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Tatum O’Neal Is Still Here: The Oscar Winner on Surviving Addiction, a Stroke and Coming to Terms With Being Left Out of Her Father’s Will
Tatum O'Neal, the youngest Oscar winner in history, tells all to Variety about surviving drug addiction, a stroke and life after her father's death.
“Paper Moon” and her Oscar triumph were the start of O’Neal’s heavily scrutinized public life, then followed by teen movie stardom and a worrying wild-child presence in the pre-internet gossip press. Instead, O’Neal says, when she was asked to audition for Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” for the role of the child prostitute that would eventually yield Jodie Foster her first Oscar nomination, “my father said, ‘No, you can’t,’” because he thought it was “a little too naked” — but, of course, maybe it was just his jealousy talking. We’re having this conversation the day after the photo shoot, in the quiet, cozy dining room of the retirement community in the Valley where O’Neal has lived since she was able to leave the various hospitals and memory care facilities that got her through the worst of her post-stroke rehabilitation.
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