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Rosie O’Donnell ‘Heartbroken’ Over Chelsea’s Claims, Chelsea Says Rosie Smokes Weed And Paints All Day [Video]

By Maat van Uitert
Published on: 01:17 PST, Oct 7, 2015

Rosie O’Donnell is “heartbroken” over comments that daughter Chelsea made during an interview with the Daily Mail and has responded to her daughter’s accusations. A rep for Rosie told Gossip Cop that her daughter’s “untrue comments” are “heartbreaking on every level.”

Chelsea recently broke the silence about her life with O’Donnell and shed light on why she ran away last August. During the interview, the younger O’Donnell had plenty to say about her celebrity mother, with whom she has been famously feuding for the past few months.

In her interview with the Daily Mail, the Chelsea accused Rosie of being a “phony” and assured the media that O’Donnell is a completely different person at home. Chelsea, who ran away from the O’Donnell home in New York last August, was later found in the apartment of a 25-year-old man, Steven Sheerer. Rosie’s daughter insists she did not leave the O’Donnell home willingly.

At the time of her disappearance, Rosie turned to the media to help find her daughter, alerting the public that “Chelsea, like millions of people, lives with mental illness…they just want her back safe,” reported People at the time.

Telling the Daily Mail that O’Donnell purchased a neighbor’s house to transform it into an art studio so she could allegedly smoke weed and paint all day, Chelsea asserts she was “pretty much raised by nannies,” accusing Rosie of neglectful and self-centered behavior. Although admitting her “nannies are great people,” Chelsea O’Donnell “would have liked to have my parents more in the picture raising me instead of nannies.”

“I never felt connected to [O’Donnell] and I never really enjoyed being around her,” Chelsea confessed to the Daily Mail.

According to Chelsea, however, she didn’t run away last August — Rosie O’Donnell kicked her out.

Rosie O’Donnell “told me to leave and take my dog,” Chelsea confided to the Daily Mail. “Rosie knew I was planning to leave, that’s why I think she kicked me out.” During the confrontation, Rosie allegedly asked Chelsea “to talk about what was going on and I didn’t want to. So [Rosie] asked for my phone and my computer. This was hours before she told me to leave. I gave them to her.”

Chelsea also said that hours after the confrontation, her mother “told me to leave. I wasn’t planning to go until I turned 18 on the 24th.”

As for the rumors of mental illness, Chelsea flat out denies them. Although she suffered from depression and anxiety in 2007 when Rosie O’Donnell divorced ex-wife Kelli Carpenter, the teen’s other adoptive mother, Chelsea says that it’s “really hurtful” that Rosie said she’s mentally ill, reports the Daily Mail.

“People think I’m this crazy person and as I’ve said, I have depression and bad anxiety — but it’s been something that’s gotten a lot better,” she said.

Chelsea confessed that “these were personal things and I didn’t want anyone to know them about me.” Even though Rosie O’Donnell insists her daughter is mentally ill, Chelsea says that “lots of people struggle with what I have.”

According to People, Sheerer is facing charges of “sending a then-minor Chelsea nude photos and endangering the welfare of a child,” but the teen admits she’s now living in a New Jersey apartment with the man. Chelsea O’Donnell insists that “everyone is putting out there he’s a bad guy from things that happened in the past but he’s not.”

According to Rosie’s daughter, her relationship with Sheerer, who she met on Tinder, is solid, admitting that he “supports me and I love him. He’s not into anything bad now, he works hard.”

Despite the “heartbreak” of her public feud with Chelsea, O’Donnell reportedly is still trying to connect with her daughter. The teen admitted that her mother is still talking to her, although Rosie O’Donnell asks “if Steve is keeping me here and not letting me leave, which is not the case. I’m really happy to be here, and happier than I’ve been in years,” reports the Daily Mail.

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