Fawcett's Funeral
Monday August 3, 2009
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CelebNews@Usmagazine.com! - Ryan O'Neal Hit
on Daughter Tatum at Farrah Fawcett's Funeral
Ryan O'Neal says he has been so estranged from his daughter Tatum that
he hit on her at Farrah Fawcett's June 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 tells the
September issue of
Vanity 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."
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Tatum says she wasn't creeped out, either.
"That's our relationship in a nutshell," says the actress, who won an Oscar
at age 10 for starring with her father in Paper Moon. "You make of it
what you will. 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 had struggled with addiction growing up and hadn't spoken to her father
in years. Penning her 2004 memoir A Paper Life didn't help their
relationship, either.
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"She wrote a book--b***!" Ryan recalls thinking. "How dare she throw our
laundry in the street for money!...
Tatum says her father "has every right to be angry about the book; no parent
wants to hear their kid saying s**** things about them... But what I wrote in
the book was true. I've got a battle with drugs, but I'm a strong, independent
person, and I fight for myself, and my father and I butt heads."
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"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."
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