Rosie O’Donnell made a statement amid news of her daughter Chelsea’s arrest on October 14 in Wisconsin.
The 62-year-old media personality, whose son Blake married in August, took to Instagram on Saturday with a photo of Chelsea, 27, and her one-year-old son Atlas.
O’Donnell’s oldest daughter was charged with child neglect after police found her 11-month-old son in a house filled with meth pipes, feces and trash.
In the caption to his followers, he said: “Chelsea is in the news today; this is a photo from a better time; here’s the familiar comment:
“Sadly, this is not new to our family: Chelsea has battled drug addiction for a decade; we are all hopeful that she will find a way out of this deadly disease.”
Rosie O’Donnell made a statement amid news of her daughter Chelsea’s arrest on October 14 in Wisconsin.
The 62-year-old media personality took to Instagram on Saturday with a photo of Chelsea, 27, and her almost one-year-old son Atlas.
The longtime comedian added a broken heart emoji and ‘#love #alanon 10.19.24.’
Chelsea has been charged with four felonies for maintaining a drug trafficking place, child neglect, possession of methamphetamine and possession of THC.
Chelsea herself called police to her home in Marinette, Wisconsin, on September 10, court documents obtained by In contact revealed.
The 911 operator reported hearing an argument in the background and a woman telling someone to “get away from her.”
When the police arrived, Chelsea allegedly tried to downplay the situation, insisting that everything was fine before later admitting that she and her boyfriend Jacob Nelund had had an argument.
“I tried to ask her more questions and it was clear that Chelsea was not being honest at all. “This was a repeat of what happened a few weeks earlier when I was at her home for a similar incident,” a police officer wrote in a report. .
Among the items in his home, officers found a methamphetamine pipe with residue inside.
A box of hypodermic needles was apparently found in the child’s room.
O’Donnell’s oldest daughter was charged with child neglect after police found her 11-month-old son in a house filled with meth pipes, feces and trash.
Rosie and Chelsea photographed in June 2016
Chelsea was adopted by Rosie and her ex-wife Kelli Carpenter when she was just a baby, but moved out of the family home when she was 18 in 2016; The family appears in 2010 with their children Vivienne, Chelsea, Blake and Parker.
O’Donnell has had a tumultuous relationship with Chelsea over the years.
She and her ex-wife Kelli Carpenter adopted Chelsea when she was a baby. She left the family home in 2016 at age 18 and moved to Wisconsin to be near her birth mother.
“Chelsea is mentally ill,” Rosie told the Daily Mail in 2017. “(She) has been in and out of hospitals for most of her life. She was born addicted to heroin. She’s had a tough road. She’s very sick. She is not capable of truth or reason.
He has four children: daughter Skylar Rose, five, Riley, three, Avery Lynn, two, and Atlas.