PHOTO: Ryan and Tatum O'Neal Share an Awkward Father-Daughter Kiss

Us Magazine - November 17, 2009 3:31 PM PST
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A touching father-daughter moment or an awkward exchange?

After Ryan O'Neal had dinner with daughter Tatum O'Neal on Sunday at Malibu's Taverna Tony's restaurant, he bid her goodbye with a hug -- and an awkward kiss.

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This wasn't their first uncomfortable exchange.

Nearly five months earlier, at the funeral of his longtime love Farrah Fawcett, Ryan, 68, admitted that he accidentally hit on Tatum, 46.

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He says he had been so estranged from her that he didn't even recognize her.

"I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me," Ryan told Vanity Fair. "I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me--Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick."

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Tatum didn't find the incident disturbing.

"That's our relationship in a nutshell," said the actress, who won an Oscar at age 10 for starring with her father in Paper Moon. "You make of it what you will. It had been a few years since we'd seen each other, and he was always a ladies' man, a bon vivant."

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  • Desi C
    Ryan was there for Farrah during her terrible illness, and Farrah was there for Ryan during his illness. I will remember her bravery with that terrible disease. Farrah you should now REST IN PEACE.
    report abuseposted November 18, 2009 3:07 PM PST
  • T
    Well I do find that story very awkward. I cant remember is his leukemia in remission? Maybe he was on some type of medicine OR perhaps an illegal substance to get him through the funeral. Tatum likes to write books....are we to expect a revelation about incest between her and her father ala McKenzie Phillips?
    report abuseposted November 18, 2009 9:51 AM PST
  • xoxo
    He obviously failed at being a good parent to his children. Maybe he'll get it right in his next lifetime.
    report abuseposted November 18, 2009 12:21 AM PST
  • erin s
    he is a sicko!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    report abuseposted November 18, 2009 12:18 AM PST
  • pine nut
    leave em alone i am sure he hates the way he has lived his life its like too late to change any of it but if he wants to hug n kiss tatum more power to both...perhaps he can make some ammends B 4 he packs it in...........poor tatum she had a pretty rough road to grow up with her mother n ryan...she never had a chance..some r strong & able to push thru obviously she wasnt but it doesnt make
    report abuseposted November 17, 2009 4:54 PM PST
  • Doyourthang
    Ewww, what a perve
    report abuseposted November 17, 2009 4:17 PM PST
  • Rita
    Give them a break! Ackward to whom? Please! sick of press always trying to make something out of nothing!
    report abuseposted November 17, 2009 4:16 PM PST
  • Rita
    Give them a break! Ackward to whom? Please! sick of press always trying to make something out of nothing!
    report abuseposted November 17, 2009 4:16 PM PST
  • beebeeosh
    This is so sick!! He claimed to love Farrah sooo much, then turns around and hits on his own daughter at Farrahs funeral? Was he drunk or stoned?
    report abuseposted November 17, 2009 4:14 PM PST
  • honeychild
    my favorite movie of all time is paper moon but i've read that even back then, they had a strained relationship. i read that ryan was jealous of all of the attention tatum received from that movie. they were both great in the movie, its a wonderful film period. anyway, he has had issues and doesn't seem to be a very well adjusted person. kind of sad.
    report abuseposted November 17, 2009 4:02 PM PST
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