Rosie O’Donnell Particulars Difficult Relationship with Daughter Chelsea

Shared to her private weblog April 6, the poem revealed that Chelsea plans to tackle her delivery mom’s maiden title, a call Rosie says she finds exhausting to grasp however finally respects.

“she needs to alter her final title/ to her delivery mothers maiden title/ would not make sense to me/ I’m not her,” Rosie wrote, reflecting on the ache of the separation. She additionally opened up in regards to the tough recollections of when Chelsea went lacking from their New York dwelling in 2015 and later moved in together with her organic mom, Deanna Neuens, in Wisconsin.

Rosie went on to clarify that regardless of their strained previous, she stays pleased with Chelsea’s restoration journey.

“Her restoration – her journey is her personal,” she wrote. “I am pleased with her/ dwelling her reality/ I respect her wishes/ her struggles, her success/ her proper to outline herself.”

The poem additionally acknowledged the position of Chelsea’s “3 mothers” — Rosie, her then-partner Kelli Carpenter, and her organic mother — stating that each adoption story is difficult and layered.

“A primal wound/ typically would not heal,” Rosie admitted. She additionally added that Chelsea, now practically 28, deserves privateness and a life away from the highlight.

Regardless of her advanced emotions surrounding the title change, Rosie mentioned she has no exhausting emotions about it, noting that whereas they could now not share the identical final title, Chelsea will at all times be “her woman,” it doesn’t matter what.

The poem comes amid new that Chelsea, who Rosie adopted as a child, filed for a authorized title change on January 30, in keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by PEOPLE.

The 27-year-old is at the moment residing in a sober dwelling facility in Wisconsin, the place she is dealing with an extended and tough battle with drug habit, to not point out a string of latest arrests.

It is also been reported that Rosie, 63, eliminated Chelsea from her will shortly earlier than the title change request was made.

It additionally comes after, in September 2024, Chelsea was arrested on felony youngster neglect and drug possession expenses. A month later, she discovered herself behind bars once more for comparable offenses. And in November 2024, she was arrested a 3rd time on a number of felony expenses associated to methamphetamine and narcotic possession.

Following her second arrest, O’Donnell posted an image of her daughter holding her child throughout a “higher time,” accompanied by a heart-wrenching caption: “Sadly this isn’t new for our household — Chelsea has struggled with drug habit for a decade. We’re all hopeful she’s going to discover her method out of this lethal illness.”

In March 2025, Chelsea was sentenced to 6 years of probation, with strict circumstances together with sobriety and no contact with recognized drug customers.

Their up and down relationship hasn’t at all times been strained, nevertheless, with Rosie and Chelsea reconnecting after a interval of estrangement in 2018 when Chelsea discovered she was pregnant together with her first youngster, Skylar Rose.

Since then, Chelsea has had three extra youngsters — daughters Riley (born January 2021) and Avery Lynn (born February 2022), and son Atlas (born October 2023), with Rosie remaining hopeful that they’ll reunite as a household in the future.