After years of public feuding, Rosie O’Donnell has turned her back on her wayward daughter one final time, cutting her out of her $80 million estate, DailyMail.com can reveal exclusively.
The one-time talk titan made the decision just days before she left the United States to start a new life in Ireland.
And in retaliation Chelsea O’Donnell went to court herself to petition to change her last name back to her birth mother Deanna Micoley’s maiden name, Neuens.
‘Chelsea really didn’t care that Rosie wrote her out,’ a source told DailyMail.com.
‘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.
Rosie O’Donnell, 63, has cut her wayward daughter Chelsea, 27, out of her $80million estate days before fleeing the arrest in protest of President Donald Trump
Chelsea’s birth mother Deanna Micoley holding a photo of her as a baby before she gave her up for adoption. The two reunited in 2015 and Deanna was the one to bail her out of jail in November 2024
In retaliation, Chelsea went to court herself to petition to change her last name back to her birth mother Micoley’s maiden name, Neuens
‘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, the second of the star’s five adopted children, is currently in a sober living facility in Marinette, Wisconsin, and could not be contacted for comment.
Rosie’s representative pointed DailyMail.com to a 30-stanza poem that Rosie posted on Substack over the weekend, but said she would have no further comment.
The free-verse poem, written almost entirely without capital letters and entitled ‘my child chelsea’ did not mention cutting her daughter off financially but did mention the name change.
‘she wishes to change her last name/to her birth moms maiden name/doesn’t make sense to me/ I am not her,’ Rosie wrote.
Rosie signed her drug-riddled daughter out of the will 11 days before she left the country in protest at Donald Trump’s re-election as president
Chelsea is currently in a sober living facility in Marinette, Wisconsin, and could not be contacted for comment
Rosie with her five adopted children Chelsea, Blake, Vivienne, Parker and Dakota O’Donnell
Chelsea and Rosie have long had a contentious relationship, which the former co-host of The View has put down to her daughter being ‘born addicted to heroin’
At another point, she wrote: ‘i wish i could delete my fame/for her/to make life easier/has been my goal from the beginning/but maybe that is untenable.’
She pleaded guilty to a string of felonies and misdemeanors including drug and child neglect charges in a Wisconsin courtroom on March 31 and was sentenced to 6-years-probation, with strict terms and conditions.
If she violates her probation she could face several years in state prison.
Chelsea, 27, and Rosie, 63, have long had a contentious relationship, which the former co-host of The View has put down to her daughter being ‘born addicted to heroin’.
‘She has had a tough road,’ Rosie said in 2017 after Chelsea had given an interview to DailyMail.com in which she claimed her mother had threatened to hit her with a wine bottle because she had gotten a tattoo.
‘Chelsea is mentally ill. Has been in and out of hospitals most of her life,’ Rosie added.
‘She is very sick. She is not capable of truth or reason.’
At the time, Chelsea said she was pregnant and insisted that Rosie ‘would not be in my son’s life’.
‘And no, I do not feel sad about that to be honest,’ she added. In the end she miscarried.
But she now has four children, the youngest of whom is 18 months old and living in foster care. The other three are living with their father.
Rosie O’Donnell’s estranged daughter Chelsea was sentenced on March 31 to six years probation after being arrested on multiple drug charges
Chelsea O’Donnell was most recently arrested on November 18, following previous arrests on September 10 (left) October 11 (right) in connection with allegations of drug-related offenses
Rosie specifically cut Chelsea out of her estate in the documents. They state she has $27 million in life insurance twhich means Chelsea would miss out on $5.4 million from that source alone
And now, following Chelsea’s three arrests in as many months, Rosie has decided enough is enough.
According to documents exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, Rosie cut Chelsea out of two separate trusts on January 6, just 11 days before she left the country in protest at Donald Trump’s re-election as president.
‘At the time of the execution of this indenture, the donor’s children are Parker O’Donnell, Chelsea O’Donnell (‘Chelsea’), Blake O’Donnell, Vivienne Rose O’Donnell and Dakota O’Donnell,’ one of the trust documents reads.
‘However for all purposes of this indenture, the terms of ‘the donor’s children,’ ‘child of the donor,’ ‘issue of the donor’ and any term of like import shall not include Chelsea or any issue of Chelsea,’ it adds, making clear that her grandchildren are also out.
The documents state that Rosie has $27 million in life insurance, which means Chelsea is missing out on more $5.4 million from that source alone.
DailyMail.com understands that Rosie sent Chelsea a copy of the documents so she would know for sure that she would not inherit any of her fortune, which Celebrity Net Worth estimates at $80 million.
Chelsea’s youngest child is in foster care, while her three other children live with their father
Then on January 30, Chelsea filed papers in court in Wisconsin where she now lives asking for the name change.
On the form submitting the request she filled in the reason for wanting the name change as ‘Adoption/family name’.
Rosie has been forthright about her problems raising her children.
‘My teenagers are a nightmare, they’re horrible,’ she joked in 2016.
‘I had four teenagers when I decided to adopt a newborn baby. You might ask why. Because I had four teenagers and I needed to remind myself that I actually do love children.’
Rosie’s decision to move to Ireland with her youngest, Dakota, 12 – who is non-binary and goes by the name Clay – came after Trump’s election. They are living close to U2 drummer Larry Mullen and Oscar-nominated actor Brendan Gleason in an upmarket area, 20 minutes from the center of Dublin.
Rosie O’Donnell was spotted in Dublin for the first time since she fled the United States for Ireland in January this year
Chelsea said her adopted mom cared more ‘about the Menendez brothers than me’ and that she did nothing to help her get out of prison
She said she plans to take out Irish citizenship but may return to the United States ‘when it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights’.
‘I miss my other kids. I miss my friends. I miss many things about life there at home, and I’m trying to find a home here in this beautiful country,’ she said from her new homeland.
‘It’s been pretty wonderful, I have to say. The people are so loving and so kind, so welcoming. And I’m very grateful.’
But Chelsea’s feelings for the woman who adopted her are far from loving and kind.
‘Rosie cares more about the Menendez brothers than me,’ she said after she was arrested last year. She claimed Rosie did nothing to help her but had expressed support for the killer California brothers’ release from prison.
She was first arrested in September on charges including child neglect and possessing methamphetamine.
Rosie posed for a selfie behind the wheel of a car in Ireland on March 7 while mentioning how she’s having a difficult time driving on a different side of the road
She was released but re-arrested the following month for felonies including bail jumping, obstructing an officer and another meth charge.
In November, she was arrested again. She was sentenced to six years’ probation on March 31. The terms include abstaining from alcohol or drugs, no contact with known drug users and she was banned from having firearms.
She also has to obtain a high school diploma or GED and complete a mental health evaluation.
The source said that Chelsea is finally taking responsibility for her actions, but no one will ever know what she went through as a child.
‘Chelsea turned to drugs to cope in life, it is not an excuse it just happened that way,’ the source said.
‘I do not think it is uncommon for most adopted children to have abandonment issues. Then to be shipped away to some troubled youth facility masked as a “boarding school” only further complicates the issue.
‘It’s not an excuse but she turned to drugs to mask her pain, of her feeling of not being wanted.
Chelsea and Rosie last spoke in December. ‘Chelsea has put Rosie in her rear-view mirror,’ said the source.
