Tatum O’Neal It is being cleaned about the recent relapse that occurred during a busy news cycle.
While marking her birthday and the election night on November 5, 2024, the actress said she started drinking.
“I was with my gay friends and it was like:” I’m going to take a glass of wine, maybe two “,” O’Neal, 61 years old, shared with Variety In an interview published Wednesday, February 26. “And then I liked,” OK, damn: I have a day of sobriety. “
While O’Neal attends recovery meetings over the zoom, Variety He reported that his sobriety is still a struggle. His son, Kevin Mcenroe, also expressed his desire for his mother to have a full year of sobriety under the belt “because I’m not sure he has ever heard the type of peace that comes with this.”
In addition to Kevin, 38, O’Neal also shares the 37 -year -old son Sean and daughter Emily, 33, with ex John Mcenroe.
In May 2020, O’Neal experienced a severe health scare when he was overlooking his Los Angeles apartment, which caused a serious stroke.
According to VarietyThe actress suffered chronic pain for rheumatoid arthritis during the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, a doctor was prescribed by morphine.
While O’Neal assured the fans he loved his children, he remembered that he did not want to live anymore.
“I love a lot, but I would have given me so much,” he said. “Part of me didn’t want to do it, you know?”
During the Coma of O’Neal, who lasted six weeks, his son remembered having a conversation with a doctor about his mother’s future. Kevin said he was confident that his mother would pass and overcome health obstacles.
“There is something that cannot be explained, that persists in even horrible situations that was put in,” he said. “It’s full of love, and I think it’s a thing with which he was born.”
Although O’Neal could not speak, walk or even see after its coma, it has continued to improve both physically and mentally.
“Now I don’t want to do -Mi,” O’Neal said. “Now I don’t want to take drugs again, really not.”
As for Kevin, he also sees a difference in his mother after his almost dead experience in 2020.
“There is something that has happened,” he said. “Maybe it is also the elimination of drugs and alcohol, and this feeling that is safe and lives. And there is this verve. “”
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis there is help. Call or send a text message to 988 or Chati to 988lifeline.org. Those fighting with substance abuse can contact the administration of Mental Health Services and Services Services (Samhsa) National aid at 1-800-662-Help (4357).