Rosie O'Donnell jokes she would trade her teenagers for 'autistic triplets' just months after allegedly threatening to cut all ties with her daughter, 18, if she doesn't go to rehab thousands of miles from home

Rosie O'Donnell joked she would trade each of her four teenagers for three autistic triplets during a stand-up set in New York on Sunday.

'My teenagers are a nightmare, they're horrible,' Rosie, who is estranged from her eldest daughter Chelsea, 18, said at The Fund for Women's Equality & The ERA Coalition's A Night of Comedy with Jane Fonda.

The mother of five quipped that she decided to adopt a newborn baby even though she had four other teens so that she could remind herself why she had kids in the first place, according to People.

Making jokes: 'My teenagers are a nightmare, they're horrible,' Rosie, who is estranged from her eldest daughter Chelsea, 18, said at The Fund for Women's Equality & The ERA Coalition's A Night of Comedy with Jane Fonda

Estranged daughter: Rosie joked about family matters without mentioning Chelsea, 18, (pictured), with whom she had a very public feud last year. Rosie’s jokes come just two months after Chelsea told Daily Mail Online in an exclusive interview that Rosie cut all ties with her and won’t let her have contact with her younger siblings

'I had four teenagers when I decided to adopt a newborn baby. You might ask why. Because I had four teenagers and I needed to remind myself that I actually do love children,' O'Donnell said before adding, 'Because I would trade each teen for autistic triplets, I am just saying I would.'

Rosie joked about family matters and named her children without mentioning Chelsea, with whom she had a very public feud last year.

'My son told me he's writing a book, Life With Mom: Not So Rosie.,' Rosie said during her set. 'I found it annoying.'

'I did the best I could,' she added. 'They blame you for everything.'

The former host of the view then spoke of her own troubled childhood before mentioning a parenting gaffe with her oldest son Parker.

Pictured on Sunday: 'I had four teenagers when I decided to adopt a newborn baby. You might ask why. Because I had four teenagers and I needed to remind myself that I actually do love children,' Rosie O'Donnell said before adding, 'Because I would trade each teen for autistic triplets, I am just saying I would'

‘I didn't have parents! My mother died, my father was a drunk abusive idiot. I had nothing, and my children complain, “You wouldn't even help me with math!” ‘

Rosie said her biggest parenting mistake with Parker was as follows: ‘When he was 17 I made the biggest parenting mistake of my life,’ she said.

‘He had a girlfriend who was a year older, they were dating for three years. We went away on vacation for Christmas in Jamaica. There weren't enough bedrooms. ... I said, 'You and Allison could possibly share a room if you'd like on this trip,' and you know, all of a sudden, we didn't see him. So I said to Vivi, my 10-year-old, “Where the hell is Parker?' She says, 'Where do you think he is, Mom? He's in the bedroom with Allison, bom chicka wah wah.” ‘

‘That's bad parenting on a lot of levels,’ O'Donnell said with a chuckle.

‘I had no power after that. Zero.’

Rosie’s jokes come just two months after Chelsea told Daily Mail Online in an exclusive interview that Rosie cut all ties with her and won’t let her have any contact with her younger siblings until she agrees to a year-long therapy program thousands of miles from home.

The 18-year-old previously opened up to Daily Mail Online about how she felt like an outsider to her family after being sent away from her Nyack, New York home to a therapeutic boarding school in Utah for three years when she turned 13.

Ultimatum: Rosie issued her daughter Chelsea an ultimatum through text messages which the teen shared with Daily Mail Online

The teen said that she did not want to repeat the experience with the new program, which is based in Texas, and was pleading for an opportunity to address her problems nearer to home – and be allowed to see her siblings, Blake, 15, Vivienne, 12, and two-year-old Dakota.

‘Rosie and my other mom Kelli [Carpenter, Rosie’s ex-wife] want me to go to Texas for an independent living, therapy program. For the first 60 days it’s very restricted, you can’t do anything and it’s just strictly therapy. After that you move into an independent living program where you get your own apartment and you can have your own car.

‘People could come visit me but I don’t know if I’d be able to go home.

‘They sent me away from when I was 13 until I was 17. This is my choice and I don’t feel like I need it at this point. I’ve been in so much therapy in the last couple of years that I know everything they’re going to teach me,’ she said in December.

Although her moms first brought up the program with Chelsea in the summer she said that in December, Rosie issued her an ultimatum through text messages which the teen shared with Daily Mail Online.

Rosie texted: ‘go to texas – this is the last offer of any kind of help. ever.’

Chelsea replied: ‘Then I don’t want ur help.’

Rosie then wrote: ‘u never have – go find another stranger to take care of u – till they kick u out – or u run away.

‘enjoy the rest of ur life. Goodbye.’

New beau: Chelsea told Daily Mail Online she was dating a new boy named Nick (pictured) and said that Rosie met him and was nice only to later write a poem about him and his family that she found invasive 

Chelsea also told Daily Mail Online that she was staying with a friend’s family in Massapequa, New York, after breaking up with her boyfriend in Barnegat Township, New Jersey, over a month prior.

The teen had been living with her ex, Steven Sheerer, 26, at his parents’ home since Rosie allegedly kicked her out in August, two weeks before her 18th birthday.

Chelsea said the relationship had become unhealthy and she was no longer speaking to Steve.

She told Daily Mail Online: ‘I just wasn’t happy. I had no way to get around so I was basically stuck in the house, all day, every day by myself.

‘I was really nauseous all the time, getting sick and just not feeling good at all.

‘Steve and I weren’t getting along. His family situation wasn’t a healthy environment for me. I was miserable and so depressed. I was offered the chance to leave, and I took the offer to come down here.

‘I just didn’t want to be with Steve anymore.’

Chelsea met Sheerer on Tinder when she was 17 years old. Sheerer was on probation for convictions of possessing controlled dangerous substances and child endangerment. He was arrested in 2013 with heroin and marijuana while in a car with a woman and her two children aged one and three.

In August, after Chelsea was found staying at Sheerer’s home, he was charged with third-degree endangering a child and third-degree distribution of obscenity to a minor. The latter was the result of a nude photo Sheerer sent Chelsea when she was 17.

Chelsea petitioned a judge in New Jersey to drop charges that had been brought against him because of their relationship. The charges were dropped along with a no-contact order after a judge approved her request on September 4.

Chelsea said in December that she was living with the family of an old school friend after the boy’s mother offered her a place to stay.

‘They have been really helpful and they’re a big part of my life right now. I’m happy there,’ she said.

But her new living situation has caused conflict with both of her mothers.

‘Rosie and Kelli are not happy that I’m staying with this family,’ Chelsea said. ‘Rosie has been really mean to the lady I’m living with over text messages, like texts she’s sent me in the past. It gets to the point where the lady is crying because my mom is being so mean.’

Chelsea has not seen the text messages that Rosie had sent but said she witnessed the woman’s reaction.

The teen said: ‘They were hurtful messages and she [Rosie] told the lady that she was a stranger and a crazy Rosie fan. Rosie was like, “You must just love me and want to get to me.”’

‘But excuse me, nobody likes Rosie anymore. She’s not that special.’

Kelli and Rosie divorced around the time Chelsea was 12. The couple started dating in 1999 when Chelsea was a baby and married in San Francisco in 2004 when gay marriage was legalized there. The pair share custody of their four children.

Siblings: Family secrets: Chelsea (second from left), with Parker, Blake and Vivienne, told Daily Mail Online Rosie smokes weed, never gets dressed and watches documentaries all day long

In 2012, Rosie, 53, married Michelle Rounds, 44, and adopted a baby girl, Dakota, in January 2013. The couple separated a year ago and reached a divorce settlement last October. They agreed to share joint custody of their toddler, Dakota.

Chelsea, who claims she last saw her mother a few months ago with her new boyfriend Nick, said that Rosie was civil to them both but that she was shocked to discover that Rosie had written a poem about her on her blog sharing personal information about his family.

Chelsea also said that Child Protective Services had visited Rosie’s home after she revealed that the TV star liked to smoke weed.

In an interview with Daily Mail Online in October, she revealed details of O’Donnell’s life away from the public sphere, including how she likes to lock herself away in an ‘arts and crafts house’ to paint, blast Madonna on the stereo and smoke weed.

Chelsea said: ‘I mean, she smokes weed – not around us – but the whole house smells like it.’

According to Rosie’s eldest daughter, CPS interviewed her younger siblings.

Chelsea said: ‘Rosie accused me of calling Child Protective Services and said that it was all my fault. I said to her, “I just mentioned you smoked weed, I didn’t say you did anything to hurt my siblings. You do it by yourself, I can smell it in the house.”’

Chelsea also spoke of her anguish at being unable to speak to her younger siblings.

‘My parents have said that I’m not allowed to see Vivvy and Blake. But I went out to dinner with my older brother, Parker, two or three weeks ago. We talked and hung out for a while.

‘Parker was telling me to make up with Rosie. He didn’t talk about his feelings but he said “it would be so much easier if you guys just made up.”’

In accordance:Chelsea says that her other mom, Kelli Carpenter, agrees with Rosie that she should go to Texas for a year

But the teen doesn’t feel it’s that simple.

She said: ‘I have a life here and I have things that I’m not willing to leave to go to a program for a year, really far away.

‘They [Rosie and Kelli] are saying right now that I have to go to Texas, in order to have my siblings in my life. I have a lot to think about I guess.

‘Unless I go to this program they are like, “We’re done. We want you not to contact anyone else in our family.” They’ve cut me out completely unless I text them and say that I’m going to do this. It’s really upsetting.

‘I asked if there was any alternative options – like if I could go to therapy every day for a year or go to a day program close to home. I’m just trying to find different options. But they are just sticking with Texas.

‘I want my siblings in my life. So I guess I have to figure out a way to do that,' said Chelsea who said that Rosie has not been helping her financially.

‘My parents haven’t been helping me financially since Rosie kicked me out in August,’ Chelsea said.

‘I finally got the insurance card from Rosie which has been helping with my hospital bills and stuff. My friend’s family have been helping me out, trying to steer me in the right direction.

‘I’m trying to get a job right now and trying to find a way to get back into school so I can get my diploma. If I can’t do that then I’ll just work for the next year and then try to get my GED.

‘I need to figure it out with my transcripts, what I need to do to finish school but it might just be easier to go to a local school and have it figured out there.’

In the summer, Chelsea was considering a move to Wisconsin to live with her biological mother, Deanna Micolley. The pair were reunited last November after Chelsea reached out to her birth mom.

The teen spent a week in August with Deanna, her husband and three children in the small town of Niagara but despite becoming close with her extended family, she believes that it would not be a healthy situation for her.