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Rosie O'Donnell's daughter arrested for drug abuse and neglect


Rosie O'Donnell's daughter arrested for drug abuse and neglect

Rosie O'Donnell speaks out after her daughter's arrest on child neglect and drug possession charges.

Chelsea O'Donnell, a 27-year-old mother of four, was arrested in Wisconsin last month after police executed a search warrant. She was booked into the Marinette County Jail and charged with multiple felonies — child neglect, possession of methamphetamine and operating a drug trafficking establishment — as well as several drug offenses, according to court documents reviewed by The Times.

After initially being released on a $2,000 bond, Chelsea was re-arraigned in Oconto County earlier this month on additional drug and bail jumping charges, according to an Oct. 14 court filing. She is scheduled to appear in court on November 4th and 7th (once in each district).

After reporting on her eldest daughter's arrest, Rosie released a statement along with a photo of Chelsea “from a better time.”

“Unfortunately, this is nothing new for our family,” the former talk show host said, adding that her daughter has “struggled with drug addiction for a decade.”

“We all hope she finds a way out of this deadly disease,” she said.

While Rosie's colleagues, including RuPaul's Drag Race, are co-hosts Michelle Visage and “Rizzoli & Isles” alum Angie Harmon While Rosie sent “lots of love” and wishes for Chelsea's recovery, others in the comments section joined her in criticizing Rosie's parenting behavior loud resistance on the candidacy of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“Maybe focus on your own family instead of telling people who to vote for.” wrote one user.

Another invoked the former president more directly: Write“You may want to ask DJT how he raised five intelligent, respectful, healthy and loving children.” (Rosie O'Donnell and Trump have an eventful history behind them for years.)

Rosie's high-profile relationship with her daughter fluctuated throughout Chelsea's teenage and early adult years.

In 2015, Chelsea ran away from Rosie's New York home with her therapy dog. The situation was particularly dangerous, said Rosie's publicist at the time, because the “mentally ill” 17-year-old had stopped taking her medication. TThe Times previously reported. A week later, both Chelsea and the dog were found “safe and unharmed on the Jersey Shore.” Soon after, Chelsea moved to Wisconsin to live with her birth mother.

Years after the incident, Chelsea claimed to have done so DailyMail that Rosie was “verbally abusive” in her childhood and that the two are currently estranged. The comedian described her daughter's comments as “baseless – untrue – and desperate”.

“(Chelsea) has been in and out of hospitals most of her life,” Rosie said, adding that she was “incapable of truth or reason” because she was “born addicted to heroin” and grew up “very sick.”

The Emmy-winning TV personality reconnected with her daughter in 2018 after Chelsea gave birth to her first child.

“She’s doing better now and we’re both communicating,” Rosie said that year when she guest-hosted “The Talk.”

“When someone does something unforgivable to you and you can forgive them and they can forgive you, then there's a kind of grace that comes down to both of you,” she said, adding that their relationship has been strengthened by the setbacks.

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