O’Neal is Cracked Out

Tatum O’Neal has been candid about her struggles with addiction in the past. She has been honest about drugs she has done and where it has gotten her, but last night she decided that addiction was going to win. Unfortunately, when she went to get her fix, she ended up getting busted instead. Tatum who is 44 years old was caught buying cocaine and crack last night.

According to reports by The Post, the actress who won an Oscar at a mere 10 years old for her work on Paper Moon, was arrested at around 7:30 PM by detectives from Manhattan South Narcotics that work Clinton Street between Grand and East Broadway. The area where she was trying to score was mere blocks from her lower East Side luxury pad.

The funny thing is not that she was doing crack, because crack isn’t funny. It was the excuses she gave the police when they planned to take her in. She told them she was researching the part of a junkie. I don’t mean to point out the obvious, but, life experience is all that she would need for that part!

According to sources when police approached, O’Neal went into begging mode, saying, “You know who I am, right? I’m researching a part – I’m doing this for a part as a junkie. Can’t we just forget about this?”

Apparently, we can’t.

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