SHORT TAKES : Tatum Jealous, O’Neal Claims

NEW YORK — Ryan O’Neal says he and daughter Tatum have not gotten along well since he began living with Farrah Fawcett more than a decade ago.

Tatum, now 27, had been living with O’Neal since she was a child and her parents divorced.

“I had to make a choice between Tatum and this girl--and I chose Farrah,” O’Neal, 49, said in the February issue of Vanity Fair. “Tatum made me choose. I said, ‘That’s a bad idea. I sleep with this girl, Tatum. I don’t sleep with you.’ ”

O’Neal, who with Fawcett stars in a new TV series, “Good Sports,” said of his daughter: “I picked her up, and I made her a movie star and an Academy Award winner and rich. And I loved her, too. And I never violated her or any of the possibilities. I took care of her. And then I finally found someone who was dear to me, and she couldn’t have it, she couldn’t deal with it.”

But O’Neal had some kind words for his daughter, who has two children with her husband, tennis star John McEnroe.

“I miss her,” he said. “She has a new life, a happy life, with her man.”