Tatum O’Neal’s son has penned an open letter to his actress mom, through which he writes that he regularly blames himself for her overdose in 2020.  Tatum had a critical, near-fatal stroke in Might 2020 following a drug overdose that ended in a six-week coma and lasting harm to her speech and reminiscence.  

Within the pre-Mom’s Day letter shared via his website on Thursday, Might 7, 39-year-old Kevin McEnroe wrote that he regularly believed that she would try to kill herself if he did not pick out up the telephone when she known as, “till in the future I didn’t solution and you probably did.”

“Limitations, everybody says. I used to inform them that they didn’t perceive. That if I didn’t solution your name, it’s possible you’ll kill your self. Till in the future I didn’t solution and you probably did,” Kevin wrote.

Tatum has since been recognized with aphasia, however thru constant treatment labored on regaining a complete reminiscence and take hold of of her vocabulary.

Kevin additionally shared that he calls his mother via her first identify “as a result of every now and then I omit my mother,” however that he has come to comprehend that Tatum and “mother” are two other other folks.

The son of Tatum and Tennis participant John McEnroe persevered: “I name you Tatum as a result of your identify is Tatum but in addition as it used to be a reminder that perhaps, every now and then, I wanted extra, however that doesn’t imply I’m going any place — I do know me leaving has at all times made you scared.”

Tatum, 62, is mother to Kevin, in addition to daughter Emily, 34, and son Sean, 38, whom she welcomed with John, the mythical championship participant to whom she used to be married for eight years between 1986 and 1994.

John won number one custody in their children amid Tatum’s struggles with dependancy.

Kevin persevered: “However nowadays I will name you Mama, and I do. When I used to be little, you had been my mother, till your boyfriend gave you heroin. You had been my mother while you had been blank, between rehabs, however then every now and then you had been Tatum, too. Tatum used to go away in the midst of the evening and every now and then now not come again ahead of morning. 

“Tatum didn’t have a call. I used to suppose Tatum took my mother away. Now I believe Mother and Tatum simply sought after one thing other. I believe Mother and Tatum didn’t at all times get alongside.”

In her 2004 autobiography, A Paper Lifestyles, Tatum – the youngest individual in historical past to win an Oscars Award for her supporting position reverse Hollywood icon dad Ryan O’Neal in 1973’s Paper Moon on the age of 10 – attributed her struggles with dependancy to alleged bodily and emotional abuse by the hands of her father Ryan.

He at all times denied her claims.