Brokenhearted Ryan O'Neal Admits He Failed As A Parent
May 1 2012, Published 8:00 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
In a sad segment on Tuesday's Today Show, one-time Hollywood hunk Ryan O'Neal came off as a broken man, admitting his failure as a parent and his profound loneliness without longtime love Farrah Fawcett, as he himself now battles cancer.
Ryan -- who abruptly left the show's New York set for a scheduled chat Monday -- said he'd "just broke out into a terrible sweat.
"You wouldn’t have wanted me," Ryan said, looking tired with a bandage on his nose after a recent procedure.
Asked if he'd indeed had a panic attack, O'Neal said he assumed he did, though he "never had one before."
The subject of his kids came up and it made for extremely uncomfortable TV: The father-of-four -- Patrick, Tatum, Griffin and Redmond -- was honest in assessing his accountability in the the addiction issues of the latter three, and past jail histories of the latter two.
“Were you a bad parent?” Lauer asked the Love Story star, who said contritely, “Looks like it, doesn’t it? Sure looks like it … I suppose I was.”