Rosie O'Donnell on Learning Her Youngest Child Was Autistic: 'Never Thrown By It'

Rosie O'Donnell on Learning Her Youngest Child Was Autistic: 'Never Thrown By It'

Rosie O’Donnell got personal about parenting an autistic child recently during a guest appearance on Good Hang With Amy Poehler. After discussing a vast range of issues on the podcast, from her early career and public coming-out to her friendship with Cynthia Nixon and living as an expat in Ireland, she talked about the youngest […]

Rosie O’Donnell on coming out: “It’s not an easy life. But it’s a true life”

I couldn’t even tell my family. My family didn’t want to hear about it. Even though they knew that I was living with [my ex], and they knew that now I wasn’t, nobody brought it up. Nobody said, “Are you OK?” That is very, very isolating and lonely. It makes you feel that you’re sort of doomed by being gay, which is no different than being left-handed, or having blue eyes. People don’t choose it. Who would choose it? It’s not an easy life.But it’…