Tatum O'Neal
Tatum O'Neal
Tatum Beatrice O'Neal is an American actress and author. She is the youngest person ever to win a competitive Academy Award, which she won in 1974 at age 10 for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon opposite her father, Ryan O'Neal. She also starred in The Bad News Bears, in 1976, followed by Nickelodeon, and Little Darlings. She is also known for being Michael Jackson's first girlfriend...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 November 1963
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.
Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.
As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
I've triumphed over addiction.
I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.