Ryan O'Neal Didn't Recognize Daughter Tatum

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Ryan O'Neal in a post-mortem of his days with the late Farrah Fawcett has beat himself up with blame. At Fawcett's Los Angeles funeral O'Neal was so grief-stricken he didn't recognise his daughter, Tatum.

"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. 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." O'Neal, 68, says of his 30-year relationship with Fawcett, "I would have been much kinder, more understanding, more mature. I'd lose some of the savagery. I don't know how she got cancer. Maybe some of it was me." O'Neal and Fawcett split up in 1998, after 20 years, only to get back together in 2001 when he came down with leukaemia. O'Neal talks of Fawcett's menopause in the Vanity Fair interview. "I believe Farrah was going through some kind of life change. I didn't have a change of life. I was always a jerk. But they're hard work, these divas. I was sick of it, and I was unappreciated. I just don't think she liked me very much. So I excused myself."

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