Ryan O’Neal says he has been so estranged from his daughter Tatum that he hit on her at Farrah Fawcett’s June funeral because he didn’t recognize her.

“I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me,” Ryan tells the September issue of Vanity Fair. “I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me–Tatum!’ I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.”

Tatum says she wasn’t creeped out, either.

“That’s our relationship in a nutshell,” says the actress, who won an Oscar at age 10 for starring with her father in Paper Moon. “You make of it what you will. It had been a few years since we’d seen each other, and he was always a ladies’ man, a bon vivant.”

Tatum had struggled with addiction growing up and hadn’t spoken to her father in years. Penning her 2004 memoir A Paper Life didn’t help their relationship, either.

“She wrote a book–b***!” Ryan recalls thinking. “How dare she throw our laundry in the street for money!…

Tatum says her father “has every right to be angry about the book; no parent wants to hear their kid saying s**** things about them… But what I wrote in the book was true. I’ve got a battle with drugs, but I’m a strong, independent person, and I fight for myself, and my father and I butt heads.”

“When I was 16 years old, he and Farrah moved in together, and after that I saw my dad periodically, and that took a long time for me to get over,” she says. “Would I do that to my kids? No, but I don’t think Farrah was responsible for that. I truly thought Farrah was inspirational and beautiful and kind. Anyway, it’s past; I’ve moved on. I’m older now, and I forgive him.”

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“Please take care of my boy – make sure he has a good life.”

Those were Farrah Fawcett’s heartbreaking last words to her longtime love Ryan O’Neal before she slipped into a coma and lost her valiant battle with cancer, sources exclusively told The Enquirer.

A sobbing Ryan answered her deathbed plea by vowing to look after the couple’s troubled 24-year-old son Redmond.

As she lay dying, the 62-year-old Charlie’s Angels star was not told that her beloved “Red” was behind bars for drug offenses, insiders say.

A heavily sedated Farrah “mistook Ryan for Red a number of times in her final days, and she was so out of it that she barely knew what was happening in the end,” said the friend.

“She didn’t realize Red was in jail, which was a blessing in some ways. If she’d known, she would have been distraught.”

“Farrah would never marry Ryan. She wanted everything to be left to Red – that’s always been her wish,” said the friend.

“Before she lost her ability to speak, her last words to Ryan were, ‘Please take care of my boy – please make sure he has a good life.’ Farrah felt guilt for not always being there for Red.

“She regretted the time apart from the true love of her life – her son. Redmond felt guilty, too, because he felt that he’d failed her as a son.

“When he was allowed out of jail to visit her at home in April, Farrah was so heavily sedated on morphine that she didn’t even realize he was wearing shackles.”‘

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THE INSIDER is reporting that actor Ryan O’Neal pleaded guilty this morning to possession of a controlled substance.

The 67-year-old actor received deferred entry of judgment, which is an 18-month program. Ryan’s next court date takes place July 10th in Malibu.

His son Redmond’s case was continued to February 20th for arraignment and plea. The father and son were arrested on September 17, 2008 after drugs were allegedly found at the family’s Malibu home.

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