Roseanne Barr's Daughter Is Speaking Out About Her Traumatic Childhood

In an interview with People, Jenny Pentland, the adult daughter of Roseanne Barr, revealed she'd spent lengthy stints in and out of facilities for wayward teens throughout the eighties and nineties. "I was locked up," Pentland shared of the experience of being shifted between various reform schools, psychiatric institutions, and even a wilderness boot camp between the ages of 13 and 18. She admitted to "acting out" predominantly because of her mother's newfound fame with "Roseanne." Pentland details her difficult experience in upcoming memoir "This Will Be Funny Later," admitting how Barr and her father, Bill Pentland, adopted a tough love approach to tackling her increasingly terrible behavior.

As Pentland recalled, she was "depressed," which led to her "getting bad grades," being "mouthy," and "cutting my arms and smoking cigarettes." Her elder sister, Jessica, was also shipped off to a psychiatric facility after stealing their mother's car. "I think there was a fear of us spiraling out of control," Pentland acknowledged. She struggled with PTSD in the subsequent years, after both witnessing and experiencing significant emotional and physical abuse at the various institutions, all of which are now shuttered or under new management. These days, she's happily married and a mother of five sons, while Pentland's relationship with her parents is also good. 

In fact, she defended her mother in another interview with People, opining, "She's not an elected official, she's a comedian — she's allowed to believe whatever she sees fit."