Rosie O’Donnell spoke for the first time about the abuse she experienced at the hands of her father in a forthcoming book Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View. The comedian and talk-show host is one of the many familiar faces who agreed to be part of the book.
Speaking about being sexually abused by her father, Edward Joseph O’Donnell, Rosie told Variety magazine, “It started very young. And then when my mother died, it sort of ended in a weird way, because then he was with these five children to take care of. On the whole, it’s not something I like to talk about. Of course, it changes everyone. Any child who is put in that position, especially by someone in the family, you feel completely powerless and stuck, because the person you would tell is the person doing it.”
