Get this -- Ryan O'Neal is saying that he fired a gun at his son Griffin in self-defense because Griffin was trying to whack him with a fireplace poker.
Ryan told the LA Times that when he arrived home Sunday -- after celebrating sometime girlfriend Farrah Fawcett's 60th birthday and the fact that she's now cancer-free -- Griffin, who was visiting the house, grabbed a fireplace poker and started swinging it, grazing him numerous times.
He "aimed at my head, I ducked, he hit his own girlfriend in the head," Ryan told the paper. "I got a little nervous at that point and fled to my room... and I got my gun." When Griffin chased him up the stairs, Ryan "fired it into the banister, and that scared him and he fled."
This makes me flashback to my lively household growing up. My sisters and I would seriously get into it over such important matters as the prettier Barbie, scratched 45s and items of clothing that we helped ourselves to instead of, say, asking to borrow. Thank god we didn't have a fireplace -- or, ya know, guns! -- or our battles definitely could have taken a O'Neal-like turn.
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