Tatum O’Neal is trying to piece her life together after a debilitating stroke. The actress suffered a life-changing stroke in May 2020 caused by a prescription drug overdose, which left her in a coma for over a month.
One of the side effects was the loss of speech, though she’s slowly learned to heal since then. “I’ve had problems with drugs for many, many years,” O’Neal recalled of the incident to The Hollywood Reporter. “But I overtook my medicine, for sure.
And that’s it. I fell asleep. That’s what happened.” READ MORE: Tatum O’Neal Reveals Painful Battle With Rheumatoid Arthritis: ‘My Hands Stopped Working’ Since then she’s attempt to take the opportunity to reshape her life and heal the pain of the past, including her fractured relationship with her father Ryan O’Neal. “My father and I are going to have a conversation,” she said of her upcoming reunion with him, after almost two decades of separation (barring a meeting in September 2020 in the immediate aftermath of her stroke when she couldn’t speak. “We’re just going to talk.
I hope it will work out. We’ll see. I pray that it will.” Her father was the one who brought her into the world of Hollywood at the young age of 10, when they played a father-daughter pair in “Paper Moon”.
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