{"id":12858,"date":"2025-07-16T00:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12858\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:02:03","slug":"iconic-actress-61-praised-for-brave-speech-at-sons-wedding-after-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/12858\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Actress, 61, Praised for ‘Brave’ Speech at Son’s Wedding After Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iconic Actress, 61, Praised for ‘Brave’ Speech at Son’s Wedding After Stroke<\/a> originally appeared on Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Actress Tatum O’Neal was praised by her son Kevin McEnroe for giving a memorable speech at his wedding five years after she suffered a near-fatal stroke.<\/p>\n

After Kevin, 39, married actress Fern Cozine on June 14, he told Vogue<\/a> that his “mother, father and stepmother [singer Patty Smyth] were all there, together and in harmony, which hadn\u2019t been the case in many years.”<\/p>\n

Kevin went on to share insight into the wedding while praising his mother for making a memorable speech. \u201cMy mother \u2014 who suffered a stroke in 2020 that left her temporarily nonverbal and immobile, but who fought her way back with grit and, at times, a kind of abridged elegance \u2014 got up and gave a speech,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe thanked my father and stepmother for having her, told a bit of her wild life story, which she can\u2019t seem to help, but also spoke of a future filled with love, hope and joy,” Kevin continued. “She was brave and gracious, and I was proud of her for doing so.”<\/p>\n

In addition to O’Neal, the groom’s father, John McEnroe, and Cozine’s parents also delivered speeches during the wedding.<\/p>\n

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O’Neal and John, 66, got married in 1986 and welcomed sons Kevin and Sean McEnroe, 37, and daughter Emily McEnroe, 34. They split in 1992 and went on to have a messy custody battle.<\/p>\n

While O’Neal’s stroke happened in 2020, she did not publicly reveal the medical issue until 2023. The Paper Moon actress, who has a history of drug abuse issues, revealed that she overdosed in her Century City apartment, which ultimately caused the severe stroke.<\/p>\n

More recently, she opened up about the experience during a February interview with Variety<\/a>. \u201cNow I don\u2019t want to hurt myself,\u201d O\u2019Neal said about her mindset after her stroke. \u201cNow I don\u2019t want to fucking take drugs again \u2014 I really don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iconic Actress, 61, Praised for ‘Brave’ Speech at Son’s Wedding After Stroke<\/a> first appeared on Parade on Jul 15, 2025<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Jul 15, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iconic Actress, 61, Praised for ‘Brave’ Speech at Son’s Wedding After Stroke originally appeared on Parade. Actress Tatum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,12593,1702,12590,12594,12592,12591],"class_list":["post-12858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-fern-cozine","tag-john-mcenroe","tag-kevin-mcenroe","tag-memorable-speech","tag-patty-smyth","tag-tatum-oneal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}