Tatum O’Neal Vows to Help Jailed Brother With Heroin Addiction
Earlier this year, Tatum O’Neal, an actress best known for her work as a child movie star in the 70s, detailed her past struggles with heroin and crack in her autobiography Found: A Daughter’s Journey Home.
Now that she is clean, she is hoping that sharing her methods for overcoming those addictions will help save her 26-year-old brother Redmond, as he is dealing with very similar substance abuse problems.
Redmond O’Neal, the son of actor Ryan O’Neal and the late actress Farrah Fawcett, was arrested on August 2nd when officers found heroin in his trunk after he was stopped for running a red light.
While Redmond has had several court appearances stemming from DUI and heroin charges in the past, his most recent one was the first time his father Ryan and half-siblings Tatum and Patrick came together to support him.
A source close to the family told RadarOnline.com:
“Tatum will move heaven and earth to do whatever she can to help Redmond get and stay sober. Tatum loves Redmond tremendously, and doesn’t want to lose her brother to this disease. Tatum is sincere and her concern for her youngest brother is genuine.”
Redmond’s next court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday, August 24, and according to Radar’s source, Tatum will be there.
“Tatum is going to be there for Redmond, whatever he needs. But she knows as a person in recovery, she can want Redmond to get sober until the cows come home…Redmond has to want it,” the insider said.
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Posted: August 12, 2011
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Aug 13, 2011
WHOA! The kid looks 50 years old, he's been rode hard and put away wet! I wish him all the luck in the world.
Aug 13, 2011
LAUGH, LOVE, BE HAPPY, AND GIVE W/OUT RECIEVIN G! YOU WILL LIVE LONGER!
Aug 13, 2011
How does it benefit society to put drug addicts in prison?
Aug 13, 2011
Treatment can be made available (let me re-phrase: IS available, for any income level), but only for the willing. In the meantime, we are a nation of laws, and driving under the influence is recklessly putting other lives in jeopardy. Some people will always choose the drug over sobriety — and it is a choice, despite the strength of the addiction. Millions have done it, but sadly millions won't want to leave the addiction behind. Do we decriminalize drugs and then treat the addicted? I don't know, maybe…unless they're stealing, robbing, trafficking, or are DUI — then jail is a must.
Aug 13, 2011
if you are willing to give it try of getting out of drugs no matter what others try to do for you, you are the only one that have to give it all with the help of the GOOD LORD he his the only one that can help you, give him a try and don't let go.
Aug 14, 2011
Hopefully Tatum can help her brother because if not who knows how much longer he has left. Drugs like heroin are highly addictive and are not easy to beat. Not everyone survives…as in this story.
http://www.peoplesinsight.com/articles/7-addictions/260-heroin-robbed-me-of-my-daughter#comment-3469
Aug 14, 2011
Watching "The O'Neals on OWN…it is obvious Tatum has done a lot of work on herself. Brava…Ryan…still nursing at 70 and need serious help to step foot into the "real world". However…between her mother and Farrah…there was yest another woman with another sibling…Leigh Taylor Young…So…someone need to remind both of them that there is history…and damage done before Dear Farrah was involved…I wish all of them the best…
Aug 14, 2011
This is a sad, sad bunch of kids.
Oct 26, 2011
Tatum you and your family are just as good of people as anyone else in this mixed up world, and it is mixed up. Please, always remember that truth, and always remember you are a good person, great star actress, and very beautiful woman, on the inside, and outside, and always will be, too. I mean that, too, not just saying it, either. No less than that, pretty lady. Sincerely, warm hugs, Kelly.