Actress Tatum O’Neal has revelaed that she now mostly dates women.
The 51 year old actress who is the daughter of actor Ryan O’Neal, former husband of tennis champion John McEnroe and an academy award winner for her role in the film ‘Paper Moon’ is probably best known to queer audiences for her one episode role in ‘Sex and the City’ – where she didn;t appreciate the value of Carrie’s shoes.
Speaking to PEOPLE magazine the mother of three opened up about her dating life.
“I definitely have been dating mostly women recently … women are the most amazing creatures on earth.” O’Neal told the magazine.
“They’re gentle, and also more intelligent than the men that I’ve met recently. I don’t have a steady right now, but I look forward to it.”
O’Neal declined to label herself as a lebian telling the magazine that she was neither one or the other.
The actress is the youngest person to every win an Academy Award after she recieved the best supporting actress award for her role opposite her father in the film ‘Paper Moon’. O’Neal was just ten years old when she picked up the acolade.
O’Neal continued to have a successful career as a child actor appearing in films including ‘The Bad News Bears’ and ‘International Velvet’, but she acted infrequently in her adult life.
In the 1970’s as a teenager she dated Michael Jackson. In 1986 she married Tennis champion John McEnroe, the couple divorced in early ’90s.
O’Neal has published two autobiographies revealing that she was sexually abused by her father’s drug dealer as a teenager, had a difficult relationship with her father and a volitile marriage to McEnroe. The actress has also been open about her addiction to heroin and arrest for cocaine possesion.
OIP Staff
