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Report: Rosie O’Donnell’s Father Passes Away

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ABC rosie odonnell the view sk 140915 16x9 992?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1425301786623Lou Rocco/ABC(NEW YORK) — The bad news continues for Rosie O’Donnell.  E! News reports that her father, Edward Joseph O’Donnell, lost his fight with cancer. He was 81.

The former View co-host has been open about her strained relationship with her dad. 

“He had his own issues and demons, he had a very tough childhood, he had an alcoholic, abusive father and never really got the help that I think every person needs when they have lived through that as a child,” she told Piers Morgan in 2012. “I think that he had a lot of problems to deal with. No matter what, at the end of the day, every child loves their dad.”

The news comes days after the comedian reported her 17-year-old daughter Chelsea missing in New York. The teen was safe and sound at the New Jersey home of 25-year-old Steven M. Sheerer.  However, Sheerer was later arrested for charges of distribution of obscenity to a minor and endangering the welfare of a child. Sheerer faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of both charges.

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