Tatum O'Neal says she resumes her memory after an almost deadly blow
The 59 -year -old actor was also in a six -week coma following an overdose.
During his life, Tatum O'Neal was frank on his difficulties with the consumption of substances, and now, the actor revealed that she had suffered an almost fatal overdose in 2020. In a new interview with People , the former star child shared that the overdose made him have a stroke, which left him in a coma for six weeks. Tatum continues to heal physically and mentally, including the reproduction of her vocabulary and his memory - and continued his journey to sobriety. Read the rest to learn more about the 59 -year -old star battle.
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O'Neal overwhelmed on a combination of drugs.
According People , in 2020, O'Neal had taken prescription medication , some of which concerned rheumatoid arthritis and pain in its neck and back. But, when she overdosed in May of the same year, it was determined to come from a combination of prescription drugs, opiates and morphine.
A friend found O'Neal in her apartment in Los Angeles, and she was taken to the hospital. She was in a coma for six weeks and diagnosed aphasia, " A disorder that affects How you communicate, "who" usually occurs suddenly after a stroke or head trauma ", according to Mayo Clinic.
O'Neal "has undergone damage to his right frontal cortex," his son, Kevin MCENROE , said People . "Sometimes it was to touch and leave. I had to call my brother and my sister and say that she was considered blind, deaf and could never speak again." He explained: "She also had a cardiac arrest and a number of crises. There were times when we didn't think she was going to survive."
O'Neal shares his children - Kevin, Sean , And Emily MCENROE , all in their thirties - with his ex -husband, tennis player John MCENROE .
She woke up to see that she could not communicate.
O'Neal explained to People How it felt it woke up after six weeks in a coma.
"I woke up in a coma without any word, without anything," she said. "I didn't know where I was. I didn't know what to think. I didn't know what to do. And I didn't have, no words at all - nothing. And nobody could understand what was going To continue, if I was going to die or if I was going to live. And I lived. It's a miracle. " AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
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She recovered her speech but cannot read or write.
Now, three years after his overdose and stroke, O'Neal is still recovering. She shared that even if she can now speak, she "still can't read and write". THE Moonpaper Star added: "This is what it is ... I would like to have been able to read more real and the real writing, that I loved to do all my life." She also works to regain her memory.
As for her substance consumption problems, she said she regularly assisted meetings to achieve sobriety. "I don't want to drink anymore and I don't want to use anymore, but I do much better on this subject," she shared. "And I do so many meetings. I am impressed by myself about meetings. That I try so hard with sobriety, just every day, sometimes three or four times a day on Zoom. And that helps me such. "
She was opened on her dependence difficulties.
For years before his stroke, O'Neal had been published on his difficulties with drug addiction, including in his two Memoirs: 2004 A paper life and 2011 Found: the journey of a girl at home . She also opened on her difficult and traumatic education with her mother, Joanna Moore , and later with his father, Ryan O'Neal . The youngest winner of the Oscars of all time began to take drugs in adolescence and tried to commit suicide at 13 years old.
In an interview of 2011 with Night line , O'Neal admitted that She has become dependent on heroin After his divorce. "The drugs I liked to do, not the pain relievers, it is not what I would like to do. I prefer to do heroin or crack, something of this nature," she said. "Something really illegal, something really destructive."
In 2008, she was arrested while trying to buy crack in New York. Later, she pleaded guilty to disorderly driving and agreed to participate in a drug treatment program.
A 2017 interview with The independent explained that for his dependence, O'Neal had tried programs and 12 -step rehabilitation , as well as alternative treatments and therapies, such as EMDR (desensitization and reprocessing of eye movements).
She has more hope about her future.
O'Neal said People "I had a hard, hard, hard, hard, hard life. And I rarely cry, but I cry much more recently and it is a very good thing for my life and in general when I continue to move forward in my life." THE Bad news Star added: "Am I sure where I'm going to go afterwards? No, and my children are not sure either, but I try to improve myself."
Kevin - who has also fought against drugs and alcohol and is more than three years old - shared that he hopes for the recovery of his mother.
"In the world of recovery, there can be a time when you feel," I cannot continue to live in this way. "And I think that's what happened," he said. "Now, I see an enormous amount of hope. So for me this last chapter where she wants to live, wants to become sober, wants to learn, I think it's a miracle. I think it's beautiful. I don't ' I have never been more proud to be her son. She is full of love and full of heart. "
O'Neal said: "Every day, I try. I want to be with my beautiful three children."
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