Tatum O’Neal Shared her destructive response to cutting the will of her deceased father Ryan O’Neal.
Most of her life, the 61-year-old actress had a famous turbulent relationship with the actor, who died at the age of 82 of congestive heart failure in 2023. During a recent interview With variety, O
“Keep it, Motherf —–,” said O’Neal.
Tatum O’Neal had a contemptuous reaction to the will of her father Ryan O’Neal. (Getty)
Ryan shared Tatum and her brother Griffin O’Neal, 60, with his deceased ex-wife Joanna Moore. He was also father of son Patrick O’Neal, 57, whom he shared with ex-wife Leigh Taylor-Young, as well as son Redmond O’Neal, 40, whom he shared with the deceased actress Farrah Fawcett.
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O’Neal and Griffin lived with their mother until 1970, when Moore lost custody of her children after he had been arrested for a diz. Moore struggled with chronic problems with alcohol and drug abuse and was arrested for driving several times. She died of lung cancer in 1997 at the age of 63.
After Moore lost custody of O’Neal and Griffin, they started living with Ryan. At the age of 10, O’Neal became the youngest Oscar winner in history when she played opposite her father in 1973’s “Paper Moon”.
O’Neal, however, unveiled in the first of her two autobiographies, ‘A Paper Life’ of 2004, that their relationship was Rocky after the release of the film, because her father was jealous of her success.
“It’s very ugly,” O’Neal told Variety.
Ryan O’Neal had four children, including actress Tatum O’Neal, with whom he is photographed here. (Photo by photos International/Getty Images)
In her memoirs, O’Neal described Ryan’s violent mood, claiming that she was physically and emotional abuse by her father, who was also Addicted to drugs. O’Neal also revealed that she was later molested by a drug dealer, who was a member of Ryan’s Inner Circle.
During her interview with Variety, O’Neal said that she believed that Ryan excludes her from his will because of ‘a paper life’.
“The first book I wrote was just an honest book,” she said. “And that’s what brought him.”
In a declaration of 2004 to Dateline, Ryan denied the allegations that O’Neal made against him in “A Paper Life”, and quoted her own old struggles with drug and alcohol addiction.
“It is a sad day when malignant lies are told to become a” bestseller, “he said. “As a father it is my hope that this book was written to serve as her therapy, and if this is what she had to do to wake up every day and live with herself, then I can only support her healing process, good, bad and ugly.”
He continued: “It is now my hope that she will remain sober, so that her perception of the future is nothing as her cloudy memories of the past.”
Tatum and Ryan O’Neal Co-Starred in the 1973 film ‘Paper Moon’. (Getty Images)
In ‘A Paper Life’ O’Neal remembered how her relationship with her father went back after ‘Paper Moon’. While Ryan’s acting as Conman Moses earned praise praise from critics, O’Neal’s representation of the orphan button Annie Loggins attracted the most attention, with the young actress being declared a prodigy.
O’Neal claimed that Ryan hit her after she received her Academy Award Nomination for the best supporting actress. The star “Love Story” did not accompany his daughter to the award ceremony and later admitted that her victory led to tension within the family.
“Everyone hated everyone because of that Academy Award,” Ryan said in an interview from 2009 with Vanity Fair.
After she won her Academy Award, O’Neal Variety told her to audition for the role of children’s prostitute Iris in Martin Scorsese’s film ‘Taxi Driver’ from 1976. While he spoke with the outlet, O’Neal remembered that Ryan told her: “No, that was”.
O’Neal, however, shared her opinion that Ryan’s envy could have led him to prevent her from auditioning for the role that Jodie yielded her first Oscar nomination.
“And I never really recovered,” said O’Neal.
Tatum and Ryan O’Neal had a tumultuous relationship. (Michael Ochs Archives)
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O’Neal explained that her confidence in her acting ability began to wilt under Ryan’s sizzling criticism.
“He checked and told me,” No, you’re not good, “she told Variety.” And so I started that to get Not good, always feel scared. “
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At the time, O’Neal started to struggle publicly with addiction. She previously shared that she first got alcohol in her mother’s house when she was six years old and claimed that Ryan introduced her and her brother to drugs.
The awareness of the actress and the hard lifestyle led her to become a tabloid fixture and acting opportunities became increasingly often. In 1984 she started a highly published and troubled romance with tennis star John Mcenroe, who also had addiction problems. The couple, that sons Kevin, 38 and Sean, 37, and daughter Emily, 33, the knot in 1986 share. However, their marriage ended in a bitter divorce in 1994.
After her divorce, O’Neal tried to set up an acting co -back, but her career put it seriously addicted to heroin. While she continued to fight addicted, O’Neal occasionally acted, usually in small parts in films and making guest appearances in TV programs.
Tatum O’Neal was married to John Mcenroe from 1986 to 1994. (Ron Galella, Ltd./ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
O’Neal and Ryan were alienated for almost 20 years until they reconcile in 2009 after the death of Fawcett. In 2011, the two played the lead role in their own reality series “Ryan and Tatum: The O’neals”, which followed their failed attempts to restore their relationship.
In May 2020, O’Neal Almost deceased From a stroke she suffered after an overdose on painkillers, opiates and morphine. After her stroke, O’Neal stayed in a coma for six weeks in a coma, and she was left with persistent aphasia, who influenced her ability to speak, read and write.
During her interview with Variety, O’Neal admitted that she did not know if she wanted to survive the stroke, even for her children.
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“I love them so much, but I had already given so much,” she says. “Some of me just didn’t want to make it, you know?”
O’Neal, however, told Variety that she wants to leave her self-destructive habits in the past after her near-death experience.
“Now I don’t want to hurt myself,” said O’Neal. “Now I don’t want to use drugs-I really don’t do that.”
Tatum O’Neal said she found a new feeling of freedom after the death of her father. (Michael Buckner/Getty images for PSFF)
Although she has taken steps in her recovery of the stroke, O’Neal suffers from memory problems and chronic pain. She told Variety that she recently undergone a back operation and learns how to read again.
Nevertheless, O’Neal continues to struggle with austerity and tells variety that she fell back in the night of the US presidential elections when she realized that President Donald Trump would overcome.
“I was with my gay friends and said,” I’m going to have a glass of wine – maybe two, “she remembered.” And then I thought, “Ok, damn it: I have a day of austerity.”
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O’Neal revealed that she saw Ryan three times before he died. Shortly before Ryan’s death she visited her father in his Malibu house, that was Destroyed in January During the Palisades fire.
The actress told Variety that she refused when Ryan offered her drugs during that visit and remembered: “I know he drank, a lot of pot smoked, and he thought,” here, take a pill, “she says. “I had something like:” No, thank you. “
The son of O’Neal, Kevin, who helped his mother during the variation interview, the outlet said, “She drank that day, however. Every time she saw her father my whole life, something happens.”
The actress continues to recover from an almost-fatal blow in 2020. (Getty Images)
Although O’Neal has struggled financially and inherited part of the Ryan estate, the actress would have helped her medical and rehabilitation bills, the actress said she has found a new feeling of freedom since her father’s death.
Kevin shared his opinion that O’Neal now “releases how much space he took in her life”, and noted that she was defined as the person who was abused by Ryan. “
“There was not much desire to be:” I can do great things, “Kevin told his mother. “And I think you can do great things today.”
Kevin also revealed that he one documentary project About his mother, of which he hopes it will generate income to cover some of her medical costs.
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“While she is changing, I think chances for her have begun to change,” says Mcenroe. “More things come up at us when she starts seeing the good in people and the good in the world. Something really shifted when he died that he allowed her to be -” “
“Yes, only Tatum! Without my father,” she intervened.
“Only Tatum is enough,” Kevin told her.
When asked if she had the feeling that she was ‘almost there’, O’Neal replied: “Yes!”
“Even better than almost enough,” she added.
