Rosie O’Donnell missed granddaughter’s birth by an hour

Rosie O’Donnell has shared she missed the arrival of her first grandchild by an hour due to the travelling distance.
The SMILF star became a first-time grandma last month (Dec18) when her adopted daughter Chelsea O’ Donnell, 21, welcomed her first child, daughter Skylar Rose, with her partner Jacob Bourassa.
And in an interview on the Today show on Wednesday (16Jan19), the actress shared that despite her efforts she missed the arrival of the baby girl due to the distance.
“She called me from Wisconsin – Chels, my daughter, lives there with her partner Jake – and she called and said, ‘I’m in labour,'” Rosie recalled to Today. “I got on a plane and I missed the birth by, like an hour. But she’s happy.”
And describing how it felt to hold her granddaughter for the first time, she gushed it was “really trippy” and praised the baby girl’s lush locks.
“She has a full head of black hair, like full,” the 56-year-old smiled. “You can do styles with her hair, you know?”
Rosie added she’s especially excited to see her daughter, whom she adopted as a baby with her ex-wife Kelli Carpenter, welcome her own little girl.
“(It’s been great) to see my daughter so happy and so content, and this guy who loves her so much, loving that baby,” the actress continued. “I think a lot of adopted kids feel, until they have their own child, they don’t have that unit, to look at someone who looks like them, to see genetically that they have their own kind of history. So it was really a very beautiful thing.”
Rosie’s family joy comes after mother and daughter reconciled when Chelsea learned she was pregnant following a years-long period of estrangement.
The pair fell out in 2015, when Chelsea went missing after reportedly being kicked out of the actress’ home. She was later found safe and sound with her then-boyfriend, who the star did not approve of.