Ryan O’Neal Blames Tatum O’Neal For Farrah Fawcett’s Fatal Fight With Cancer
Noting rebuilds a fractured father/daughter relationship like charging your kid with killing the love of your life.
Noting rebuilds a fractured father/daughter relationship like charging your kid with killing the love of your life.

Sometimes estranged father-daughter duo Ryan and Tatum O’Neal are one of two celebrity families who have landed a docu-soap on the soon-to-go-live Oprah Winfrey Network, OWN execs announced on Monday.

Academy Award winners Ryan and Tatum O’Neal are set to document their recent reconciliation for a new TV reality show.
Ah — just what the world needs. More unscripted TV! Whatever to your old-fashioned, run-of-the-mill sitcom?
The September 2009 issue of
Vanity Fair Magazine features double covers of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, who both passed away on June 25.
In Farrah’s issue, longtime love Ryan O’Neal — who was reportedly cut out of Farrah’s will – reveals that he hit on his own daughter, Oscar-winning actress Tatum O’Neal, at Farrah’s funeral because he didn’t recognize her….
“I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me,” Ryan told me. “I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me—Tatum!’ I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.”
“That’s our relationship in a nutshell,” Tatum said when I asked her about it. “You make of it what you will.” She sighed. “It had been a few years since we’d seen each other, and he was always a ladies’ man, a bon vivant.”
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Tatum O’Neal speaking out about her arrest for attempting to purchase cocaine and crack cocaine on the Lower East Side of Manhattan late Sunday. “I’m still sober!” the mother of three told the New York Post on Tuesday. The forty-four year old former child star took home an Academy Award for her role in the film Paper Moon at the age of ten, becoming the youngest person to ever win an Oscar. Today, the award-winning actress has an interesting excuse for her embarrassing walk on the wild side; Tatum says the dog made her do it. Read the rest of this entry »