ryan o neal hit on tatum at farrah funeral

He offered the below example from Farrah's funeral as a reason why:Ryan also talks about the demise of his relationship with Farrah in 1998, when the pair initially split. He cites Farrah's menopause and talks about subsequently bedding a much-younger woman.The whole article is not online, but the issue is on newsstands Wednesday in New York and LA, and a few more remarkable excerpts are here on Vanity Fair's website.The magazine's press release on the article is below, and he says he regrets some of his children and son Griffin says his father gave him cocaine at age 11:Bennetts reports that one of the reasons for their split, according to O'Neal, was that Fawcett was going through some kind of change.... I didn't have a change of life; I was always a jerk. But they're hard work, these divas; I was sick of it, and I was unappreciated.

He says he felt that Fawcett didn't like him very much, so I excused myself, and I was lucky enough to meet this young girl. She was more a daughter to me than a lover, and my own daughter had flown the coop, so here was this replacement." Despite their split, they eventually managed to come back together when O'Neal was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia in 2001 (it has since been controlled with the drug Gleevec). I talked to her every day," O'Neal says. We pulled apart, but we never popped loose."O'Neal tells Bennetts that six weeks before her death Fawcett asked him, "Am I going to make it?, and he said, Sure, baby--and if you don't, I'll go with you, to which Fawcett replied, Stop the Gleevec. He didn't give up his medication, Bennetts writes, but was at Fawcett's bedside when she passed away.According to O'Neal, Fawcett's apparent softness was deceptive, and she

had a stubborn streak of pride and righteousness, he says. They would fight about anything and everything," and they "started fighting about [their son] Redmond by the time he was three, he tells Bennetts.O'Neal calls Fawcett provincial in many ways, and tells Bennetts that he thinks she may have preferred "a picket-fence kind of life, cooking and doing her art, rather than the strain of Hollywood. Aging was hard for her, he says. "In my mind, if I say, 'You're beautiful,' that should be enough. But she was very high-maintenance. She took a long time getting ready to go anywhere, and that started to drive me nuts. We were late to see the president of the United States, and she was his dinner partner! So we were an hour late for Ronald Reagan.

Vanity Fair has split September covers - Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett - and the explosive Fawcett article by Leslie Bennetts offers a remarkable, on-the-record example of the father-daughter dynamic between Farrah's on-off lover Ryan O'Neal and his daughter Tatum (who he calls a bitch), as well as insight into his relationship with Farrah.O'Neal spoke to Bennetts and characterized himself as a hopeless father.