Rosie O'Donnell reveals her father sexually abused her in an upcoming book about The View

Variety

O'Donnell tells Variety's Ramin Setoodeh in his upcoming book Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View that her father Edward Joseph, who died in 2015, committed sexual abuse that "started very young. And then when my mother died, it sort of ended in a weird way, because then he was with these five children to take care of. On the whole, it’s not something I like to talk about. Of course, it changes everyone. 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.”