Academy Award-winning actress Tatum O’Neal, who chronicled her recovery from drug addiction in a shocking 2004 memoir, was busted Sunday for buying crack on the lower East Side, cops said.
The 44-year-old daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal was nabbed after she was spotted handing money to a street dealer – three blocks from where she lives on East Broadway, police said.
A stunned O’Neal initially told cops she was “doing research for a part,” a police source said. When cops searched her and found two bags of drugs – one with crack, one with regular cocaine – and an unused crack pipe, she changed her story, sources said.