Rosie O’Donnell gushes over ‘beautiful’ arrival of granddaughter

Rosie O’Donnell can’t stop beaming about her newest role — grandmother.

The comedian-actress, 56, appeared on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on Tuesday and gushed over her once-estranged daughter, Chelsea, welcoming a baby girl.

“It was something really beautiful,” Rosie said. “It’s very trite, but it’s what everyone says — when you’re a grandparent, it’s like [having] a baby times a million. And that’s what it felt like.”

Chelsea and boyfriend Jacob Bourassa welcomed little Skylar Rose on Dec. 18. Rosie shared a picture of her family’s new addition.

But the arrival of Skylar Rose was bittersweet. She was born one day after Rosie’s good friend Penny Marshall passed away.

“It reminded me about the whole circle of life, and to remember every great thing that I had with her and that she really did give me a film career,” Rosie said. “I’ll be eternally grateful.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Rosie gushed over her fiancée Elizabeth Rooney, who is a mounted police officer in Massachusetts.

As Rosie said, the very first night Elizabeth stayed over at her Nyack, New York, home, the alarm went off. Elizabeth got a chance to show off her protective side.

“Before I’m even awake, I hear (gun-loading sound),” she said, imitating Elizabeth. “’Stay right here! I’m going downstairs!’”

“She kicked in the kids’ doors,” Rosie recalled. “She was checking for someone. I was like, ‘Oh my God! This is like ‘Cagney and Lacey.’”

“There is something kind of warm and amazing to be with a woman, as a gay person, that has a lot of guy qualities,” Rosie said. “She was in the Army for a bunch of years and then she was a professional boxer.”

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