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Ryan O'Neal is finally saying the right thing.

The Love Story star is totally fine with Farrah Fawcett's decision to leave the bulk of her estate to their son, Redmond.

"Farrah's and my relationship was based on a deep love and respect for one another and for our son Redmond," the 68-year-old actor, who had proposed to his on-again love in the months before her death from cancer in June, said in a statement obtained by E! News. 

"After discussing how her financial affairs would be handled in the event of her passing we agreed that our son Redmond would be the primary beneficiary of her estate. These were Farrah's wishes and I am perfectly happy with them. 

"I sincerely hope that everyone will remember and celebrate the legacy that Farrah left behind, and will now let her rest in peace."

Fair enough.

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Redmond O'Neal is halfway home.

After pleading no contest last week to heroin possession and receiving three years' probation, the trouble-prone son of Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett was released from Los Angeles County Jail today and immediately entered a lockdown residential rehab facility, where he will spend the next year.

"He is doing very well," the younger O'Neal's attorney, Richard Pintal, tells E! News. "He is grateful to everyone who is assisting him in his treatment and recovery."

O'Neal, 24, was busted in April for packing heroin while visiting a buddy at a Southern California lockup.

After reviewing his plea deal with prosecutors in court yesterday, Drug Court Commissioner Jane Godfrey gave the OK for the flame-haired Hollywood spawn to enter a Pasadena treatment center.

A typical day will include both individual and group therapy sessions and house chores. Visitation is allowed but not encouraged, at least in the first few months.

O'Neal is due in court for a progress report next Wednesday.

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Farrah Fawcett might be looking down and smiling right about now.

Redmond O'Neal, the 24-year-old drug-addled son of the late Charlie's Angels star and actor Ryan O'Neal, pleaded no contest to heroin possession in a Santa Clarita, Calif., courtroom today and received three years' formal probation.

The younger O'Neal was busted April 5 when he was caught with the drugs while trying to visit an inmate at a California lockup.

His lawyer, Richard Pintal, tells E! News that O'Neal is now eligible to be transferred from the locked-down Wayside Honor Ranch, which specializes in hardcore rehab, to a residential addiction treatment facility.

"We're very happy with the resolution today," says Pintal, adding that he hoped the transfer takes place quickly.

O'Neal will still need to win the approval of the city's Drug Court, which had sentenced him for an earlier drug case. A judge is expected to take up his transfer next week.

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Someone should tell Ryan O'Neal that hitting on your daughter is not one of the steps included in the five stages of grief.

But that didn't stop the 68-year-old daddy dearest—who we'll give the benefit of the doubt and dub extremely grief-stricken at the time—from apparently failing to recognize 45-year-old daughter Tatum when she approached him at Farrah Fawcett's funeral last month.

So he did what any Father of the Year abhorrent lothario would do and propositioned her. And then he did what any publicity-starved actor would do and told Vanity Fair all about it.

Yeah, looks like that father-daughter estrangement isn't going anywhere soon.

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Ryan O'Neal has had a rough couple of years.

As evidenced in the Emmy-nominated Farrah's Story, for nearly three years, he coped with holding the hand of his longtime love, Farrah Fawcett, as she battled cancer. And for the past month since her June 25 death, he has been coping with life without his angel.

On the Today show this morning, the 68-year-old actor told Meredith Viera of his final conversations with the beauty—as well as his current conversations with her.

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Every time celebrities die in threes, your humble media informs you that, no, actually, they don't.

If you won't listen to us, then maybe you'll listen to the celebrity death month generator.

In the wake of the passings of Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, we tracked down two writers who ran the numbers on celebrities dying in threes.

And here's what they say...

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Farrah Fawcett was due for a heavenly sendoff at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Friends, colleagues and family members gathered Tuesday afternoon for a private funeral honoring the late actress. The cathedral has the capacity to seat 3,000, but the invite-only service was far more intimate.

First among the mourners to arrive were Ryan O'Neal and Alana Stewart, who were both with Fawcett at the hospital when she died. Farrah's ex-husband, Lee Majors; her Charlie's Angels costar, Kate Jackson; Ernie Hudson; romance novelist Jackie Collins and Dynasty villain Joan Collins also slipped past list-wielding security guards about an hour before the service was set to begin.

O'Neal was one of the pallbearers who escorted Fawcett's flower-draped casket into the church shortly before the funeral's 4 p.m. start time.

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Fittingly, friends and family are going to pay their final respects to Farrah Fawcett at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

A private funeral has been scheduled at the downtown landmark for 4 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The service will be closed to the public and media.

Fawcett died at a L.A.-area hospital Thursday morning after a two-year battle with cancer. On-again longtime love Ryan O'Neal, their son Redmond, and her close friend Alana Stewart were by her side.

A source tells E! News that a similarly exclusive memorial will also be held Tuesday at the oceanside Jonathan Club in Santa Monica.

If you're relegated to remembering Fawcett from the privacy of your own home, NBC is rebroadcasting its two-hour documentary special, Farrah's Story, tonight and the E! special Michael & Farrah: Lost Icons premieres Saturday at 10:30 a.m.

—Additional reporting by Natalie Abrams

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Farrah Fawcett's death was big news—until Michael Jackson's death became bigger news?

By the big media indexes, it looks that way.

Last night on prime-time TV, Jackson trumped Fawcett with three broadcast network hours to two. (That count counts Dateline NBC's two-hour, Fawcett-Jackson twofer as separate hours.) Accordingly, Jackson drew the overall larger crowd, 19.2 million viewers, per preliminary Nielsen estimates, to the Fawcett hours' combined 13.4 million. (Cable ratings weren't yet available.)

In the blogosphere, the gap between Jackson and Fawcett was even wider.

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The Twitterverse is full of Hollywood's instant reactions to Farrah Fawcett death:

•  Christina Applegate, a cancer survivor herself, was appropriately moved and inspired. "Today please donated money to a great cancer organization for research. This damn disease has taken another. We must find a cure. Farrah RIP."

•  Marlee Matlin, knew Fawcett after they spent an awards season in competition, and shared her thoughts in two separate tweets. "So sad to hear about the passing of beautiful Farrah. She & I were nominated for Golden Globes together. Gracious and lovely inside and out," she noted. "My thoughts and prayers to Farrah's dear Ryan her son and family. She was beautiful AND strong. She fought hard battle and showed dignity.

•  Paula Abdul also had some choice words regarding the idol. "What a wonderful, beautiful woman inside & out. Kind as can be, an amazing fighter who always kept hope in her heart. We can all learn a lot from her tremendous will to keep on fighting. God Bless You Farrah & may she finally rest in peace."

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