Tatum O’Neal, daughter of the late Ryan O’Neal, shared a tribute to her father to Instagram on Sunday. “Thanks everybody for all of your love and assist. He’s in heaven now,” she stated in an Instagram video, adopted by a montage of images of the pair collectively. “Me & my youngsters beloved you a lot, daddy. You’ll ceaselessly be in my coronary heart. Maintain one another shut, everybody. Life is a journey,” she captioned the submit.
Tatum beforehand gave an announcement to Individuals concerning the passing of her father, who died final Friday. “I really feel nice sorrow with my father’s passing,” she advised the outlet. “He meant the world to me. I beloved him very a lot and know he beloved me too. I’ll miss him ceaselessly, and I really feel very fortunate that we ended on such good phrases.”
Ryan and Tatum have been estranged on and off for a few years following Tatum’s Oscar-winning efficiency in Paper Moon. “He beloved me, however then hated me, as a result of I received the Academy Award,” Tatum mirrored in an interview earlier this yr. “Bizarre shit occurred. It form of went within the fallacious route to happiness.”
Regardless of the estrangements from his youngsters and quite a few different controversies surrounding the actor, his son Patrick wrote that Ryan “has all the time been my hero” within the announcement of his father’s passing on Instagram. He later condemned unfavorable protection of Ryan’s legacy, writing, “I’ll share my father’s legacy ceaselessly. I cannot be deterred from outdoors voices that say unfavorable issues. In the event you select to speak shit about my dad, though you don’t have any clue what you’re speaking about, you’ll get referred to as out.” Patrick went on so as to add, “Ryan by no means bragged. However he has bragging rights in Heaven. Particularly relating to Farrah [Fawcett, Ryan’s longtime partner]. Everybody had the poster, he had the true McCoy. And now they meet once more. Farrah and Ryan. He has missed her terribly. What an embrace that should be. Collectively once more.”
Tatum, who suffered a stroke in 2020, reportedly had the chance to reunite together with her father a number of instances earlier than his dying. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter earlier this yr forward of a gathering with Ryan, she mirrored, “I feel he’s gotten just a little bit higher in his life. I imply, he’s an incredible man, my dad, and I miss him terribly.” Requested if she forgave Ryan, a longtime most cancers survivor, she stated, “I don’t need him to die. I really like him. I really like my dad. I imply, I’ve had a tough life with my dad—however I nonetheless love him.”
