Posted on 10/06/2015 12:17:09 PM PDT by simpson96
Chelsea O'Donnell has spoken for the first time about what it was like to grow up as Rosie's daughter and what really happened in the days she was reported missing by her 'frantic' mother last August in an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online.
The 18-year-old reveals how Rosie's public persona is 'phony' and has little to do with her life behind closed doors.
She spoke out to disclose what she sees as O'Donnell's hypocrisy - that when she's out and about her bubbly and engaging personality is belied by the way she is at home.
Chelsea said: 'I find her not genuine a lot of the time. When we'd go out, she was a completely different person in public than at home and I had a hard time with that. It's like two different people.'
She also spoke to deny the star's public claims - made through O'Donnell's own social media accounts and apparently to the police - that she had run away from home and instead said Rosie had kicked her out two weeks before her 18th birthday.
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Chelsea said: 'Our dinners were mostly ordering in pizza or Chinese food because nobody could really cook except for my other mom, Kelli [Carpenter, Rosie's first ex-wife].
'Rosie would eat takeout with us and if there were cookies in the house, she would eat them all. She was always coming into our rooms and asking if we had candy.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Since Rosie is a slobby, disgusting, uncouth, loudmouthed sow in public, it’s hard to imagine her being even worse in private
I am not surprised at all. Her public mask has slipped enough times to know who she is “at home.” Poor kids.
It seems like this girl is fairly normal in that being ignored by her “mother” hurt her and being adopted and lied to about the circumstances destroyed her trust.
It’s not unusual in dysfunctional families for one kid to be the “bad one”. Being sent away for such a long period of time will have consequences that the parent may not anticipate.
She is not vindictive or viscous in this article even if she does mention some typical teen criticisms. I think she comes off as genuine and kind of sweet. She was abandoned by one family, shoved into another with revolving caretakers, and she’s working through it.
Her goals are realistic, she loves her siblings, and she’s very gentle in her criticism when you think about it.
At that age, I would have been furious at being twice abandoned and having my adoptive mother lie about me to the press. Anxiety and depression seem situational in this circumstance - not evidence of mental illness.
Wait. Rosie’s public persona was the bubbly and engaging one? The mind boggles.
This has all the potential to be dissolving into Mommie Dearest II ..The Rainbow Years.
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I dislike Rosey, but as the mom of an adopted son with emotional problems, I wouldn’t take everything said here as the complete truth. She could be exaggerating or cherry picking the bad stuff.
For example, she complains about no cooking, but most of us learned to cook by age 12. So what was stopping her from reading and following a cookbook?
Adopted children often have “rejection” issues. This girl not only was “rejected” by her birth parents, but Rosie divorced a woman who was probably the emotional mom for the young girl.
So instead of seeing these things as “shit happens”, they see them as more rejection, “I am bad”...but one way to cope with “I am bad” is to project the emotion on a scapegoat. In this case, Rosie.
Looks like Trump was right when responding to Megan Kelly’s question in the first debate. Interesting how the “truth will set yo free”.
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