02:29 AM EDT 10/15/2009
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Redmond O'Neal Moved from Jail to Rehab Program
Originally posted 09/24/2009 06:15PM
Redmond O'Neal, the 24-year-old son of actors Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett, was released from a California jail Thursday after a judge ordered him into an in-patient drug rehab facility.
Saying Redmond was "doing extremely well," Judge Jane Godfrey of Los Angeles Superior Court sent O'Neal to the Impact Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in Pasadena, Calif., where he will participate in a one-year residential program. O'Neal's incarceration stemmed from a January 2008 drug arrest and a probation violation.
"Redmond has embraced recovery," his attorney Richard Pintal tells PEOPLE. "All of his reports are extremely positive. He has taken huge steps towards his new life. This has been a very challenging time for Redmond. He lost his mother while in recovery. He loved his mother dearly and that was extremely hard on him. It would be challenging for anybody, much less a 24-year-old coming to grips with his addiction and recovery."
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Redmond O'Neal Sentenced to Residential Rehab
Originally posted 09/18/2009 04:45PM
Five months after his arrest for bringing heroin into a jail facility, Redmond O'Neal pleaded no contest Friday in a Santa Clarita, Calif., courtroom and was sentenced to a minimum of one year in a residential drug treatment program.
O'Neal, 24, son of Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett, is expected to be moved from the Pitchess Detention Center – where he was already serving time for violating his probation on drug charges – to the Impact Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in Pasadena, Calif.
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Ryan O'Neal: I Should Have Been Much Kinder to Farrah
Originally posted 08/03/2009 11:55AM
Speaking publicly for the first time since the death of his longtime partner Farrah Fawcett on June 25, Ryan O'Neal says he wishes he could have a second shot at the 30-year relationship, and wonders if his own sometimes cruel character somehow led to her fateful illness.
The grieving actor, 68, tells Vanity Fair in its September issue (on sale Aug. 5) that he'd love to "do it over," given the chance, and in the process would change some unpleasant flaws in himself that caused Fawcett pain. "I would have been much kinder, more understanding, more mature," he says. "I'd lose some of the savagery. I don't know how she got cancer; maybe some of it was me."
O'Neal and Fawcett split up in 1998 after a tumultuous 20 years, and reconnected in 2001, after he was diagnosed with leukemia. O'Neal blames that split on, among other things, her menopause – and his own lack of sympathy.
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Redmond's Final Words to Farrah: A Promise to Be Good
Originally posted 07/21/2009 06:30AM
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Redmond O'Neal's final conversation with his dying mother Farrah Fawcett allowed him to express a vow to turn around his troubled life, says his father, Ryan O'Neal.
"I held the phone to her ear, so I'm not exactly sure, but I think it was about regret," the elder O'Neal tells Meredith Vieira in a Today show interview airing Tuesday. "And the horror of, of not being able to see her again. And the promise – the promise of a good life. Of a life that she would have be proud of."
Fawcett, who died of cancer on June 25, had not seen her incarcerated son since April, when the 24-year-old was granted a court-approved personal visit to her bedside. He was also permitted to attend, in handcuffs, her June 30 funeral. Redmond is currently serving time at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, Calif., for violating probation on a previous drug conviction.
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Ryan O'Neal: Redmond Showing Strength and Resolve
Originally posted 07/01/2009 03:50PM
During the difficult days since Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with cancer, Ryan O'Neal tells PEOPLE he has found comfort in connecting with his and Fawcett's only son, Redmond O'Neal.
"I'm so proud of Redmond and the strength and resolve he is showing since his mother's death," Ryan says.
Currently serving a jail sentence for violating his probation on drug charges, Redmond, 24, was allowed to attend Fawcett's funeral in Los Angeles Tuesday, where he served as a pallbearer with his father.
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Farrah's Funeral: 'Goodbye Sweet Girl'
Originally posted 06/30/2009 09:40PM
A tearful Ryan and Redmond O'Neal joined Farrah Fawcett's closest friends and family for the actress's private funeral Tuesday afternoon at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.
Fawcett's Charlie's Angels costar Kate Jackson, Marla Maples, Joan Collins and Tatum O'Neal were among the 200 guests attending the hour-long Catholic service, where longtime pal Alana Stewart and Fawcett's doctor Lawrence Piro delivered the eulogies.
"Goodbye sweet girl," said Stewart. "[Farrah] never felt sorry for herself during her illness ... she fought cancer furiously."
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Ryan O'Neal Asks Farrah to Marry Him
Originally posted 06/22/2009 10:30AM
Though Farrah Fawcett is "fighting for her life," Ryan O'Neal tells Barbara Walters, "I've asked her to marry me, again, and she's agreed," ABC News reports.
"We will, as soon as she can, say yes," O'Neal, 68, says about his companion since 1980. "Maybe we can just nod her head," he said, with a laugh.
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Producer Claims Ryan O'Neal Threatened Him Over Farrah Fawcett's Cancer Documentary
Originally posted 05/14/2009 04:50PM
A producer of the Farrah Fawcett documentary to air on NBC Friday has filed suit against Ryan O'Neal, claiming the actor "physically threatened" him to gain control of the footage chronicling Fawcett’s fight against cancer.
Craig Nevius – who is described in his suit as a "friend and confidant" of Fawcett's and is listed in the credits of Farrah's Story as an executive producer – states that he has a legally binding agreement with the critically ill actress that gives him authority over the project.
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Ryan on Farrah's Cancer: Why My Girl?
Originally posted 05/14/2009 08:20AM
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In one of the toughest questions anyone could face, Ryan O'Neal is asked if he is prepared to let Farrah Fawcett go. The leading man who made his name when he lost the on-screen love of his life in the 1970 tearjerker Love Story says he is.
"Semi-prepared to let her go," he amended while speaking to Meredith Vieira, in an interview that aired on Thursday's Today show. "I let her go weeks ago and weeks ago, but she came back," O'Neal, 68, said of the fluctuating condition of the terminally ill, bed-ridden actress.
"I keep promising to take her to Italy," he says in a lighter moment. "She said, 'I'll drive.' "
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Ryan O'Neal Recounts Farrah Fawcett's 'Terrible' Year
Originally posted 05/13/2009 08:50AM
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Describing Farrah Fawcett as "a fighter … committed to tell her story, no matter what happens," Today show co-host Meredith Vieira turned to the cancer-stricken actress's longtime companion, Ryan O'Neal, to delve into such topics as their troubled 24-year-old son Redmond, the couple's own tumultuous relationship and, of course, Fawcett's nearly three-year health battle.
"I think she may have believed that she would survive," says O'Neal, 68. "That's not how it's going. She's had a terrible time in the last year, a terrible time."
On Friday, NBC will air Farrah's Story, a two-hour documentary that Fawcett, 62, herself began filming when her initial diagnosis was revealed Sept. 22, 2006.
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