Tatum O’Neal, 44, was arrested in New York last night after she was spotted handing a drug dealer cash in exchange for drugs.

O’Neal is no stranger to drug use, she’s admitted in the past to using cocaine and even heroin. However, in her 2004 memoir, A Paper Life, she claimed she had been clean since completing rehab in 1996.

O’Neal was arrested at 7:30 p.m. Sunday after trying to buy crack from a 33-year-old man, who was also arrested. Police found cocaine and crack on her, along with an unused crack pipe.

She spent the night in jail and has been charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.

Tatum begged police to let her go, “You know who I am, right?”, she said. She claimed to be doing research for a role, “I’m doing this for a part as a junkie.” Bitch has enough experience as a junkie, she doesn’t need to research!

Anyhow, after that tactic didn’t work she simply asked, “Can’t we just forget about this?”

Tatum’s mother, actress Joanna Moore, abandoned her when she was a kid. Her mother was also a well known drug abuser. She died in 1997 at the age of 63, from lung cancer.