O'Neal Fears Love Split Caused Fawcett's Cancer

3 months ago 04th Aug 06:30

Ryan O'Neal fears he was to blame for his late partner Farrah Fawcett's cancer battle, because he's convinced the years of pain he put her through contributed to her developing the disease.

The actor dated the Charlie's Angels star on and off for two decades before they split in 1998.

They subsequently reconnected in 2001 after O'Neal was diagnosed with leukaemia, and he remained by Fawcett's side throughout her struggle with anal cancer up until her death in June (09).

O'Neal opens up about his long relationship with the actress in a new Vanity Fair interview, in which he confesses to leaving Fawcett in 1998 for a younger woman - because the actress was going through the menopause.

But O'Neal regrets causing Fawcett so much pain and wishes he could turn back time to "do it over".

He tells the magazine, "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".

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 meRyan O'Neal

Meanwhile in other revelations Ryan O'Neal is still fuming about his estranged daughter Tatum O'Neal's decision to publish her controversial 2004 autobiography - accusing the actress of making money out of her family troubles.

Tatum, the 45-year-old daughter of O'Neal and first wife Joanna Cook Moore, admits her dad "had every right to be angry" after she came forward with shocking revelations about her relatives in her book A Paper Life.

O'Neal denied a string of allegations made in his daughter's memoir - including details of her parents' alleged drug use, her father's alleged physical and mental abuse of his children and claims she had been molested by a male friend of the actor.

Tatum adds, "No parent wants to hear their kid saying sh**ty things about them. Anyway, it's past; I've moved on. I'm older now, and I forgive him".

But Ryan admits he still hasn't forgiven his daughter.

He tells America's Vanity Fair magazine, "She wrote a book - b**ch! Howdare she throw our laundry in the street for money!"