repressive regimes. governments may be able to silence individual voices of protest, but they can't put the genie back in the bottle and they can't stop the "irevolution." tonight it be tatum o'neal, her bat. >> caller: addiction to hell and back. now she tells her incredible life story. the drugs, her marriage to bad boy john mcenroe and most of all, a troubled relationship with her father. tonight tatum o'neal talking as never before about ryan. your brother said that your father gave him drugs. did he do that to you? >> you'll have to ask him. >> why are you relauk at any time to talk? >> because we have a show we're doing. i just don't want to say incriminating things that are going to make it harder to kind of make peace. i know for sure my dad made a lot of mistakes. i am sure that he's living with

them today. >> this is piers morgan tonight. tatum, welcome. i want to show you an incredible moment from your career to kick things off. >> okay. >> and if you ain't my pa, i want my $2 $200. >> huh? >> i want my $200. i heard you through the door talking to that man. it's my money gout and i want it. i want my money. you took my $200! >> will you quiet down here. >> i wan my $200! >> that was the role that made tatum o'neal a superstar, "paper moon." her life offscreen has been tumultuous. that life is documented in "ryan and tatum, the o'neals." debuting on the o network. you're like part of my life. we were almost born in the same

year. when you were winning your oscars, i was dreaming of winning oscars. i grew up with your dad and the whole thing reverberating. >> great. i always thought were you part of our family. so here we are. we look a little alike. >> maybe we are part of the same family. tell me this, fascinating the history between you two. it's been checkered to put it mildly. do you have an overwhelming sense of relief, both of you, do you think that at least you've managed to get back to somewhere, even if it's not perfect yet in. >> exactly. i think that the conversation has started an that's all i could have asked for because we had such trouble just having the conversation just saying hello, just getting to what's your day like and can you come over for father's day on sunday which my dad asked me earlier today and i

said yes. we just get caught in the little things and i think having the cameras there almost because we are actors in a way made it easier and made it more comfortable. >> how did you feel when he asked you out on father's day. >> i felt like i would be there for him because it's father's day and it is the day our show launches and it seemed like the right thing to do. >> have you watched it together yet? >> no. >> what are you expecting? >> when we watch it together? >> are you going to be sitting there on sunday? >> it's going to be at 10:00. i thought i would be tired so i might want to go back home. but um, if he wants me to, i will. you know. because i want to tweet during it and everything so -- he doesn't know what that is and i don't know if i get reception in malibu. so -- >> i get the sense that you probably -- everywhere you've been in terms of the media for the last 25 years, it's always about tell me about your dad, do

you hate your dad, is your dad talking to you, and so on. >> it is really true. during my book tour a little bit, it's like what does your dad think about the book and what does your dad -- how did he get that temper and at a certain point i just said, you know, i don't know and maybe you should ask him. but he'll get to. and you'll probably not even ask me about him. >> i will ask you about him because i'm going to interview him after i interview you. i've never been in that position before. that whole dynamic is fascina fascinati fascinating. >> for sure. >> i think when he pushed you -- not pushed you but encouraged you into the same business, he was -- >> i would say pushed. >> he was the adult doing the pushing. >> yeah. >> he was shofrg shoving you through the fame door. when you see that little girl in "paper moon," a role that changed your life. when you see that, do you wish sometimes you'd never been pushed into that world?

>> i don't really think about that. i have the life i have. the alternative would be to maybe stay with my mom and her direction was going very badly. so i often think the best thing to do or the best decision that could have been made between the two would have been to be with him. i've had kind of an amazing life. you know? it's been hard, it's had some very big downs and some great ups. but i i don't think that i would take the girl next door, even though there are other families that i look at that i kind of admire. lately i've been thinking like the middletons and the way that they are with their father. there seems to be a big closeness there and i often think, oh, how lucky they are, you know, the girls. >> that must be -- it must be painful to see any father-daughter relationship

that you weren't able to enjoy. yours has always been so fractious and it was conapplicationed with your mother, too. >> right. right. >>. >> piers: not easy to look at people who have i presume what you would have had. >> right. which is likes consistency, stability, normalcy, that stuff. >> piers: you've always been his daughter. so that would have brought with it a kind of residual fame anyway. >> exactly. and i was his daughter when he did "love story" before i had ever done "paper moon." i used to go around bragging "my dad was in love story." >> piers: it was an amazing film, "love story." >> beautiful. >> piers: i've watched it countless times. >> beautiful film. >> piers: do you ever watch it? >> yeah. and "what's up, doc." >> real >> piers: really. >> yeah. with my daughter. >> piers: when you watch "love story," he has this difficult relationship with his father in the movie that they sort of come to terms in the end. >> but that is my dad.

my dad has that kind of seductive soft, sweet, gentle, loving side. so it's always so confusing when that side isn't always there and you're a little bit off balance, because he has a tempered side. so that's him. and that's what we all love. and that -- so he isn't all bad and he isn't all great but, neither are any of us. it's just a bit complicated. >> piers: what are the biggest misconceptions. >> about him? >> piers: let's focus on you. >> about me? >> piers: yeah. you think. for people who don't know you. >> um, perhaps that i would imagine that people probably think that maybe i'm a sort of frivolous drug addict who has it all and just decided to sort of throw my life away maybe? that isn't the case obviously.

i'm very sensitive and quirky and sometimes a weird person who, you know, fell into some hard times and have work very hard to come back and to have the best life that i can have. raise kids and be a mom and be a worker among workers and make a living and do all the things that as a sort of whole woman i would have liked to do had i not maybe had the big, big problems growing up. >>. >> piers: i'm not sure if the drugs played a down part in your life. >> i would say 98%, yeah. it's been very, very it's had a very negative effect. both in my physical body, my financial world, my relationship with my children. it kind of has screwed up every kind of possibility. so, yeah, i would have passed that whole thing and been fine. >> let's take a little break and

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>> piers: this was a scene from june 2008 when you i guess hit rock bottom. >> one of the times. it is not every time. >> piers: yeah. >> my worst times two. >> piers: this is where you had been arrested for buying crack cocaine. tell me the first time you ever took drugs. >> 11. in los angeles with -- >> piers: how did you get them? >> they were around. it was the '70s. it was around everywhere. it seemed to be around everywhere i went, funny enough. 12, 13. >> piers: people's houses? >> people's houses. >> piers: what was the drug? >> first pot. then quaaludes, i think. then -- first alcohol actually. and then just led on and on. >> piers: your brother said that your father gave him drugs when he was i think 11. did he do that to you? >> you'll have to ask him.

>> piers: why are you reluctant to say? >> because we have a show we're doing and it just -- i don't want to say incriminating things that are going to make it harder to kind of make peace and have it appealing. just every time i kind of bring up the bad stuff, it just doesn't go towards making a healing and getting us to a better place. i know for sure my dad made a lot of mistakes. i am sure that he's living with them today. >> piers: to be that age, i've got three sons, two are around that age. >> right. >> piers: the idea of them taking drugs just sickens me. horrifies me. >> it is disgusting. imagine my kids, too. even at 25. i mean it's criminal. >> piers: i mean it is. >> it is, yeah. and at the same time, he's my dad and for whatever reason, i decided that i was going to turn -- i was going to have

something to do with him and after 25 years of not talking to him at all and probably -- ending up being a good thing. i grew into the woman that i'm sort of still becoming and trying to be and luckily, he -- you know, there's never -- it's never too late to forgive someone and it's never -- and it's okay to give people a second chance, even if they are child molesters or -- i mean i believe that. and it's my family. you know? just because we're public, you know? it doesn't mean that there's -- i would always want to try to be forgiven especially because my dad was willing to kind of have the conversation with cameras. you know? he was willing to do that. to me that's a big deal. >> piers: no, i totally agree. >> right? that means like i don't know any father that would say, yeah, let's turn on the cameras and talk about the past. you know? it's not a fun place to look. even in great families.

so i fougthought it was pretty e of him. >> piers: what have been your worst moments involving drugs when you look back, the ones you felt most ashamed? >> obviously what you showed, the arrest. that was terrible. i've had terrible rock-bottoms with heroin where i thought i would definitely die and almost died. sadly. which i'm super grateful to be alive and to be well and to be sitting here. >> piers: how did you get into heroin? >> through a friend, a person, after my divorce. >> piers: still call him friend? >> no. >> piers: not much after friend. >> yeah. i mean you know what? it's not the person. it's me. i chose to take it. you know? he didn't like wrap me up and stick a gun to my head. it was my choice. so it's the thing is is that it's no one fault but yourself at the end of the day, and i did it, i wish i hadn't done it really, but at the same time, i am who i am for the experiences i've gone through, good, bad and

ugly. maybe i'm a nicer person or a loving mother because if i seen the dark side like that, because i have gone to hell and back. and i did almost die and i did shoot cocaine and i did lose my kids and i did get them back, and i put all of our family through a lot of hell. and i feel like how lucky am i that i can sit here and be in a good place and be able to talk to you and be able to like talk to my dad and have him maybe get to know me now, not a junkie and not dead and maybe he'll be proud of me. and maybe not. you know? maybe he won't love the tatum that i am today. but i hope so. and that's maybe what the show's going to be about. >> when you look at yourself now, what do you see and what do you think? >> i feel good about myself. i kind of like her. she's nice, she's friendly. she's outgoing. she's generous. she loves her kids and --

>> piers: yesterday for example -- >> i'm quirky. you know. >> piers: here's the thing. i never met you. i just read all this stuff obviously to get a mythical idea of someone. we bumped into each other on an elevator here. and i didn't recognize you. and then when you went, it's tatum. you're interviewing me tomorrow night! i thought there is this very attractive, normal looking woman. how can this be the crazy tatum o'ne o'neal? >> thank you for saying that. my friend said today, you don't look like that. people have a preconceived idea of what that looks like. i'm out here trying to dispel that idea that we all are human beings and we are allowed to have a second chance and people shouldn't just presume just because you've done a drug that's illegal that you're a bad person. i've never -- i've never -- you know, i never have gone out of my way really to hurt anybody. i have really gone out of my way to hurt myself and i am working on that today because that does

have a residual effect on my kids, my friendships, and on my career obviously. >> do you think you're winning the battle? >> i know i'm winning the battle. >> how lock have you been clean? >> i've been sober a year. >> are you proud of that? >> proud like beyond. it's a year but many years from the time i was strung out and coming drugs in manhattan years an years ago. when i used to be a heroin addict. so how could i not be proud? i'm like -- >> piers: you should be proud. >> i pray every day. i'm grateful. i'm so grateful i got a second chance that perhaps this journey that's been so difficult and so -- it's been so raw. you know? there hasn't been a lot of filter between me and the public, me and life, that this may help a young girl who is in a situation where she is using drugs and she feels ashamed and she can't stop and maybe she'll go to get help or she'll go to a

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>> piers: going to talk about farrah fawcett in a moment. but first, what's your view of

weiner gate and what's an addict really. >> first of all, it is really sad because he was kind of an ambitious -- really ambitious up and coming congressman who wanted to be mayor. so the idea that he self-sabotaged this hugely speaks to a definite addiction. whether it's he knew it was an addiction or not, i don't know. but it's a complete sabotage of everything and -- >> piers: do you recognize that kind of self-destructive -- >> yeah. it's almost like he had to do it in a way, seems like. even though he's married to one of the most beautiful women in the world. he had to kind of -- this compulsion speaks very highly to addiction and to -- >> piers: in terms of addiction, is it the same compulsion that would you have felt for heroin, that you know it is bad, you know it is wrong but you can't stop. >> i don't send any pick pictures of myself naked otherwise through the internet or twitter. i promise, i swear, and never have. so i don't know that. but i can imagine that the fact

that he did that so recently after his marriage speaks to an incredible compulsion to kind of -- that no matter what happens he had to do it kind of thing because it's -- twitter is a social media. it is not private. so -- >> piers: what's the best way for any addict to try and deal with it once this has all been blown up like it has? >> there are so many different ways now. you can reach out and get help. you can did to detox. you can -- >> piers: what did you find was the best way? >> for me a 12-step program worked for me. >> piers: did it save your life, you think? >> i know it is saving my life a day at a time. for sure. lucky me for fining it. it's funny because i had gone to ten treatments. i'm not saying that treatment isn't a great way to kind of detox an get better and find some help. but at the end of the day, there's a way that you can save lives. can you save your own life and i think it would be better to be great to get some more women in

there because i feel like women are not coming in as much as men to this program and not getting the help that they could -- >> how do you physically feel these days? >> amazing. >> piers: do you miss drugs? >> no. not even a little bit. not even -- >> piers: are you surprises about it? >> i'm grateful. i don't really think about it because it's like why should i think about something, if it's not broke don't fix it. but i'm just grateful that i'm -- that i don't need to change the way i feel. like i always felt so uncomfortable and so sad and so not worthy of the world that i needed to kind of change to survive and today i don't feel that. i feel very grateful. i feel very contented and comfortable in a way which i have never felt. and that's obvious, too, if you kind of look at me over the last decades or see other interviews or look an at oprah interview from when my first book came out. you can see i'm a jumpier girl, woman. i'm not -- i can't answer a question as well. i can't really look at you in

the eye as well and i do think that that -- it is what it is. i'm better so -- >> piers: in the middle of trying to recover, you got hit by a double whammy really, one big one, farrah fawcett who plays a huge part of your life in many ways. and also michael jackson. of course you actually dated for a while. >> well, he was my friend. you know? and we went on a date, although he was like a child at 18 and i was a real child at 13. so if you think about those ages, at the end of his life and the stuff that he went through, that could seem questionable that i was 13 and he was 18. but first of all, i just think it was really sad that two great people died on the same day. and that sort of farrah didn't get the kind of due she could have had perhaps -- >> to get both these pieces of news must have been such a weird experience for you.

>> we knew -- we knew that farrah was very sick. and we knew -- then i had been getting updates that she was getting closer and getting closer. michael jackson was a terrible, terrible, terrible shock. >> piers: hold it there. we'll have a short break and come back and talk more about this. because it is fascinating. i'm don lemon live in new york at the headlines at this hour. massive wildfires spreading throughout the western part of the country. red flag warnings are up in parts of seven states which means weather conditions are adding up to an extreme fire risk. dozens of fires are burning right now. but tear air is seeing the worst of it with a half million acres already burned. argentina's largest lake is filling with ash. it's coming from a volcano in chile which has caused headaches for air travelers from south

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>> piers: my special guest, tatum o'neal. asking you before we went to the break this awful day for you, michael jackson a long-time friend, then farrah fawcett dying. >> but then that ties into addiction, doesn't it? who knew he was even that adicked that he was taking something that could kill him every day? i mean that was tragic. and obviously farrah, i sort of lost something that i never had. i never really knew her well enough for her to really take in the role of being my mom. >> piers: you were 15 when your dad got together with farrah. that's an awkward age for any daughter. >> for me it was. >> piers: did you feel not a sense of abandonment -- >> i felt a sense of abandonment. >> piers: you did. >> oh, yeah. sure. he left me for her, for sure.

i didn't get mad at her though. i was mad at him. >> piers: did you ever get mad at her? >> no. no. because she was nice. you know? she was a nice woman and she was -- it wasn't her fault. it was my dad. it was -- he made the choice. so -- i kind of i think there was a point that first of all, i was 15 and she was the most beautiful woman in the world so i felt awkward most of the time around her and i was sort of like, you know, looking at her pictures and thinking, gosh, how am i going to kind of compete. >> piers: she was one of the most beautiful women in the world. >> it was a little off-putting so i was better off kind of figuring out my own -- >> piers: did you have any real relationship with her for a long time? >> just the one i write about in my book when i went to talk to her while when she knew she was sick in her apartment and got to kind of talk to her. i didn't.

? wh >> piers: when you did finally talk to her when she knew she was dying, what was it like with this woman who was a pivotal figure in your life without being one? was she sorry about what happened? >> no. there was a lot of sort of -- movie star denial in a way that -- our life isn't real and what we -- our responsibilities don't really apply to us kind of thing. so, no. but that was okay. like i wasn't looking for an apology. i just wanted to kind of say my respects and say that i was -- or show her that i was a woman, that i doing well, that i wasn't addicted to drugs, that i had three beautiful children, that i was doing okay and she was kind of very supportive, asking me all about myself and what was i doing. and i felt a sense really from her peers that she wanted to kind of be doing the things that i was doing and have the opportunity to be out and to be

working and stuff and then in a way i felt sad. beyond just sad for her sickness and -- but sad that she, you know, because she was always like a girl. you know? she was never really like -- is no do you think she was the love of your dad's life? >> well, i think so. i mean at this point it seems like, you know -- i wouldn't say no, it wasn't. i don't know anymore. he's just had so many women and there was so many before her. you know? i always say that she was the american one before he went through every great beauty in europe. >> piers: i mean the most uncomfortable story involving the three of you i thought was at farrah's funeral when not only does your father not recognize you, but he also hits on you. is this true? >> if you know my dad -- and you'll get to meet him -- you'll sort of see that he just is always joking and stuff. i'm not saying this was a joke,

but we had not seen each other at this point in -- i don't know, a good decade. i don't know how well he sees anymore and i'm not so sure that he hears very well either so speak up in your interview. but he just saw that i had all this sort of blon hair and that was in my face and he went, hey, how you doing? then he sort of went, oh, my god, it's you, tatum. i went yes, dad, it's me. how are you? >> piers: i mean the word awkward could have been invented for that moment. >> but we sort of laughed about it and that's how we are. we laughed about it. it wasn't like this, ooh, he's a lech. >> piers: is he basically a an incurable romantic. >> totally. you're so right. that is totally it. does it excuse terrible parenting? no. but that's it. he is. he's just -- that's his whole life and he doesn't understand anybody that isn't like that. because i'm not. i'm much more practical. >> piers: from an incurable romantic to an incurable man of many tensions.

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>> piers: tatum, you've had -- obviously it is a fascinating read, this book. >> thank you. >> piers: the love of it is by definition, pretty miserable. i feel for you. it is sad to read this stuff. >> not really all of it. >> piers: that's not what i want to say to you. amid all this stuff, the ups and downs of your life and the bad stuff, there's been lots of great stuff. in the end, you're tatum o'neal. you were brought up in hollywood rollty. you've had a fun life as well. tell me about the good stuff. >> it's funny you would ask that. right now is the nicest, the best time ever. and i think one of the funnest, if you will, or happiest or lightest was making our show and kind of doing that because it

was so weird and different and because we also think, you know, so low -- we just -- don't think very highly of reality television so the idea that we were going to kind of put our story out there was kind of like -- but at the same time, it was a different thing. it was more of a docu series and it was real, more real. >> piers: your dad in the '70s i read a survey he was only second to clint eastwood in the male leads. >> the hot s dude on the plan net. so i was this little sidekick. i had a good time. >> piers: what was it like walk around with ryan o'neal after "love story"? >> it was fun. i went to the faces concert. i went to the stones concert. i went to david bowie. i sat in the front row of the -- i mean i went to the stones in like the '70s. i had so much fun. zz top. we went everywhere. >> piers: what was the most? what was the most exciting thing this you ever did? >> i did some fun things with my ex-husband as well. we went to george harrison's

estate and spent the whole day with him and harrison and my ex-husband played tennis and my kids got to go through the moat. >> piers: you like george? >> and nice. so nice. >> piers: good tennis player? >> yeah. and his son was amazing. >> piers: i would never imagine john never liked to lose to anybody. >> into the even paeven -- i tht going around the world and meeting the people we've met. >> piers: who was the most impressive person you've met? who left the biggest impression on you? >> so far, i honestly would have to say oprah. like i'm not kidding. in terms of just giving me the biggest kind of life change or moment of -- for me tatum. it may be different for my dad. but i also was obsessed in the '70s with rod stewart and the

faces. >> piers: yeah. did you and rod ever -- >> never. >> piers: you were always tight. >> yeah. but no. luckily. i'm not saying i wouldn't if he had wanted to. but he didn't. >> piers: i bet he wanted to. >> no. he didn't do anything to me. he didn't even try. i would have. but i think i was -- >> piers: you must be offended? >> when i saw him with the faces it was 1975. >> piers: you were already -- >> pierhe wouldn't have gone that far. when mick jagger carried me out of a party -- >> piers: i bet he did. what happened then? where we is taking you? >> he was taking me to the car because i was sleeping because i was 11. there was a lot of fun, exciting memories, a lot of great parties, a lot of interesting people. woody allen once i was sitting at a table with him and i was cutting my food. he goes what are you doing? i go, well i'm cutting my food. he goes, no, no, don't do that. don't ever do that again.

it was squeaking and i didn't know that. i was like okay. then i never did that again on a plate like -- going -- >> piers: every time you hear a squeaking -- >> i think of woody allen going, okay, tatum, put that down. i go okay. it's been like that a lot. there are so many of those experiences. >> piers: do you think -- your dad in "love story" was so meds mer rising as star. >> right. >> piers: that you kind of imagined when you watched it he was going to go on to be the great romantic lead for the next 20 years and he didn't really. why do you think that it never really happened in the way it should have done? >> i'm not really sure. i have some suspicions but i'm not sure. >> piers: what are your suspicions? >> i wouldn't tell you because they're my suspicions so i'm not going to say it on national television. >> piers: they sound really juicy. >> i think people sometimes go down a wrong path and that path isn't the path that would bring you the kind of success that would be 20, 30, 40 years later

and i think that that's okay and we need to forgive those people. you know? >> piers: would you like to be in a movie again? >> i think i would like to be working in a way that was just where i would be considered kind of thing. that's more than just being in any movie. i think i want to be able to just have the possibility. and i think i'm sort of getting back a little bit to that but -- >> piers: do you get offers at the moment? or are they still wary? >> i think people are wary. that's fine. >> piers: are they right to be? would you employ yourself right now? >> i would totally employ myself. i'm a great talent. i mean i am. so i would from a second because i think there aren't enough people that are really talented. >> piers: what's the best advice oprah's given you? she's a wise lady. >> piers: well, she said to me at the oprah own kind of launch of own, she said, tatum, 2011 is going to be the best year you've

ever had. and i just think maybe that there's a little truth to that. >> piers: she gives people hope, oprah. i think. i interviewed sarah ferguson who's got her own show on own as well. >> that's right. >> piers: she said the same thing, she had a real affinity to oprah that she can't quite explain but i got it. >> i just think that she always says that there was something broken in her and that she was able to fix it in public, herself, without a man, without all the accoutrement that sort of are the things that women think that they can and i think that that is the message. message is don't ever not get up. get up and believe and keep believing because you can redo everything and that is sort of my hope for 2 0011 and continui on is that i stay very busy, that i stay making money to support myself and kind of having the life that i have always dreamed of. >> piers: when you walk around,

what reaction do you get from the public these days? >> i get a lot of women saying "we love you, tatum!" because of the honesty with the books and so much. but now i'm on twitter. are you on twitter? >> piers: yes. are you not following me? >> well, i will now. >> piers: you better be. what's your address? >> tatum underscore o'neal. well i'm@piers morgan. we need to meet in cyberspace. >> no pictures, please! yeah. no. it's all looking up from here. that's all i have to say. thank goodness for that. i think i'm somewhat of a miracle and i don't quite know how that happened. >> after a short break. when we come back, i want to ask you that same thing really, do you think you're going to live happily ever after now?

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