Rosie O’Donnell has publicly responded after her daughter Chelsea’s probation was revoked and she was sentenced to prison.

The comedian asked her followers for 'prayers' and expressed her heartbreak over her child’s struggle with addiction.

Chelsea, 28, was previously placed on six years of probation but violated the terms, prompting the court to impose a prison sentence.

Charges, probation, and the sentence

Chelsea, who was adopted by Rosie as a baby, faced multiple felony and misdemeanor charges after a series of arrests between September and November 2024 in Wisconsin.

Those charges included possession of methamphetamine, bail jumping, resisting or obstructing an officer, and child neglect.

She pled guilty in February to three counts: one felony count of meth possession, one count of resisting or obstructing an officer, and one count of bail jumping.

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Initially, in March 2025, she was sentenced to six years of probation (two years for each count).

Additional misdemeanor charges, including drug paraphernalia and narcotic possession, were dismissed.

On October 22, 2025, a court revoked her probation and ordered her to serve prison time for violating the probation terms.

She had been part of the Marinette County Treatment Drug Court Program, but was removed from the program before revocation.

Rosie’s reaction and public plea

On October 29, O’Donnell shared an old photo of Chelsea and wrote on Instagram: “My child Chelsea Belle — before addiction took over her life — I loved her then I love her now as she faces a scary future — prayers welcomed.”

In a statement to PEOPLE, O'Donnell added: “I have compassion for those struggling with addiction — Chelsea was born into addiction and it has been a painful journey for her and her four young children.

"We continue to love and support her through these horrible times.

"Prayers welcomed.”

The post quickly gained traction, with followers offering support and urging compassion over judgment.

What’s next for Chelsea and Rosie O'Donnell?

Chelsea is expected to report to prison following the October ruling.

Her legal team may consider appeals or motions, but the sentence marks a turning point in her criminal case.

Rosie, who now lives in Ireland with her youngest, continues to call for privacy for her family, while also raising awareness about addiction and second chances.

If you or someone you know is battling addiction, please reach out for help and contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA's) National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (1-800-662-4357) or go to https://findtreatment.gov/

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The decades-long feud between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell escalated once again this weekend, after the POTUS publicly declared he is giving “serious consideration” to revoking the comedian’s US citizenship — an unprecedented threat that drew immediate backlash and a blistering response from O’Donnell.

Posting to Truth Social on Saturday, Trump called O'Donnell a “Threat to Humanity” and suggested she should stay in Ireland, where she has lived since January.

“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

Trump’s threat — legally impossible, given that US citizens cannot be stripped of their citizenship by presidential order — follows O’Donnell’s move to the Dublin suburb of Howth with her 12-year-old child, who is non-binary and autistic. She has stated the decision to leave came after Trump’s 2024 election victory over Kamala Harris, and her move coincided with Trump's second inauguration.

O'Donnell: “You Lie, You Steal, You Degrade”

O’Donnell wasted no time firing back in a string of social media posts, some featuring images of Trump with Jeffrey Epstein. “Hey Donald – you’re rattled again?” she wrote. “18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.”

Calling him a “dangerous old soulless man,” O'Donnell unleashed a direct rebuke: “You call me a threat to humanity – but I’m everything you fear: a loud woman, a queer woman. A mother who tells the truth. An American who got out of the country b4 u set it ablaze.”

“You crave loyalty – I teach my children to question power,” she continued. “You sell fear on golf courses – I make art about surviving trauma. You lie, you steal, you degrade – I nurture, I create, I persist. You are everything that is wrong with America… I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”

A Feud That Won’t Die

Trump and O’Donnell’s public animosity dates back to 2006, when O’Donnell criticized Trump’s handling of a Miss USA controversy during her time on The View, accusing him of being a “snake-oil salesman” and mocking his personal life.

Trump quickly retaliated. In an interview with The Insider, he called her “disgusting both inside and out,” saying, “You take a look at her, she’s a slob. She talks like a truck driver.”

The feud hit the national stage during the first GOP primary debate in 2015. When Fox host Megyn Kelly asked Trump about his use of terms like “fat pigs” and “slobs” to describe women, he famously replied, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.”

O'Donnell later called Trump's harassment “the most bullying I ever experienced in my life, including as a child.” The abuse, she said, was public, sustained, and “sanctioned societally.”

“A Way to Take Care of Myself and My Child”

Speaking to Chris Cuomo in June, O’Donnell said her move to Ireland was partly about protecting her mental health and ensuring a safer environment for her child under Trump’s second presidency.

“Coming to Ireland was totally a way to take care of myself and my non-binary autistic child, who’s going to need services and help and counseling and all the things that he’s threatening to cut in his horrible plan of the big, beautiful bill,” she said on The Chris Cuomo Project podcast.

In a March interview with CNN, O’Donnell described life under Trump as “heartbreaking and personally very very sad to watch,” adding, “It’s bad as they promised and even a little bit worse.”

She also revealed that she and her child are in the process of applying for Irish citizenship.

Trump’s Fixation Continues

Trump, now in his second term, continues to target O’Donnell with venom that shows no sign of abating. When asked in 2025 about O’Donnell’s move to Ireland, he quipped: “Do you know who she is? You’re better off not knowing.”

Back in 2006, he threatened to sue her over false statements, telling PEOPLE, “Rosie will rue the words she said… I look forward to taking lots of money from my nice fat little Rosie.”

Despite years of public insults, O’Donnell has stayed vocal. She protested outside the White House in 2018 and has remained one of Trump’s fiercest celebrity critics.

No Legal Grounds

While Trump’s claim of revoking O’Donnell’s citizenship set off headlines, legal experts have quickly noted there is no constitutional mechanism for a president to unilaterally strip an American of their citizenship, the New York Post reports.

O’Donnell was born in Long Island and, under current law, retains her citizenship even if she obtains Irish citizenship.

The comment appears to be yet another rhetorical salvo in their long-running war of words—but one that O’Donnell, as ever, is not backing down from. As she put it: “I’m not yours to silence. I never was.”

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President Donald Trump has issued a warning to Rosie O’Donnell, branding her "a threat to humanity".

On Saturday (July 12), the POTUS took to Truth Social to write a post targeting the 63-year-old media personality, branding the comedian and actress as being "not in the best interests" of the United States.

Trump, 79, wrote: "Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"

The President's post references the fact that O’Donnell recently moved to Ireland - crediting her move to Trump's second inauguration in January 2025.

O’Donnell claimed that Trump "has it out for [her] and has for 20 years". She said during a March 2025 appearance on RTÉ’s Late Late Show that their feud was sparked when she "told the truth about him on a program called The View."

It began in December 2006 during a Hot Topics segment on The View, when O'Donnell criticized Trump’s response to Miss USA Tara Conner’s underage drinking scandal, challenging his moral credibility.

“He annoys me on a multitude of levels,” O’Donnell said, adding that Trump is “not a self-made man” but a “snake-oil salesman on Little House On The Prairie."

She then took shots at Trump's previous marriages, saying: “[He] left the first wife, had an affair, left the second wife, had an affair, had kids both times, but he's the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America. Donald, sit and spin, my friend. I don't enjoy him."

Trump fired back in an interview with PEOPLE, calling her “a woman out of control” and threatening legal action. “Rosie will rue the words she said,” he declared. “Rosie’s a loser. A real loser.”

Refering to claims O'Donnell made about him going bankrupt, Trump said at the time: “You can’t make false statements. Rosie will rue the words she said. I’ll most likely sue her for making those false statements – and it’ll be fun. Rosie’s a loser. A real loser. I look forward to taking lots of money from my nice fat little Rosie.”

The feud only escalated from there. Over the years, Trump repeatedly targeted O’Donnell on social media, calling her a “loser” after her 2011 engagement. “I feel sorry for Rosie‘s new partner in love whose parents are devastated at the thought of their daughter being with @Rosie–a true loser," Trump tweeted at the time.

Trump would then mock her openly during the 2015 GOP primary debate. Asked about using terms like “fat pigs” and “slobs” to describe women, Trump famously replied, “Only Rosie O’Donnell.”

O’Donnell has described the harassment as profoundly damaging. “Probably the Trump stuff was the most bullying I ever experienced in my life, including as a child,” she told PEOPLE. “It was national, and it was sanctioned societally.”

By the time Trump won the 2016 election, O’Donnell had become one of his most vocal celebrity critics. She protested outside the White House in 2018 and, by 2025, had moved to Ireland following his second inauguration.

Even after her move abroad, the feud continued. When a reporter jokingly asked Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin why he’d allow O’Donnell into the country, Trump quipped: “Do you know who she is? You’re better off not knowing.”

Reflecting on the sustained attacks, O’Donnell admitted, “He’s been doing it for two decades and I’m still not used to it every time he does.”

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Another day, another Trump related rumour mill. While it's still seems somewhat farcical, and in turn enraging, that the former Apprentice star and veritable Twitter troll, Donald Trump, is sitting in the White House, it does make for some entertaining tabloid chatter. Case in point: Donald Trump Jr. is being divorced by his wife of 13 years, Vanessa.

The news, which emerged last week, is certainly a case of history repeating itself: Trump Jr.'s divorce, like his father's before him, is being covered in the the New York Post. And already, details about the couple's troubled marriage are emerging. Sources have told Page Six that Trump Jr. treated Vanessa like a "second-class citizen" and provided her with little financial support. "He gives her very little help and has been keeping her on a tight budget,” one source said. “She doesn’t live a lavish life and can very rarely pick up a check at dinner," the insider continued.

Certainly, unlike father like son, Trump Jr. is reportedly stingy, and it could be the reason why he's facing divorce.

While a spokesperson for Vanessa Trump has vehemently denied Page Six's report, a second source has come forward to corroborate that Trump Jr. has tight pursestrings. "Don Jr. was never generous with money. Vanessa has had to rely on her mother for financial help for her personal needs," the insider claimed.

This, of course, is ironic as Trump Jr.'s father is a billionaire property mogul with an estimated net-worth of $3.1 billion.

It is evident, however, that such allegations would be more surprising if we weren't talking about the same man who traded photos of his engagement at the Short Hills mall in New Jersey for a free engagement ring. It was a move that even his fame-hungry patriarch questioned - speaking in 2004 to Larry King, Trump stated "You have a name that is hot as a pistol, you have to be very careful with things like this."

And according to the Page Six sources, the couple had faced problems throughout their relationship, with friends urging Vanessa not to go through with the wedding. The election of her father-in-law only made matters worse - what with Donald Trump Jr.'s increasingly contentious social-media presence.

"She was interviewing divorce lawyers before [the Presidency]," a source continued. "No one thought he’d win. He won and she decided to stay until his term is over. But she just couldn’t stand it anymore."

Vanessa Trump's spokesperson has denied all allegations. "These claims are simply not true. Don and Vanessa have tremendous respect for each other and always have. The notion that she has had to rely on her family for assistance is absolutely false and utterly ridiculous," they told Page Six, adding that Vanessa's views on Trump Jr.'s social media posts lie in the "likes".

"Vanessa is very protective of her five children, as anyone would be, especially those in the public eye,” her spokesperson added. “That said, any claims that she is unhappy with Don posting photos of their children on social is not true. In fact, Vanessa is usually the first to ‘like’ the posts that he shares. Don is a wonderful and very involved father."

Irrespective of her reasoning, it seems that Vanessa and Don Jr. are finally going their separate ways.