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Note: The following article includes discussions of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and addiction issues.
Ryan O’Neal led a turbulent lifebefore he passed away at the age of 82 on December 8, 2023.
However, he had his share of lows along the way, as did his family.
Ryan’s son Patrick O’Neal announced the actor’s death onInstagram.
“This is the toughest thing I’ve ever had to say,” he said in the post.
Three of Ryan’s children Tatum, Griffin, and Redmond have struggled with substance abuse issues.
When asked “Were you a bad parent?”
Sure looks like it.
I suppose I was."
It seems that at least some of his kids agree with his assessment.
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She was born November 5, 1963, to Ryan and his wife, actor Joanna Moore.
Unfortunately, her astonishing achievement didn’t seem to impress her family.
It also exacerbated her already volatile marriage to John McEnroe, which lasted from 1986 to 1994.
In May 2020, Tatum overdosed and, after a stroke, went into a six-week coma.
She eventually recovered and resumed her efforts to stay sober.
“I’ve been trying to get sober my whole life,” O’Neal toldPeople.
“Every day, I am trying.”
“A beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me,” the actor said toVanity Fair.
“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.”
Tatum and Ryan’s toxic relationship could fill a book and it partly did.
Tatum said she understood his reaction.
But what I wrote in the book was true," she said.
“I’ve moved on.
I’m older now, and I forgive him.”
Tatum did speak fondly of her father after he died.
“He meant the world to me,” she toldPeople.
“I loved him very much and know he loved me too.
I’ll miss him forever and I feel very lucky that we ended on such good terms.”
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I had to self-medicate my entire life because there was pain everywhere.
There were drugs everywhere in my family all day, every day.
It was the ’60s and ’70s and Tatum and I had a tough time."
The tragic times would continue.
Griffin was found not guilty of manslaughter but guilty of negligent operation of a boat.
Eventually, Griffin was estranged from his father as the two had a sometimes violent relationship.
““It will probably break my heart to read it,” Griffin said.
“I have great compassion for my family and I hope for the best for them.”
O’Neal married co-star Leigh Taylor-Young, whom he met on the set of the nighttime soap.
Their son Patrick was born on September 14, 1967.
Patrick also found a career on-screen but in the world of sports.
Patrick co-authored a book called “The Worst Call Ever!”
“My father Ryan O’Neal has always been my hero.
I looked up to him and he was always bigger than life,” Patrick wrote.
“He is a Hollywood legend.
“I will share my father’s legacy forever.
I will not be deterred from outside voices that say negative things,” Patrick wrote.
“I’ll miss you dad.
We love you.”
Afterward, Redmond claimed to have inherited a slew of issues from his parents.
I never asked for any of this; I never wanted any attention.”
