Rosie O’Donnell calls addiction a ‘killing disease’ after daughter’s drug-related arrest

Rosie O’Donnell has spoken out following her daughter’s arrest on charges of child neglect and drug possession.

Chelsea O’Donnell, a 27-year-old mother of four, was arrested last month in Wisconsin 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 maintaining a drug trafficking place — as well as various drug offenses, according to court documents reviewed by The Times.

After an initial release on $2,000 bond, Chelsea was charged again earlier this month in Oconto County with additional drug and bail jumping charges, according to an Oct. 14 court document. He is due in court on November 4 and 7 (once in each county).

After reporting on her eldest daughter’s arrest, Rosie posted a statement alongside a photo of Chelsea “from a better time”.

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“Sadly, this is not new for our family,” the former talk show host said, adding that his daughter “has struggled with drug addiction for a decade.”

“We are all waiting for him to find a way out of this deadly disease,” he said.

While Rosie’s co-stars, including “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” are co-hosts Michelle Visage and “Rizzoli & Isles” alum. Angie Harmon sent “lots of love” and well wishes for Chelsea’s recovery, others in the comments section criticized Rosie’s parenting along with her. vocal opposition to the candidacy of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

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

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Another invoked the former president more directly, writing“You might want to ask DJT how he raised 5 smart, respectful, healthy, loving children.” (Rosie O’Donnell and Trump they have had a full history for years.)

Rosie’s highly publicized relationship with her daughter fluctuated throughout Chelsea’s teenage and early adult years.

In 2015, Chelsea ran away from Rosie’s house in New York with her therapy dog. The situation was particularly dangerous, Rosie’s publicist said 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 went to live with her birth mother in Wisconsin.

Years after the incident, Chelsea alleged DailyMail that Rosie was “verbally abusive” during her childhood and that the two were currently separated. The comedian called his daughter’s comments “unfounded, false, and desperate.”

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“(Chelsea) has been in and out of hospitals most of her life,” Rosie said, adding that “being born addicted to heroin” and growing up “very sick” made her “not able to truth or reason”.

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

“It’s better now and we’re both communicating with each other,” Rosie said that year while hosting “The Talk.”

“When someone does something unforgivable to you and you can forgive them and they can forgive you, there’s a kind of grace that descends on both of them,” he said, adding that their relationship had been strengthened by their setbacks.

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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.