Rosie O’Donnell has clarified her feedback about her daughter Vivienne’s childhood after the 19-year-old mentioned her childhood was “not normal”.
Vivienne has been sharing anecdotes from her upbringing together with her TikTok followers, together with the time she found Madonna and Oprah Winfrey had been household associates.
In a video earlier this week, {the teenager} mentioned she had acquired dozens of feedback about how O’Donnell had ensured her life was “normal” rising up.
“No offence, Mom,” Vivienne mentioned. “That never happened. She just didn’t really inform us [about] really anything.”
“She has done so much for me, and I’m so incredibly, incredibly thankful for her, but one thing she’s not done is normal.”
In one other video she recalled not being allowed to observe TV or hearken to the radio a lot as a toddler, and the way she was sheltered from the thought of celebrities.
“At my birthday parties, this beautiful woman would always come, and I was like, ‘Yeah, there’s Mo’,” she defined.
“I just never had any idea who the f*** she was. One night I was watching TV with Ro [O’Donnell]we were probably watching an award show.
“Anyways it’s Mo getting a f***ing award. Then I finally realised it was Madonna all these years.”
She added that it was “the same thing with Oprah [Winfrey].”
O’Donnell had initially joked that she didn’t perceive her daughter’s feedback.
“Vivi, what do you mean I didn’t do anything normal? I did normal things. I’m normal. I’m totally normal,” O’Donnell mentioned in a video. She additionally joked about spilling Vivienne’s “secrets”.
In a brand new video O’Donnell has now clarified her feedback, telling her TikTok followers that she agrees with Vivienne’s claims.
“I knew what she was talking about. It’s not normal to have three lesbian mothers and have one of them be famous and get in a fight with the president for five years or more,” O’Donnell mentioned, referring to her public feud with Donald Trump.
She added: “She’s right to say that it wasn’t a normal upbringing like all of her friends and it’s okay, you’re allowed to express your feelings in our family, even if you do it online in a funny manner.
“I replied, I thought in a funny manner, saying I was going to tell all her secrets. But I don’t have any secrets! She’s a great kid, always has been.”
