In a sad segment on Tuesday's Today Show, Ryan O'Neal came off as a broken man, admitting his failure as a parent and his profound loneliness without longtime love Farrah Fawcett, as he himself now battles cancer.
Ryan who abruptly left the show's set for a scheduled chat Monday said he'd "just broke out into a terrible sweat.
"You wouldn’t have wanted me," Ryan said, looking tired with a bandage on his nose.
Asked if he'd indeed had a panic attack, O'Neal said he assumed he did, though he "never had one before."
The subject of his kids came up and it made for extremely uncomfortable TV: The father-of-four -- Patrick, Tatum, Griffin and Redmond -- was honest in assessing his accountability in the the addiction issues of the latter three, and past jail histories of the latter two.
“Were you a bad parent?” Lauer asked the Love Story star, who said contritely, “Looks like it, doesn’t it? Sure looks like it … I suppose I was.”
Ryan said he "wasn't trained” to be a father, and can't continue to be held accountable for his children.
"Griffin is 45, Tatum is 49, who’s the other one? Redmond is 27. They have to take hold of their own existences.”
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Ryan who abruptly left the show's set for a scheduled chat Monday said he'd "just broke out into a terrible sweat.
"You wouldn’t have wanted me," Ryan said, looking tired with a bandage on his nose.
Asked if he'd indeed had a panic attack, O'Neal said he assumed he did, though he "never had one before."
The subject of his kids came up and it made for extremely uncomfortable TV: The father-of-four -- Patrick, Tatum, Griffin and Redmond -- was honest in assessing his accountability in the the addiction issues of the latter three, and past jail histories of the latter two.
“Were you a bad parent?” Lauer asked the Love Story star, who said contritely, “Looks like it, doesn’t it? Sure looks like it … I suppose I was.”
Ryan said he "wasn't trained” to be a father, and can't continue to be held accountable for his children.
"Griffin is 45, Tatum is 49, who’s the other one? Redmond is 27. They have to take hold of their own existences.”
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