Rosie O’Donnell Particulars Sophisticated Relationship with Daughter Chelsea

Shared to her private weblog April 6, the poem revealed that Chelsea plans to tackle her delivery mom’s maiden identify, a choice Rosie says she finds exhausting to know however in the end respects.

“she needs to alter her final identify/ to her delivery mothers maiden identify/ does 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 troublesome recollections of when Chelsea went lacking from their New York house in 2015 and later moved in along with her organic mom, Deanna Neuens, in Wisconsin.

Rosie went on to elucidate 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/ residing 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 sophisticated and layered.

“A primal wound/ typically does 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 identify change, Rosie stated she has no exhausting emotions about it, noting that whereas they could not share the identical final identify, Chelsea will all the time be “her lady,” it doesn’t matter what.

The poem comes amid new that Chelsea, who Rosie adopted as a child, filed for a authorized identify change on January 30, in response to courtroom paperwork obtained by PEOPLE.

The 27-year-old is presently residing in a sober residing facility in Wisconsin, the place she is dealing with an extended and troublesome battle with drug dependancy, 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 identify change request was made.

It additionally comes after, in September 2024, Chelsea was arrested on felony baby neglect and drug possession prices. A month later, she discovered herself behind bars once more for related offenses. And in November 2024, she was arrested a 3rd time on a number of felony prices 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 dependancy for a decade. We’re all hopeful she’s going to discover her means 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 all the time been strained, nonetheless, with Rosie and Chelsea reconnecting after a interval of estrangement in 2018 when Chelsea came upon she was pregnant along with her first baby, 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 will reunite as a household someday.