said her mother has smoked marijuana in the family’s home, and that she put the care of Chelsea and her siblings in the hands of nannies.
Chelsea O’Donnell said in the interview that she was speaking out to expose what she said is Rosie O’Donnell’s hypocrisy and how the star puts on a very different public face from what she is like behind closed doors.
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On Aug. 18, the actress wrote online her daughter left the family’s house in Nyack, N.Y., with her 6-month-old therapy dog and had been missing for a week.
Chelsea was found safe in Barnegat Township just hours after O’Donnell announced her daughter went missing. The man she was found with, Steven Sheerer, had been convicted of heroin offenses.
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Chelsea had admitted at the time telling Sheerer, 25, that she was 19 when she met him through the dating app Tinder, police said.
Rosie O’Donnell, responding in an Entertainment Tonight segment, called the interview heartbreaking.
In the Daily Mail interview, Chelsea says Rosie spends a lot of time in what the daughter described as Rosie’s “arts and crafts house,” where the star paints and blasts music and keeps to herself. She also said Rosie smokes weed: “The whole house smells of it,” Chelsea said.
The lengthy interview details Chelsea’s battle with depression and anxiety, which she says started when Rosie divorced her first wife, and worsened when Chelsea was sent to boarding school at age 13.
“I wouldn’t say I’m mentally ill – I would say lots of people struggle with what I have,” she told the Daily Mail.
Charges that were filed against Sheerer in Chelsea’s disappearance and the no-contact order have been dropped, the Daily Mail reported.
Read the full interview here.
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