Tatum O’Neal stepped out in Los Angeles with the assistance of a cane.
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The Oscar winner, 62, emerged in a rare public appearance on Saturday, walking alongside what appeared to be members of her family, in photos obtained by Page Six.
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O’Neal wore a classic black midi dress and navy blue suit jacket for the outing, accessorizing with a long necklace, black loafers and a pair of glasses.
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She appeared to be in good spirits as she chatted with the people who accompanied her.
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The outing comes just days after she took to Instagram to share a rare selfie with fans.
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In the pic, she smiled while surrounded by what appeared to be family photos in the background.
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“Hope ❤️” the celebrated actress captioned the snapshot, adding a red heart emoji to the upload.
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The sightings come amid O’Neal’s lengthy recovery from a stroke.
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In 2023, the “Paper Moon” actress revealed that an overdose on “a combination of pain medication, opiates, and morphine” back in 2020 led to a six-week coma and a near-fatal stroke.
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“I almost died,” O’Neal told People, confessing she’d been an “addict [her] whole life, pretty much on and off, for the past 30 to 40 years.”
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O’Neal’s son Kevin McEnroe, 40, told the outlet that he worried she wouldn’t survive.
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“It was the phone call we’d always been waiting for,” he said, referencing siblings Sean, 39, and and Emily, 35, whom O’Neal shares with ex-husband John McEnroe.
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“She also had a cardiac arrest and a number of seizures,” Kevin added.
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“There were times we didn’t think she was going to survive.”
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O’Neal — who rose to fame alongside her father Ryan O’Neal in 1973’s “Paper Moon” — divulged that following the 2020 medical incident, she’d been working on regaining strength and memory, as well as re-learning to read and write, in rehab facilities.
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O’Neal told the outlet she’d “been through a lot,” having abused pain medication at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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She’d been prescribed the meds for rheumatoid arthritis and back and neck pain, she explained.
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The mother of three was found by a pal in her home in Century City, Los Angeles, following the overdose and taken to a local hospital.
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O’Neal was subsequently diagnosed with Aphasia.
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Kevin told People that his mother “had become very isolated” and that amid the pandemic, he didn’t think “there was much hope” for her.
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Kevin called his mother’s efforts to recover after years of addiction a “miracle.”
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“This last chapter where she wants to live, wants to get sober, wants to learn, I think it’s a miracle,” he told the outlet.
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“I think it’s beautiful.
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She’s full of love and full of heart … it’s a miracle to behold.”
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The actress took home the Academy Award for best supporting actress in 1974 for her role in “Paper Moon,” at the age of 10.
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