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.”

Tatum and Ryan have experienced an often rocky relationship, which was further complicated by Tatum’s 2004 tell-all A Paper Life.

“When I was 16 years old, he and Farrah moved in together, and after that I saw my dad periodically, and that took a long time for me to get over,” she says. “Would I do that to my kids? No, but I don’t think Farrah was responsible for that. I truly thought Farrah was inspirational and beautiful and kind. Anyway, it’s past; I’ve moved on. I’m older now, and I forgive him.”

She says the recent loss of her sixteen year old pooch has simply been too much for her to bear.

“I lost my Scottish terrier, Lena, [three weeks ago.] That seemed to set me off,” Tatum said. “She got old. She got cancer. She was the fabric of our family. We had to let her go to heaven. My daughter and I had to put her down. It was too horrible for words. “

Ironically, a thankful Tatum credits the NYPD’s Boyz in Blue with saving her from a likely relapse:

“Just when I was about to change that and wreck my life, the cops came and saved me! I was saved by the bell, by the guys in the Seventh Precinct.”

Academy Award-winning former child star Tatum O’Neal has been arrested after she was busted allegedly buying drugs near her Manhattan home.

The forty-four year old actress was charged with buying cocaine and crack near her Lower East Side loft, New York Police Department moles have spilled to the New York Post. She has been charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. According the NY Post, Tatum, who was in possession of a crack pipe, was arrested at 7:30 p.m. by detectives from Manhattan South Narcotics on Clinton Street between East Broadway and Grand Street.

Tatum O’Neal, the daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal, became the youngest-ever Oscar winner when she took home the trophy for her role in the film Paper Moon at age ten.

Tatum was keen to show off just why she won that Oscar, quickly coming up with several quick excuses for why she was trying to purchase drugs:

“When the police approached, she asked them, ‘You know who I am, right?’ ” one source told The Post.

“Can’t we just forget about this?” the sources said she begged detectives.