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Rosie O'Donnell: Shocking Revelations in New Book
Fox News ^ | September 12, 2007 | Roger Friedman

Posted on 09/12/2007 8:31:39 PM PDT by yorkie

Rosie O’Donnell used to break her own limbs with either a baseball bat or a wooden hanger when she was a child.

This revelation, as well as many about her experiences on "The View" last year, is contained in a new book she’s written due shortly called “Celebrity Detox.”

This personal memory, so shocking, is almost thrown toward the end of what is better described as a long essay than a short memoir. [snip] She broke her own bones, she recalls, “my hands and fingers usually. No one knew. It was a secret.” She used a Mets baseball bat she got on bat day or the hanger. Why? It was “proof I had some value, enough to be fixed.” She recalls that she was no longer sad about her mother’s death, but “distracted.”

Rosie also dangles another clue about her childhood in two sentences. “There were many benefits to having a cast. In the middle of the night, it was a weapon.”

Why she would need a weapon in the middle of the night is not addressed.

Most of “Celebrity Detox,” which a source supplied to me Tuesday, is about Rosie’s life — her mother, her kids, her life before and after "The View."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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To: yorkie

I didn’t need any more proof that she’s a lunatic.


61 posted on 09/12/2007 10:21:51 PM PDT by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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To: yorkie

Basing her statements on the “liberals always state things backwards” concept, here is my take.

“I was a young girl with a bunch of older brothers and I was spoiled as could be. When I couldn’t get my way, I hit my brothers with a bat or wooden hangar, or anything handy.”


62 posted on 09/12/2007 10:22:51 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (((Wi arr mi kidz faling skool ?)))
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To: yorkie

Not quite, but it is destructive behavior. Self abuse, not Munchausen.


63 posted on 09/12/2007 10:26:15 PM PDT by television is just wrong (deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END Welfare)
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To: yorkie
“There were many benefits to having a cast. In the middle of the night, it was a weapon.”

She could use it to break the plastic on a package of Hostess Cup Cakes.

64 posted on 09/12/2007 10:37:58 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: UCANSEE2

My guess:

1. She used the Mets bat on her face. A lot.

2. The late night weapon was not to protect her from sexual abuse - in fact it was used to keep her latest conquest unconscious (thank God) in the bedroom.


65 posted on 09/12/2007 10:38:09 PM PDT by Stallone (Free Republic - The largest collection of volunteer Freedom Fighters the world has ever known)
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To: yorkie

Considering her warped views it would be more shocking to hear she bathes regularly, or does other such normal things.


66 posted on 09/12/2007 10:49:00 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Some people do not bathe (or shampoo) on a regular basis, it seems. You can usually tell by the oily, dull, lackluster film on the hair, and the way it separates into strands.

Cindy Sheehan is another one that comes to mind.


67 posted on 09/12/2007 10:54:08 PM PDT by yorkie
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To: yorkie
whoa, she was born this way??

not gay, I mean a MORON

68 posted on 09/12/2007 11:01:58 PM PDT by GeronL (Wal-Mart Respect Enforcement Department)
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To: yorkie

What a psycho sicko and she’s never going to get much better. Back then she inflicted damage on herself. These days she takes out her self loathing on others. Such as Elizabeth Hasselbeck


69 posted on 09/12/2007 11:05:30 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: BunnySlippers

Exactly. With medical records privacy anyone can make any claim and there is no way to independently verify it.


70 posted on 09/12/2007 11:17:58 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken (Seldom right but never in doubt)
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To: yorkie

And she qualified to adopt children....very very interesting.


71 posted on 09/12/2007 11:20:25 PM PDT by NordP (HUNTER: "The real question for Mexico--Why are your people crossing burning deserts to get away?")
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To: NordP
Guess money does talk, even at the expense of innocent children.....
72 posted on 09/12/2007 11:36:22 PM PDT by yorkie
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To: yorkie

So sad - pray for her children....pray a lot.


73 posted on 09/12/2007 11:39:47 PM PDT by NordP (HUNTER: "The real question for Mexico--Why are your people crossing burning deserts to get away?")
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To: All
I'm not saying Rosie couldn't overcome many of her issues from the past, but since:

a) "default settings" typically win out as a rule with most gut level actions; and

b) she's played her "victim card" one too many times...

I JUST don't see her being a very healthy role model.

74 posted on 09/12/2007 11:43:30 PM PDT by NordP (HUNTER: "The real question for Mexico--Why are your people crossing burning deserts to get away?")
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To: yorkie

I new she was a nutjob.


75 posted on 09/13/2007 12:36:42 AM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: yorkie
"“There were many benefits to having a cast. In the middle of the night, it was a weapon.”

Why she would need a weapon in the middle of the night is not addressed.

Wasn't it already established that she had a Mets bat? That's a way better weapon, IMHO.

76 posted on 09/13/2007 1:50:52 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: All

Rosie’s Success, and Failure: A Post-Mortem, or, “America, Say Goodbye to Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1823102/posts


77 posted on 09/13/2007 2:14:39 AM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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To: yorkie
She broke her own bones, she recalls, “my hands and fingers usually. No one knew. It was a secret.” She used a Mets baseball bat she got on bat day or the hanger. Why? It was “proof I had some value, enough to be fixed.”

Did anyone ever get around to taking her to the vet?

78 posted on 09/13/2007 2:23:01 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee ("Norman Hsu:" Chinese for "Abramoff")
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To: Loud Mime

Sounds like she’s implying her father came after her, which I don’t believe. How pathetic she’d smear her own father for some attention.


79 posted on 09/13/2007 2:44:04 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: yorkie

We will find out that she self circumsized herself which will be her explanation to her life of misery.


80 posted on 09/13/2007 2:50:36 AM PDT by mmanager (Fred instead of Purebred, Crossbred and the Hothead)
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