Rosie O’Donnell’s daughter Chelsea O’Donnell has filed to vary her title following her a number of arrests final yr.
Chelsea, 27, submitted paperwork to legally change her title in accordance with courtroom information seen by Us Weekly on Thursday, April 10. The request was made in late January and a listening to is scheduled for Might of this yr.
The Every day Mail was first to interrupt the information. The outlet reported that Chelsea desires to vary her final title again to her delivery mom’s maiden title, which is Neuens. (Rosie adopted Chelsea as a child in 1997.)
Us has reached out to Rosie for remark.
Rosie O’Donnell hasn’t shied away from publicly discussing the challenges her daughter Chelsea O’Donnell has confronted through the years. After Chelsea was arrested in November 2024 for the third time in as many months, Rosie took to Instagram to deal with her daughter’s authorized troubles. “So sure that is true – after being bailed out by […]
Rosie, 63, and Chelsea have had their justifiable share of ups and downs through the years. The actress lately shared a prolonged poem by way of her Substack web page that was titled “My Daughter Chelsea.”
“She desires her privateness / I’m her mother / The story is on the market / Folks choose and ask / Why didn’t u attempt extra … / U ought to have carried out one thing else … / I might by no means have … / if she have been mine,” the poem learn.
The piece additionally talked about that Chelsea had two further mom figures, her delivery mom and Rosie’s ex-wife, Kelli Carpenter.
Chelsea Belle O’Donnell, Rosie O’Donnell Courtesy of Rosie O’Donnell/Instagram
“Each adoption story is sophisticated / Nuance and subtext / A primal wound / Typically doesn’t heal / Her story is her personal to inform / And now — nearly 28 years outdated / She desires a non-public life / She deserves one too,” the poem continued.
Rosie additionally referred to Chelsea’s authorized hassle and her daughter’s struggles with substance abuse. (Chelsea was arrested 3 times in 2024 on a number of felony costs, together with drug possession. In December 2024, Chelsea was ordered to take care of her sobriety whereas out on bail.)
“Her journey / Made public by a sequence of dangerous choices / On everybody’s half / When she was a younger teen,” Rosie’s piece reads. “Some issues are laborious to return again from / Why don’t u speak about her extra / How can I / What would I say.”
Rosie O’Donnell has damaged her silence on her daughter Chelsea O’Donnell’s third arrest. “So sure that is true,” the actress, 62, wrote by way of Instagram on Tuesday, December 3, alongside a screenshot of a reporter reaching out by way of e-mail for touch upon Chelsea’s current arrest. “After being bailed out by her delivery mom — Chelsea was […]
Rosie — who can also be mother to Parker, 29, Blake, 25, Vivienne, 22, and Clay, 12 — shared that Chelsea wished to vary her final title to “her delivery mother’s maiden title.” Whereas the choice doesn’t “make sense” to Rosie, she vowed to stay supportive of her daughter.
“It’s not about me / I’m right here for her — She’s not right here for me / A sensible lady as soon as stated / A couple of months in the past / A choose in Wisconsin / Instructed her he was pleased with her / She had accomplished therapy,” she penned.
Rosie additionally applauded Chelsea for incomes her highschool diploma and being on the trail towards restoration. The League of Our Personal star revealed that Chelsea gave her permission to publicly share the poem and included a photograph of her daughter smiling whereas in courtroom.
