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Following her Sunday night arrest, Tatum O'Neal held her head high yesterday upon her release from the 7th Precinct, where she spent the night. The actress was busted buying crack and cocaine on Clinton Street, not far from her apartment in The Forward building, around 7:30 p.m. Not even a full 24-hours later she quickly came clean to The NY Post, thanked the cops for saving her, and is even trying to help the guy who sold her the drugs, Alan Garcia.
She told the paper that her recent struggle towards recovery was nearly ruined by Sunday's walk, but "the cops came and saved me!" As for what set her off, she explained:
"I lost my Scottish terrier, Lena," three weeks ago. "That seemed to set me off. She got old. She got cancer. She was the fabric of our family. We had to let her go to heaven. My daughter and I had to put her down. It was too horrible for words. I couldn't get out of it. I was going to my psychiatrist. I was doing everything I could do. I have the disease of alcoholism. It's lifelong. I treat it every day by going to my 12-step program."Yesterday The Post detailed how the drug deal went down, and reportedly she was found with "two yellow plastic bags of cocaine in her front pants pockets." While there was no further mention of crack, the paper did explain to her that she was also busted for that drug ("It's both?" she asked, surprised. "I didn't even know what I was buying!"). As for her night behind bars, O'Neal describes how she made the best of it:
"I slept on a mattress with a couple of ladies because I was tired," she giggled. "And they were nice! And I thought the thing that was cool about New York, no special treatment. No special cell."The Daily News retraces O'Neal's steps to rock bottom, and while everyone seems to be rooting for the actress -- her publisher is using her brush with the dark side as a selling point for O'Neal's 2005 memoir.
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Yep. That's one rich crack ho.
"She got old. She got cancer." For a moment I thought she was talking about herself.
That Post cover is a far cry from the pic you had up yesterday.
No special treatment, no special cell. Let's see if she keeps saying that as she goes through the legal system. I BET she doesn't get the same treatment as some other people that are busted with drugs.
Wow, I didn't realize she actually was the character she portrayed on Rescue Me!
She won't, nomnomnom.
There are two sets are laws in this country. Hollywood kinds of people and then the rest of us.
All these actress and actors have all the money in the world, yet everyday you hear about which actor or actress has entered rehab.
I think she has a rare case of Pinocchio syndrome. Her nose was a lot smaller in "Paper Moon."
You guys are criticizing her for being humble?
Humble? She's laughing her ass off because she got off so easy. Who does she think she is Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears?
I remember when she and McEnroe were having their custody fight, the craziest stories were being flinged between the sides. NUTS.
Being admittedly naive about the art of buying drugs on the street, I'm trying to figure out how she was able to identify a dealer and negotiate the transaction unless she'd already been in touch with him - or with a friend who connected her to him. I mean, the description above sounds a little like she was strolling around, upset about her dog and decided to buy some coke, so she hit up the first dealer who she saw. Could be a misread, but it seems a little odd to me.
Anna. It was through a friend of a friend who's cousin who knew the dealer. She's been clean since she left that other brat MacEnroe. Do you realize what he did for tennis? I guess not. Do you realize how professional tennis has changed this world for the better? I guess not. Without professional tennis ex-mayor David Dinkins would just be another politician.
Can we get real here? A spoiled brat gets clean and gets dirty and apologizes because she is saved? She had way too many opportunities in her life, unlike most of us, and she fucks up constantly. Hopefully she will move up to heroin and dies of an overdose.
"I mean, the description above sounds a little like she was strolling around, upset about her dog and decided to buy some coke, so she hit up the first dealer who she saw."
Sounds to me like she was sitting at home and decided to buy some coke, so went out and asked around. Seems plausible.
That was my point, Jay. I don't believe that she just "fell off the wagon" in the sense that it's portrayed. It seems like she had made the conscious decision to make the buy. However, what I didn't fully understand was how one just "asks" around for this sort of thing. Seems like a high risk approach, especially for someone who'd had a lot of experience using before. In this case, it was indeed high risk.
Wow. She's really looking rough; looks years older than she is.
Dude? You need smoke? Smoke? Man need smoke? It's Washington Square shit man. The good stuff. Need fireworks for the fourth dude, got'em dude.
Better looking things have been dragged from lakes. Crack is totally working for her.
Snoopy: I love your comment. Useless bitch like Tatum need to just END.
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