Ryan O’Neal’s son Griffin claims he was REJECTED from the late actor’s funeral – as friends reveal Farrah Fawcett didn’t want to be buried next to his longtime partner
Only one of Ryan O’Neal’s four children attended his memorial service last week — while his son, Griffin, claimed he wasn’t even invited.
The now 82-year-old Oscar-nominated actor died on December 8 in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure.
On Saturday he was buried alongside longtime lover Farrah Fawcett – although her friends claimed she did not want to be buried, but instead wanted to be cremated and have her ashes returned to Texas.
Patrick O’Neal was his only child to attend the funeral. His three remaining children, daughter Tatum, 60, and sons Griffin, 59, and Redmond, 38, were conspicuously absent.
O’Neal was last seen being helped into his vehicle from a wheelchair by an aide on November 6, 2023 in Brentwood, California
After the ceremony, Griffin claimed he had not been notified of the service.
He told The Post: “I wasn’t even invited to send him away.
‘I am the hated son who told the truth. Dark times in this family. Love means never having to say sorry – and Ryan never did that, to anyone.”
O’Neal’s and his son Griffin had a volatile relationship since childhood.
In a 2015 interview with People, Griffin said, “My life has been a period of drug and alcohol breakdown.
‘I had to self-medicate my whole life because there was pain everywhere.
“There were drugs all day, every day, everywhere in my family.”
Previously, in a 2009 interview with Vanity Fair, Griffin claimed that his father gave him cocaine when he was just 11.
Griffin O’Neal claimed he wasn’t invited to his father’s memorial service
O’Neal was known for his high-profile relationship with Charlie’s Angels actress Farrah Fawcett – and he was buried next to her despite claims from her friends that she wanted to be cremated
‘He was a highly abusive, narcissistic psychopath. He gets so angry that he no longer has control over what he does.’
Fawcett’s friends also told the New York Post that she did not want to be buried in LA, but instead wanted to be cremated and have her ashes returned to Texas.
Her University of Texas sweetheart told The Post, “She never wanted a funeral or a monument where people could come and stare at her.
“Ryan created this story as if it were a great love story.”
O’Neal and Charlie’s Angels actress Fawcett began dating in the late 1970s before welcoming their son Redmond in 1985.
O’Neal and Charlie’s Angels actress Fawcett began dating in the late ’70s before welcoming their son Redmond in 1985
Patrick, the Oscar-nominated actor’s son, was his only child to attend his graveside service
The late actor was buried in Los Angeles, CA at the Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery
O’Neal poses for a portrait at the Farrah Fawcett Foundation Presents the First Annual Tex-Mex Fiesta on September 9, 2015
The two were partners from 1979 to 1997, when he was caught in bed with actress Leslie Stefanson.
After their split, O’Neal’s daughter Tatum alleged that he physically abused Fawcett.
‘He had a terrible temper and was very violent. He beat her up,” she said.
Fawcett and O’Neal rekindled their relationship in 2001.
O’Neal’s children were born to three different women. His eldest, Tatum and Griffin, were born to his first wife, actress Joanna Moore.
Patrick was born to actress Leigh Taylor-Young, and his fourth child, Redmond from Fawcett.
When O’Neal spoke to Vanity Fair about fatherhood in 2009, he admitted, “I’m a hopeless dad.”
‘I do not know why. I don’t think I should have been a father.
‘Just take a look around my work; They are either in jail or they should be.”