b'Farrah turned 50 on February 2, 1997, a year which provedtransformativeandtransitionalforheronall levels. She posed half-nude in Playboy magazine in one of the best-selling editions in its history, alongside the other editions in which she appeared over the years. In promotion of the Playboy feature and an accompanying video, she made a notorious appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, which sparked rumors of drug abuse after she came across as confused, distracted and unseemly in her flirtatiousnessat one point in the interview, a loud thud was heard off-camera when a di-rector tripped over a cord and hit the deck.Thatsummer,shecaughtRyanONealwithanother woman at his Malibu beach house and decided to sep-arate from him, with their son Redmond, then age 12, choosing to move in with his dad full time. After all, there were rules in Farrahs homeat one point she de-manded to search of all her sons friends coming into the house with him for drugs and alcohol, according to Greg Lott,whoremainedclosetoFarrahsfamilyinTexas since getting clean, himself.RyanONealwasawell-knownHollywoodbadboy, known for hard living, heavy drinking and drug abuse, and as an unapologetic womanizer. Both of his children Left: Farrah reunited with Charlies Angels co-stars Katefrom his first marriage to Joanna Moore, Griffin and Jackson and Jaclyn Smith at the 2006 Emmy Awards. Above:Tatum ONeal, have battled drug addiction their entire Farrah found her cause following her epic role as an abusedlivesGriffin claimed his father made him use cocaine wife who killed her husband in The Burning Bed, 1984. at age 11, and Tatum, once the worlds highest-paid child 46THE COASTAL BEND GUIDE TheCoastalBend.com'