Rosie O’Donnell Suicide Scandal — Angry Friends Tell All

Rosie O’Donnell bullied her ex-wife into despair by keeping her from her children and raising them in a hell house of booze and drugs!

The caustic comic’s now estranged daughter, Chelsea O’Donnell Alliegro (right), and furious friends blew the whistle on Rosie’s brutish behavior days after Michelle Rounds was found dead from an apparent suicide at her Florida home on Sept. 11. Rosie and Michelle married in 2012, but the relationship quickly crumbled, leading to a bitter custody battle over their adopted daughter, Dakota, now 4.

“Rosie threatened that Michelle would never see Dakota again and drove the poor woman into almost taking her life!” The National ENQUIRER learned from a source. At the time, Rosie was seeing married actress Dana Schiff and Michelle believed she was going to be “replaced” as Dakota’s mother, says the source.

“Michelle was distraught over the way Rosie was raising all of her children,” the source dished. “Michelle was also deeply concerned about Rosie’s drinking and marijuana use!” But Rosie’s estimated $100 million bankroll was hard to combat.

“Michelle feared Dakota would grow up to suffer the same kinds of problems that the rest of Rosie’s kids seemed to have,” the source says, noting the family of five children has been rocked by drug use and other dramas.

On the heels of harsh backlash blaming Rosie’s conduct for triggering mentally fragile Michelle’s suicide, 20-year-old Chelsea has announced she’s pregnant! What’s more, she’s vowed to keep the former talk show titan away from her child — the same way she said Rosie blocked her and her four siblings from seeing Michelle, who’d previously attempted suicide in September 2015 shortly after the couple split.

Rosie has insisted Michelle “gave up her custodial rights” — and she did spend time with Dakota. But a devastated Chelsea said that “Michelle was pretty much taken away from me.” Shown here with her sister Vivienne, Chelsea added:  “Rosie will not be in my child’s life."