Oscar-winning actor Tatum O’Neal opens up about overdosing and experiencing a stroke that led to a six-week coma during the height of the pandemic. “I almost died,” she says. “I’ve been through a lot.”
During the lockdown, O’Neal, 59, felt alone and had experienced persistent neck pain and aches from rheumatoid arthritis. In May 2020, she overdosed on pain medications, opioids and morphine. A friend found her, and she was taken to the hospital. Her family shared how the difficult conditions of the pandemic made her vulnerable.
“She also had a cardiac arrest and a number of seizures,” Kevin McEnroe said. “There were times we didn’t think she was going to survive.”diagnosed her with aphasia “At times, it was touch and go,” Kevin McEnroe said. “I had to call my brother and sister and say she was thought to be blind, deaf and potentially might never speak again.”“She didn’t know where she was,” Kevin McEnroe said. “She couldn’t say, ‘I’m scared.’”
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