Interesting tactic, this.
Oscar-winning actress Tatum O’Neal tearfully expressed gratitude for the cops busting her crack-buying ass yesterday, saying they “saved” her before she was about to relapse.
“I’m still sober!” she announced to me, two hours after being sprung from a night in jail, rumpled but far more rested and relaxed than I might look after a warm shower and heavy doses of caffeine.
“Just when I was about to change that and wreck my life, the cops came and saved me!” Tatum crowed.
“I was saved by the bell, by the guys in the Seventh Precinct.”
So she’s claiming the War on Drugs suddenly found success and rescued a former addict — one who wrote a book about how important it was to maintain sobriety — before she had even a sample of the drugs? How fortunate is that timing?
Whaaaat? I thought she was ‘researching’ a part.
Chemical dependency is not a joke. A single hit can send you back in Hell.
On the other side, this sounds like a deliberate attempt at spin-control more than a miraculous event. Time will tell if she’s really sober or not.
She needed a near-relapse in order to write a sequel.
The latest excuse was that she was upset her dog died.
Very elegant spin. Velvety smooth bullsh*t.
Hey — at least she’s still in the running for PETA’s “sexiest celebrity vegetarian” award.
I’m sure they didn’t serve her any meat in the city lockup, right?
Right?
at first she said she was “researching a part” then today she said she relapsed because her dog died. i read about this a few days ago and thought ‘how embarassing’ lol
Another PETA whore on drugs. There is a connection!
If I gave up meat I’d have to take drugs, too.
Of course the Cops saved her. She didn’t succeed did she? Any one who knows someone with an addiction problem knows they are powerless over drugs and can relapse at anytime. She is a sick and damaged woman. Leave her alone and go pick on someone else…
Like Tom Cruise.
This is probably going to sound a little insensitive, but even though I sympathize for drug addicts *to an extent*, they brought the problem onto themselves by doing it in the first place.
Some people actually have things that are wrong with them outside of their control. Drug addiction is not one of them.
I do feel a little sorry for her, but at the same time, I think that if a celebrity is a known addict , that when they are caught, they need to just shut up or say, “Yep, I was out for some crack, what about it?” I would respect the honesty over the excuse any day of the week.
I read the link in the post - the one to the interview about her life and the book she wrote. Brutal really. I hope she pulls it together.
Drug addiction is something that stays with you for life. I know that maintaining sobriety is difficult and I don’t pitty anyone who falls off the wagon; however, it sucks that some a-hole is there to take her picture for the world to see so a bunch of less than perfects can comment on how less than perfect she is. It’s so easy to come up with the should’ve, would’ve, could’ve if you were in the situation sitting behind your computer. You don’t know what she has or continues to live through. What is hypocritical about falling off the wagon, or trying to save face? Usually your posts are entertaining, but this is in poor taste.