Redmond O’Neal, the son of Ryan O’Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett, is scheduled to leave the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, Calif., where he is currently attending a drug diversion program, Access Hollywood has learned.
On Friday, O’neal pleaded no contest to charges stemming from his arrest on April 5 on suspicion of taking heroin into an LA-area jail facility. A judge granted the 24-year-old residential treatment and three years probation. He will receive treatment for one year at the Impact Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center in Pasadena, Calif.
O’Neal, who appeared in court wearing a royal blue jumpsuit, will be released from the Pitchess Detention Center and start his new treatment center when a judge from the LAX Courthouse signs off on today’s decision. O’Neal is scheduled to appear in court again on September 24.
When contacted by Access Hollywood, a rep for the Impact facility could not give specifics on O’Neal’s planned treatment program, but said Impact is a highly structured program and that patients are not usually free to come and go as they please.
At the end of Friday’s hearing, the judge offered his condolences towards O’Neal for the loss of his mother, Farrah Fawcett, who passed away due to anal cancer on June 25, 2009. O’Neal was allowed out of the facility to attend her funeral.
O’Neal’s current incarceration stems from a January 2008 drug arrest and a probation violation in September 2009.
Copyright © 2024 by NBC Universal, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
This material may not be republished, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.