Rosie O’Donnell’s - Celebrity Detox

ROSIE O’DONNELL’s highly anticipated new book , Celebrity Detox, doesn’t hit stores until October 9, but details have already started to come out. Rosie O’Donnell used to break her own limbs with either a baseball bat or a wooden hanger when she was a child. This personal memory, so shocking, is almost thrown toward the end of what is better described as a long essay than a short memoir.

She broke her own bones, she recalls, “my hands and fingers usually. No one knew. It was a secret.” She used a Mets baseball bat she got on bat day or the hanger. Why? It was “proof I had some value, enough to be fixed.” She recalls that she was no longer sad about her mother’s death, but “distracted.”