Tatum O’Neal says he fell into a coma after overdosing three years ago: ‘I almost died’

Three years after a hospitalization, which became news in the United States, actress Tatum O’Neal, 59, said she had gone through a big scare. Daughter of actors Ryan O’Neal and Joanna Moore, she was in a coma for six weeks after an overdose. “I almost died,” she acknowledged herself. “It was a combination of painkillers, opiates and morphine that nearly killed me.”

Star of the movie “Paper Moon” (1973), for which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 10, Tatum told People magazine that she had a stroke as a result of the overdose and lamented her chemical dependency: “I’ve been addicted my whole life , with ups and downs over the last 30 to 40 years.”

The actress’s eldest son with tennis player John McEnroe, Kevin, 37, commented in the interview that the family arrived “I had to call my brothers (Sean, 35, and Emily, 320, and say that she would be blind, deaf and that she could never talk more,” he recalled.

When he woke up from his coma, Tatum couldn’t even speak. It took two years of rehabilitation, which made her recover her memory and most of her abilities. She couldn’t talk or even know where she was,” Kevin recalled. “I’ve been trying to stay sober. Every day, I’m trying because I want to be with my three beautiful children. “, added the actress

In addition to ‘Lua de Papel’ (1973), Tatum O’Neal worked in productions such as ‘Boys in Bullet Point’ (1976), ‘The Runaways: Girls of Rock’ (2010) and ‘Possession – The Last Stage’ ( 2019).