Rosie’s Book Raises Questions About A Difficult Past

As the release approaches for Rosie O’Donnell’s memoir, “Celebrity Detox,” more is being uncovered from within its pages.

The book, in stores Oct. 9 (pushed back from Oct. 2), raises questions about Rosie’s traumatic past, and hints at possible childhood abuse.

“There were many benefits to having a cast,” Rosie writes in the book. “In the middle of the night, it was a weapon.”

Cryptic words that imply possible childhood abuse to some, though Rosie does not elaborate inside on why, or from what, she would protect herself with casts on her hands and arms as a child.

O’Donnell, who lost her mom to cancer at age ten, would break her own limbs with a baseball bat or wooden hanger. She writes it was “proof I had some value, enough to be fixed.”

Besides the challenges she faced in her personal life, Rosie also writes of her stint as co-host on “The View,” taking some jabs at former boss Barbara Walters.

Along with seeming to suggest that Walters should retire, O’Donnell claims that Barbara came to resent her.

For Instance, she writes that the audience would scream, “I love you, Rosie” during commercial breaks, “and Barbara tells them in this schoolteacher tone, ‘It is impolite to say I love you to one person when there are four of us up here.‘ Then a stony silence sets in.”

Walters, who has read the book, expressed her reaction to it Tuesday in a statement to Access Hollywood:

“Rosie has written a sad book, but I choose to focus on the happier times that we had and the happy times that we hope to have in the future.”

A publicist for O’Donnell told Access, “Rosie loves Barbara, always has, always will.”