New York Daily News

Rosie: My dad sexually abused me

- Gina Salamone

Rosie O’Donnell has revealed more of her painful past.

The actress says she was sexually abused by her dad before her mom died of breast cancer when she was just 10.

The revelation comes in the book “Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View,’” by Ramin Setoodeh, due out next month.

“It started very young,” O’Donnell (photo) told the author. “And then when my mother died, it sort of ended ... because then he was with these five children to take care of.”

She added: “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.”

Her father, Irish immigrant Edward Joseph O’Donnell, died in 2015.

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