Rosie O’Donnell ‘cut daughter from $80,000,000 estate’ days before fleeing US over Trump
Their relationship is famously fraught.
Rosie O’Donnell has fled Donald Trump’s USA with her 12-year-old Clay, leaving behind the rest of her family including her daughter Chelsea, who she has now reportedly cut out of her will.
Clay is the youngest of the comedian’s five adopted children – Parker, 29, Blake, 25, and daughters Chelsea, 27, Vivienne, 22.
After O’Donnell opened about the health benefits of relocating to Ireland from the US, it has now been reported The View host, 63, cut her daughter out of her ‘$80,000,000’ estate in the days before she left.
‘Chelsea really didn’t care that Rosie wrote her out,’ a source told the Daily Mail.
‘I mean who wouldn’t want to have access to millions? But for Chelsea it is not about the money, it’s about feeling wanted and loved.
‘And that’s something she feels she has never really had from Rosie.
O’Donnell recently fled the US in protest of Trump’s re-election (Picture: MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)‘Money is what allowed for Rosie to send her away to six or seven boarding schools during her lifetime.
‘Rich people can pay someone else to raise their kids. Middle- or lower-class parents actually have to be parents, they can’t ship their kids off at the first sign of trouble,’ the source added.
Chelsea has now gone to court with a petition to change her name to her birth mother’s, the publication reports.
O’Donnell’s representative pointed the outlet to a 30-stanza Substack poem the comedian wrote about her daughter on April 6 – titled simply ‘my child chelsea’, written without capital letters.
She added they would not be making a further comment.
According to documents obtained by the publication, O’Donnell cut Chelsea out of two separate trusts on January 6, days before the TV star left the country in protest of Trump’s re-election.
