Redmond O’Neal back to Jail
Back in September, when Redmond O’Neal was moved from jail into in-patient rehab, his attorney advised us all, via People, that “Redmond has embraced recovery.”
But in ordering the son of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal back behind bars today on a probation violation, a judge clearly disagreed.
“It seems to me you haven’t got a clue as to what recovery means,” Judge Michael Tynan said. “It’s a lifetime commitment. It’s grinding, hard, painful work.”
Why is Redmond being sent back to jail? O’Neal had been on a 24-hour pass from a residential treatment center, L.A. County sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore told L.A. Now. “When he came back, he told the program counselors that he had used drugs,” Whitmore said. “He tested positive” for unspecified drugs.
Redmond O’Neal ordered to rehab
September 19, 2009 by m.coonce · Leave a Comment
Redmond O’Neal, the son of the late actress Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal, has been ordered by a US judge to go into drug rehab for at least a year.
The Los Angeles Superior court judge suspended a six-year prison sentence for O’Neal, saying he must go into residential care. O’Neal, 24, pleaded guilty to possessing heroin while on bail in April for another drug charge. He was in jail for Fawcett’s final days. She died of cancer on 26 June.
He was then released for a few hours to attend her funeral.
O’Neal will not have to serve time in prison if he completes the rehab treatment and three-years probation. He has been in custody since his April arrest for bringing drugs into a jail north of Los Angeles. He has previously been before the courts in Southern California for possession of methamphetmaine and heroin.
