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Tatum O'Neal's in a familiar role: rehab
Tatum O'Neal followed the troubled actress script Tuesday - rushing off to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on her first full day of freedom after a weekend drug bust. Her hair and makeup were neatly put together, her sundress was a conservative navy and around her neck she wore a gold cross and a pair of sparkling golden angel wings. "I'm doing very well. I'm going to an AA meeting," O'Neal said as she stepped into a blue SUV outside her East Broadway apartment. "The whole thing is regrettable. What's good in what I did?" The 44-year-old "Rescue Me" actress was arrested Sunday evening just blocks from her lower East Side home after undercover narcotics officers spotted her buying crack and powder cocaine from a homeless street hustler. O'Neal at first told cops she was researching a role but changed her story when officers found two yellow bags of drugs and an unused crack pipe in her pockets, sources said. "I've been clean for a long time," the teary-eyed actress pleaded as she asked cops to give her a break, sources said. "Today was the first time I was relapsing, but you guys saved me! Can you let me go?" Instead, both she and alleged street dealer Allen Garcia were cuffed and put into an NYPD van about 7:30 p.m. on Clinton St. Another passenger in the van, Charles Anderson, 21, told the Daily News that O'Neal was still claiming to be working on a role after she was arrested. "She was saying it was for a part in a movie, like 'Sex and the City' or s--t like that," said Anderson, who had been charged with possession of marijuana about 40 minutes earlier. He spent the night in jail, pleaded guilty and was released. O'Neal was charged with misdemeanor drug possession and released without bail until her June court date. Her lawyer rejected a two-day drug counseling program for her, but the actress is likely headed for a rehab program. Garcia was held on $10,000 bail for felony drug sale.
Posted by: Fred 2008-06-06 |
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