Actress Tatum O’Neal has said she was sexually assaulted multiple times as a child star. O’Neal, 54, who became the youngest person to win an Oscar aged ten playing opposite her father Ryan O’Neal in the 1973 classic Paper Moon, said all the assaults were by older men who she thought ‘were safe’. In an emotional letter posted on Instagram, the mother-of-three – who was once married to tennis great John McEnroe – said: ‘I am a woman and I have been sexually assaulted more than once. Tatum O’Neal (pictured right as a child with father Ryan O'Neal), 54, has opened up about being sexually assaulted multiple times as a child star. In her 2004 autobiography A Paper Life, O’Neal claimed she was molested by her father’s drug dealer aged 12 and by a family acquaintance at six years old.

Source: Daily Mail October 06, 2018 23:59 UTC