Oh, this is such sad news!!!

Redmond O’Neal was allowed to leave jail this weekend — where he’s being held on drug charges — to visit his mother, Farrah Fawcett, who is battling cancer. Redmond had a police escort, but, still. Jails aren’t typically in the habit of letting people out to make just any housecall. Farrah must be very ill.

Our thoughts are with you, Farrah!!!

Young Redmond O’Neal — the son of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal — is still cooling his heels in Twin Towers because no one will bail him out. And apparently no one will visit him, either. He’s been there for a week and he hasn’t had a single visitor. His family is making it a point not to visit him. They want him to learn a lesson.

And believe it or not, he’s not even in jail for his recent attempt to bring heroin into a prison. He’s there for probation violation, stemming from a dirty test when he was in rehab for an entirely different drug arrest.

With Farrah struggling to beat anal cancer right now, I completely understand this family’s decision to leave Redmond in jail. He’s safer in there! The last thing the O’Neals need to add to their list of stresses is a dead son, and it’s way harder to OD on heroin in Twin Towers than on the streets of LA. Good parenting decision, Ryan! Much better than when you decided to do meth with your son. Oh, shit. I just had a thought. Maybe Ryan is leaving Redmond in jail because he’s sick of the kid bogarting the meth.

Wow, Redmond, check your ass into rehab and take it seriously this time, dude. You’re breakin’ my heart here, kid.

Your mother, Farrah Fawcett, is unconscious in the hospital, probably dying of cancer in the near future. This is some really rough shit. I get that. You don’t wanna have to feel it. I get that, too.

But you know what you really don’t wanna do, buddy? You really don’t wanna make this harder for your mom and your family by getting busted once again with drugs.

Redmond O’Neal, the son of actors Ryan O’Neal and Farrah Fawcett, was arrested this morning on charges of trying to smuggle drugs into a county jail, adding to his long history of drug arrests.

The arrest came during a routine security check in the parking lot of Pitchess Detention South Facility in Santa Clarita around 9:30 this morning, said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. O’Neal, 24, had apparently come to the facility to visit an inmate. He told sheriff’s deputies before the search began that he had drugs on him, Whitmore added.

He was taken into custody and bail was set at $25,000, according to the sheriff’s website. It was not yet known whether O’Neal posted bail.

How many drugs arrests is this now, kiddo? What the fuck were you thinking, bringing drugs to a prison? Are you out of your goddamn mind? Is it making anything easier?

Cut this out. Break the cycle here. Get your shit together and be present for your mom right now. If she’s gonna die, let her do so knowing her son is sober and healthy and by her side. It doesn’t have to go down like this. It’s your call.

Here’s poor Redmond O’Neal, being shamelessly hounded by the paparazzi as he goes on a grocery run. Redmond, you’ll recall, was arrested along with his father, Ryan O’Neal, early Wednesday morning, when the cops found meth on Redmond and in Ryan’s bedroom.

I do feel bad for the poor kid, who’s never done anything to put himself in the spotlight, trying to deal with these paparazzi assholes, but then he comes with this line: “It’s just a major misunderstanding. Life goes on, you know,” and later adds that “it happens to everyone.”

I totally hear that, Redmond. I’ve been in the same situation. I don’t smoke meth, either. But sometimes I pass out in my bathtub after three or four days of smoking crack, and I wake up two days later and all my crackhead friends are gone, and now there’s fucking meth in my bedroom. And I just stare at the shit, like, “This must be some sort of a misunderstanding.”

Best of luck to ya, kid.

Ryan O’Neal and his 24-year-old son, Redmond (who is, tragically, a red-head), were both busted for meth possession early this morning.

Authorities said they were doing a probation search at the family’s Malibu home when they found Redmond O’Neal in possession of methamphetamine and a vial of the drug was allegedly found in Ryan’s bedroom.

I bet Redmond was the type of dude who would brag to his friends, like, “Yeah, I know it seems pathetic that I still live at home, but you know what, assholes? Dad buys all my meth. Yeah. That’s right. You’re jealous now, aren’t you, punkass?”

They’re both being held on $10K bail.