LOL, same here. My childhood sucked and I was miserable until I was able to get out at 18. I may be terrified of commitment and prone to depression, but hey, at least I'm a self-sufficient, functioning adult who takes care of her own sh*t, instead of some useless, whining, entitled drain on society.

Wow. My mom and I were just talking about Farrah Faucets son yesterday.

What's up with these people. For some, it's like they're angry at their parents for raising them in privilege. whatever losers. Enjoy your miserable existence.

Ummm, I am pretty sure that is what he is saying, that he was a terrible father. Are you reading something different?

Precisly.

He's not fooling anyone. He is a piece of shit and his children are a product of his shit. I'm not about to target his crap daughter or crap son when I know where the source of that shit stems from.

And I don't see his kids doing any of this desperate celebrity shit either. They're too busy hating their shit father for their shit upbringing.

"As far as I am concerned Anon, they are all seriously messed up in the head adults and don't deserve an ounce of consideration with the exception of a really good psychiatrist and/or drug counselor."

Well said!

I know, right? Excuses get made all day long for every member of that family, EXCEPT Ryan. So typical of RA. He's the chump. All eyes on him and all fingers pointed at him. Oh, and at Farrah, when she was alive.

From People:

"Friends say there was a "Berlin Wall" between the parents—one was either in Ryan's camp or Joanna's, never both. What little order Tatum and Griffin knew came in the form of weekend outings with Ryan's parents, playwright Charles "Blackie" O'Neal, 79, and his wife, Patricia, 75, a former actress.

In December 1971, Joanna )HELLLOOOOOO, BM ALERT!!!) entered an L.A. hospital for drug treatment, and Tatum went to live with Ryan in Malibu. Griffin stayed with his mother until 1977, when, 12 years old and seeking what he called "a father figure," he joined Ryan and Tatum in Malibu.

They made an unusual triangle. Tatum had become an instant celebrity when she won an Oscar opposite Ryan in 1973's Paper Moon, and their relationship was not typically father-daughter. "She was his female companion, but in a very healthy way," (OH YEAH, HIS FEMALE COMPANION IN A HEALTHY WAY, WHAT A FREAKING JOKE! YOU MEAN A MINI-WIFE????? BET RYAN HAD NO IDEA THAT SHE WOULD NO LONGER CONSIDER HERSELF HIS DAUGHTER AND INSTEAD BE HIS SPOUSE) says Steve Jaffe, Ryan's former publicist.

"She was possessive of him and peculiarly protective in regard to other women around him." He, in turn, played equally possessive mentor and booster, despite their predilection for explosive screaming matches. Griffin, however, was at sea. As Tatum once told an interviewer, "Griffin's room is right opposite mine, and he's forever coming to me for things as though I'm Mommy. And, of course, I have to tell him to clean up his room and do small chores around the house. He hates that. 'Okay, Mother,' he'll shout. Which makes me very upset." One observer spoke of the "O'Neal dragon"—when two of the trio were quiet the third would inevitably be "blowing fire."

Ryan's other child, Patrick, now 15, his son by Leigh Taylor-Young before they separated in 1971, seemed relatively unfazed by the turmoil. "Patrick is very different from Griffin, very gentle," says their grandmother Patricia, a casually elegant woman who lives near Malibu in Pacific Palisades. "Tatum was the princess and Patrick was the baby. Griffin was in the middle. He felt like nothing. He would do anything to be like his father. When they walk down the street together, people think they are brothers. Griffin adores that."

Kelly Osbourne made some comments recently about how she went to school with Griffen and she put Ryan down as a loser of a father. Really? She ought to know about fathers who are losers. However, she was able to get off drugs herself and I don't hear her blaming her father. Odd that she'd sympathize with Griffen.

I don't see Ryan blaming anybody for his temper, escapades, shitty choices. Tatum would be putting needles in her arm while telling her children, who lived with asshole John McEnroe (who she claimed was abusive and that is not hard to imagine) because she picked drugs over them, that her drug addiction was her father's fault. Nice, in her show, her own son didn't want much to do with Ryan. She told Ryan it was because her son blamed Ryan for her heroine addiction. She is one of the worst parents I have ever heard of! She's every bit as messed up as Ryan... AND her own mother (who conveniently has skipped blame since she died, not surprising).