Rosie O’Donnell announces birth of her third granddaughter
Rosie O’Donnell is a proud “nana” of three.
The comedian revealed that her daughter Chelsea welcomed her third daughter on Wednesday morning.
“Okay, big news,” O’Donnell began a video posted to both Instagram and TikTok, congratulating Chelsea, 24, on the birth. “Three girls under three, oh my gosh!”
“The baby’s name is Avery Lynn,” she continued, adding that everyone is doing great. “Just call me ‘Nana 3’ – three grandkids. I’m a nana. I love it.”
The “Rosie O’Donnell Show” host also shared a sweet photo of the newborn wearing a pink and blue beanie, writing, “avery lynn – look! we have the same tummy #grandbabies.”
Chelsea — who was adopted by O’Donnell, 59, and her former partner Kelli Carpenter — also shares 3-year-old Skylar Rose and daughter Riley with her boyfriend Jacob Bourassa.
The mother-daughter duo have had a tumultuous relationship through the years, including a very public falling out.
The pair became estranged when Chelsea ran away from the home in August 2015. Her mom reported her missing, and she was found a week later at the home of an alleged heroin dealer in New Jersey.
Chelsea then moved to Wisconsin to live with her birth mother, Deanna Micoley. She briefly reconciled with O’Donnell in the summer of 2016, however it was short-lived as she accused the former “View” host of nearly attacking her with a wine bottle the following year.
She also told Daily Mail that the comedian “smokes weed” in the house and rarely spent time with her children, however O’Donnell rebutted the claims, telling the outlet that her daughter was “mentally ill” and making up lies for money.
The pair began to mend their relationship when Chelsea was pregnant with her first child in 2018.
“I think with my relationship with my daughter, Chelsea, it really has [improved] because we went through some really public troubled times,” she said on “The Talk” in 2018, per People.
“She’s doing better now and we’re both communicating with each other.”
O’Donnell also shares kids Parker, 26, Blake, 22, and Vivienne, 19, with her first wife, and a daughter named Dakota, 9, whom she adopted with her late ex-wife, Michelle Rounds.
She previously said becoming a grandmother was “really beautiful.”
“It’s very trite, but it’s what everyone says — when you’re a grandparent, it’s like [having] a baby times a million. And that’s what it felt like,” she said during a 2019 appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”
