Rosie O'Donnell Was Sexually Abused By Her Father When She Was a Child

Rosie O’Donnell reveals in the upcoming book, “Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View’” by Variety’s New York bureau chief Ramin Setoodeh, that she was sexually abused by her father when she was a child.

“It started very young,” Rosie said about her dad Edward Joseph. “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.”

When Rosie was 10 she lost her mom Roseann to breast cancer. Her father died in 2015.

“Ladies Who Punch” will be released on April 2.