{"id":9749,"date":"2025-10-26T13:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=9749"},"modified":"2025-10-26T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:59:45","slug":"why-ryan-oneals-son-wasnt-invited-to-the-stars-funeral-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=9749","title":{"rendered":"Why Ryan O\u2019Neal\u2019s son wasn\u2019t invited to the star\u2019s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"113\" data-end=\"157\"><strong data-start=\"113\" data-end=\"157\">Ryan O\u2019Neal\u2019s Final Days and Family Rift<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"409\">Ryan O\u2019Neal battled leukemia and prostate cancer before passing away from heart failure on December 8, 2023, at 82. Once a Hollywood heartthrob known for <em data-start=\"313\" data-end=\"325\">Love Story<\/em> and <em data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"344\">Barry Lyndon<\/em>, his later years were marked by frailty and family estrangement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"411\" data-end=\"691\">O\u2019Neal\u2019s turbulent romance with actress Farrah Fawcett defined much of his life. They shared a son, Redmond, born in 1985, who has long struggled with addiction and mental illness. When Ryan was laid to rest, Redmond couldn\u2019t attend\u2014he was confined to a California state hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"1060\">Surprisingly, three of O\u2019Neal\u2019s four children missed the funeral. His son Griffin claimed he wasn\u2019t invited, despite driving from Texas to attend. Their relationship had been broken since a violent altercation in 2007. Daughter Tatum, however, reconciled with Ryan before his death after years of estrangement, saying she felt \u201cvery lucky\u201d they ended on good terms.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1062\" data-end=\"1318\">The small service of about 25 people was held at Westwood Memorial Park, where Ryan was buried beside Farrah Fawcett. Despite earlier controversy over Farrah\u2019s burial wishes, her close friend Alana Stewart insisted the pair\u2019s love was genuine and enduring.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1320\" data-end=\"1584\">Ryan\u2019s son Patrick, who arranged the funeral, continues to defend his father\u2019s legacy. After the Emmys initially omitted O\u2019Neal from their \u201cIn Memoriam\u201d tribute, Patrick criticized the Television Academy\u2014but later thanked them when his father was finally included.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C5_8JbYSkJg\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=1000&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fen.newsner.com&amp;rp=%2Fcelebrity%2Fwhy-ryan-oneals-son-wasnt-invited-to-the-stars-funeral%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwY2xjawNrCFFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFhWUF6Z2NoTHNwQlBxVzV4AR6D0_mgyxNuM0Vx1NHt2O0OUZEBXP1xCZY4rfTBUeL1J9DEg722x4GwM87CCg_aem_M#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A4239.200000001118%7D\" height=\"1112\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan O\u2019Neal\u2019s Final Days and Family Rift Ryan O\u2019Neal battled leukemia and prostate cancer before passing away from heart failure on December 8, 2023, at 82. Once a Hollywood heartthrob known for Love Story and Barry Lyndon, his later years were marked by frailty and family estrangement. O\u2019Neal\u2019s turbulent romance with actress Farrah Fawcett defined&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=9749\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Why Ryan O\u2019Neal\u2019s son wasn\u2019t invited to the star\u2019s funeral&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9752,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749\/revisions\/9752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}