Bad News Bears: Ryan O'Neal Hits On Daughter Tatum

What's worse: flirting with someone at your longtime love's funeral, or flirting with your own daughter? What about both! 68-year-old Ryan O'Neal admitted the creepy encounter in an interview with Vanity Fair, recounting the story as such: "I had just put the casket in the hearse and was watching it drive away, when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me—Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick." At least one of them recognized the other—maybe this means Tatum is sober now. The actress, who was busted for buying crack and cocaine on the LES last year, says, "That's our relationship in a nutshell. You make of it what you will. It had been a few years since we'd seen each other. And he was always a ladies' man, a bon vivant." No word on if the two have talked since. Estrangement means never having to say you're sorry?

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By Jen Carlson in News on August 3, 2009 11:19 AM

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NannyState

What would David Hinckley think about alol this? I hear St. Elizabeth's is scheduling another weekend release...

sexisicilian

Wow. She was not even buried yet. How quickly one forgets ... I thought that Farrah was his "soul mate" and he was trying to pick up his own daughter & admits to it?

pumpkin13

Just... gross.

Think2wice

You can always count on a Hollywood family from the 60's and 70's to give a whole new definition of dysfunction.

Snoopy

This is a love story gone wrong. Good thing Ali McGraw got out of the situation early.

What a douche this guy was and is.

Mr Mel

John McEnroe got out just in time.

etypical

"I don't think I was supposed to be a father. Just look around at my work -- they're either in jail or they should be."

That part gave me pause, what does he know that the authorities don't? This is a seriously effed up family.

whitecastlerock

Under what heading does this fall? Arts and Events? News? Popular? Scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one...

Fer Camberos

Wow, yeah this was a little shocking to say the least, he went two for two on this one huh? Awesome!

Jen Chung

This is really depressing and sad—and how he says, "I don't think I was supposed to be a father. Just look around at my work -- they're either in jail or they should be." Yikes.