Both Of Us: My Life With Farrah (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
A key to understanding why Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett’s own life together played out like a screenplay might be found on page 73. Here O’Neal confesses, “My adolescence lasted longer than most. Marriage and parenthood may have ended my childhood, but nothing has ever interrupted my adolescence.” That’s quite a revealing statement coming from a 71 year-old actor who can look back at three failed marriages, (if you include his long-term relationship with Farrah without benefit of clergy.) There’s enough material here to make a full-length feature film. Perhaps even a mini TV series.It’s all here. The good, the bad and the ugly. O’Neal leaves no extremely delicate and intimate detail unreported in this intensely and often painfully personal tell-all autobiography. Here we get all the turmoil from O’Neal’s marriages to Joanna Moore and Leigh Taylor-Young. Here we get all of the heartache and parental pain associated with O’Neal’s three sons, Griffin, Patrick, Redmond and daughter Tatum. Here O’Neal admits extramarital affairs with Diana Ross, Bianca, Anjelica Huston and Leslie Stefhanson. His children’s tabloid soaked lives reveal a similar pattern. Drugs, rehab, divorce, scandal.O’Neal and Fawcett’s world together and apart unraveled when Ryan was first diagnosed with leukemia. Farrah’s own terminal diagnosis was to come later.After all the family tragedy O’Neal reports in these pages, if there’s a message here, it might be found inside a card Farrah attached to her Christmas gift for her son, Redmond on December 25, 2007. “You don’t get to choose how or when you’re going to die. You can only decide how you’re going to live.” This story just goes to show celebrities are just like the rest of us. They have their joy, their pain and ultimately their sorrows. A very heartfelt story. I was at the dentist read the last few pages and the assistant had to hand me tissues. As a teenager I loved Farrah, she always seemed warm and genuine beneath all that beauty, and still she had her insecurities. Her poster came out the year I graduated high school so you know I had to have the Farrah haircut. It never looked as good on me as it did her. And Ryan. I cried every time I saw Love Story. He was always so handsome. How ironic he would live out that roll in real life some 40 years later.
What do You think about Both Of Us: My Life With Farrah (2012)?
great insights into his own life, just thought there would have been some more umph in it
—Cindy
Not very well written but interesting to hear his side of things.
—nayruangel42
The most poorly written memoir I've ever read.
—Smart16
