In the wake of her near-death experience three years ago, Tatum O’Neal is looking to rebuild her relationship with her father, Ryan O’Neal. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, O’Neal shared her recent journey reconnecting with her dad.
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Tatum O'Neal "almost died" from a drug overdose in May 2020. O'Neal, who gained fame after winning an Oscar at the age of 10, overdosed on pain medication, opiates and morphine.The ordeal left her in a coma for six-weeks, and she was diagnosed with aphasia, which occurs from damage to the part of the brain that handles language. "She also had a cardiac arrest and a number of seizures," her son Kevin McEnroe told People magazine.
"There were times we didn't think she was going to survive." O'Neal, the daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal, shares Kevin with her ex-husband John McEnroe.The actress and the tennis star also share two other children; Sean McEnroe and Emily McEnroe. Following her drug overdose in 2020, Kevin helped take care of his mother, noting that the COVID pandemic made things difficult for her. "She had become very isolated," her son told the outlet.
"With the addition of morphine and heavier pharmaceuticals, it was getting scary. COVID, chronic pain, all these things led to a place of isolation. In that place, I don't think, for her, there was much hope." While she was in the coma, Kevin and his siblings were not sure exactly how things were going to go.
"At times, it was touch and go," he explained. "I had to call my brother and sister and say she was thought to be blind, deaf and potentially might never speak again." Once O'Neal came out of the coma, she could not speak.The "Paper Moon" actress "didn’t know where she was," her son recalled. "She couldn’t say, ‘I'm scared.’" "The Runaways" star is now working on her sobriety.
In the wake of her near-death experience three years ago, Tatum O’Neal is looking to rebuild her relationship with her father, Ryan O’Neal. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, O’Neal shared her recent journey reconnecting with her dad.
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Tatum O'Neal is opening up about a near-fatal overdose she suffered in 2020 that has left her with a years-long recovery journey.In a new interview with, the 59-year-old actress is joined by her son, Kevin McEnroe, as she details the moment in May 2020, when she overdosed on combination of painkillers, morphine and opiates. Following her near-fatal overdose, the Oscar-winning actress suffered a severe stroke and was in a coma for six weeks.«I almost died,» the actress tells the magazine.In the interview, 37-year-old Kevin shares that he and his siblings have always been prepared to receive that news.«It was the phone call we'd always been waiting for,» Kevin says. «She also had a cardiac arrest and a number of seizures.
People magazine.During the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, the “Paper Moon” child star started abusing her prescription medication, prescribed for body aches and rheumatoid arthritis.A few months later, in May, a friend found the Oscar winner overdosed on pain medications, opiates and morphine in her Los Angeles apartment.The news did not surprise her son, Kevin McEnroe, 37, the oldest of her three kids with former husband tennis legend John McEnroe.“It was the phone call we’d always been waiting for,” her son confessed.O’Neal, 59, struggled with her mental health during the pandemic, “COVID, chronic pain, all these things led to a place of isolation. In that place, I don’t think, for her, there was much hope.”The actress was rushed to the hospital and was diagnosed with aphasia, a disorder that results from damage to the part of the brain that is responsible for language, according to the NIH.“She was in a coma,” said Kevin.
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