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Good lord ... I had no idea Tatum O'Neal was on crack!
As you've probably heard, the actress/daughter of Ryan O'Neal/ex-wife of John McEnroe was busted for buying cocaine and crack last night near her Lower East Side apartment!
And here was the excuse she gave the cops, according to the New York Post:
- "You know who I am, right?" Then she said, "I'm researching a part - I'm doing this for a part as a junkie. Can't we just forget about this?" !!!!
She was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. -- Yikes!!!
Tatum was the youngest actor ever to receive an Oscar -- she won best supporting actress for her role in Paper Moon in 1974.
She struggled with drug and alcohol addiction but entered rehab an claimed to have beaten it by 1996. She claimed, in her 2004 memoir, A Paper Life, that drinking and drugging were in her blood since her mother, the late actress Joanna Moore, was an alcoholic and hooked on amphetamines as she raised Tatum and her younger brother Griffin in LA.
The actress, 44, has three children with McEnroe.
Tatum recently said in an interview that she had sympathy for Britney Spears and that it wasn't until she herself moved out of LA that she started to gain control of her life and escape the pressures of Hollywood.
O'Neal had appeared in various TV roles recently, including a guest appearance on Denis Leary's Rescue Me.
