Biological Mom Of Rosie O’Donnell’s Oldest Adopted Kid Revealed In 10 Photos—‘I Just Want My Daughter Back!’
Mar. 26 2019, Updated 1:50 p.m. ET
Rosie O’Donnell has been plunged into an adoption scandal! Check out RadarOnline.com’s gallery showing the biological mother of O’Donnell’s adopted teen daughter, Chelsea, and read the woman’s shocking accusations against the former talk show host.
“I believe Rosie O’Donnell knew that I was in no condition to sign away my parental rights to my daughter!” Deanna Micoley, 37, told The National ENQUIRER in a blockbuster exclusive interview. “She did the worst thing one woman can do to another woman — take her child!”
Micoley was unhappily married and just 20 years old when, in Aug. 1997, she gave birth to a baby girl who she named Kayla, now known as Chelsea. Two months later, her now ex-husband forced her to give up their child to an adoption agency, it’s alleged.
“I may not have been the best mother back then. I did drugs and I have a criminal record because of it,” Micoley admitted. “But I surely didn’t deserve to have my baby stolen from me!”
Micoley said she never knew O’Donnell had adopted her daughter until last November when Kayla — or Chelsea — contacted her biological maternal grandfather. “Chelsea told him that she was his granddaughter. He called me and broke the news. It was the moment I’d been waiting and praying for the last 17 years – I’d found my precious daughter!”
Since then, Micoley and Chelsea, pictured here as a baby, have communicated through Facebook and text messages, during which her daughter allegedly revealed to her birth mom that she despises bombastic O’Donnell! “Chelsea has told me that she had issues with Rosie,” Micoley said.
When Chelsea quizzed her biological mom as to why she’d been placed for adoption, Micoley said: “I told her the truth — that her daddy wasn’t a good person and she was basically given up to an adoption agency.”
“Rosie O’Donnell stole my baby, but I don’t want her money. I just want my daughter back!” said Micoley.
Added Micoley: “Rosie wants to paint me as a horrible person and says adopting Chelsea saved her from a life of misery.”
“Rosie even hired someone to dig up my criminal record and gave it to Chelsea,” claimed Micoley. “But bless her heart, Chelsea told me the past was the past, and she loves me!”
O’Donnell’s publicist attacked Micoley, who couldn’t have given Chelsea the same lifestyle as the wealthy star, for speaking out publicly about her biological daughter. According to Cindi Berger, O’Donnell “legally adopted” Chelsea from the non-profit Children of the World in New Jersey. “The agency never would have accepted the baby if the birth mother was under the influence,” Berger told The National ENQUIRER. “There are notarized adoption papers signed by the birth mother and father that were accepted by both the adoption agency and the Court.”