The Moment Fans Started Turning On Rosie O'Donnell

You totally know when crusading Rosie O'Donnell is in the room. She is loud and outspoken. Since 2006, she's had a running feud with once Twitter-mad Donald Trump. Her opinions are sometimes off-the-wall. She has claimed that the U.S. Government was involved in 9/11. Of the Iraq War, she has said it was the Americans who were the real terrorist. She once told a cancer survivor that people get the disease because they lie.

Rosie O'Donnell got her big break back in 1984 when she smashed it on TV's Star Search. Between 1996 and 2002 she did her own talk show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show. She even took home some Daytime Emmy Awards.

Then between 2006 and 2007, she moderated TV's The View. Let the fireworks begin.

Since then, she's done stints on Sirius Radio and fitted in a bit of acting. So, when did fans start to turn on Rosie O'Donnell? Let's go back five or six years and see when things went wrong.

Bad Vibes With Adopted Daughter Chelsea

Rosie has five adopted children. Now a widow (her wife Michelle Rounds committed suicide in 2015), she is doing the single parent thing. It hasn't always gone well. That's probably the understatement of the century.

The first sign of problems was in 2015 when her 17-year-old daughter Chelsea went missing. She was found a week later living at the home of an alleged addict. The problem was she was not yet "legal".

Rosie's PR machine cranked up fast and merely said Chelsea was mentally ill and had gone off her medication.

Cindi Berger, Rosie's representative said: “Chelsea, like millions of people, lives with mental illness. It has been a difficult road for Chelsea and her family and they just want her back safe. [Rosie and Chelsea] have a good relationship. Rosie loves Chelsea very much.” Rosie's camp also said that Chelsea had voluntarily moved out of Rosie's New York home and gone to live with her birth mother in Wisconsin. Said Berger: “Chelsea made a decision when she turned 18 that she wanted to go to her birth mother. This was her choice.” Yes, most people thought it sound a little fishy and contrived.

Surprise, Surprise. Chelsea's version of what was going on was just a tad bit different from Rosie's story.

Chelsea Fights Back

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Chelsea claimed that Rosie had kicked her out of her home two weeks before her 18th birthday. She claimed she had not left voluntarily.

“She told me to leave and take my dog,” Chelsea insisted. “Rosie knew I was planning to leave, that’s why I think she kicked me out. So she asked for my phone and my computer. This was hours before she told me to leave. I gave them to her. A few hours later, she told me to leave.”

Rosie's people merely said it was "heartbreaking on every level."

Then Chelsea did an interview with Inside Edition.

She said of Rosie: “I care about her and I hope she’s doing well. But love is a big word and I wouldn’t really use that.”

Then she added: “I miss the rest of my family a lot, but I think there is some much-needed space between me and Rosie. It’s been nice having that.” Chelsea also loudly protested that she was not mentally ill, as Rosie claimed. She said “Am I hurt for the things that have been said about me? So anyone [Rosie] speaking untruth about me personally and my life, led me to my own voice.” In other words, she had decided to speak out before of the "happy family" statements put out by Rosie, blaming all the problems on Chelsea's "mental illness". Chelsea's view was that her depression and anxiety were made worse by her relationship with her mother.

She added: “A part of my heart will always care for Rosie. Butt many things she has done to me over the past few months are unforgivable at the present."

Rosie just couldn't let it rest, calling her teenage children "horrible". She also said that one of her sons was threatening to write a memoir entitled Life With Mom: Not So Rosie.” Rosie was right p****d off.

Back comes Chelsea, to say she was pretty much raised by nannies and was closer to them than with Rosie. The nannies, she said, were nice people, implying Rosie wasn't.

Oh yes, 2015 was a bad year for Rosie O'Donnell.

Rosie and Chelsea seem to be getting along better these days. But it probably won't last. Too much water under the bridge as far as that mother-daughter relationship is concerned.

No, it's pretty clear that fans began to turn on Rosie back in 2015 when her public feud with Chelsea went viral and people began asking what the real Rosie O'Donnell was like.

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