>>> with redmond o'neal son of ryan o'neal and the late farrah fawcett back behind bars this morning after he was caught with illegal drugs during his latest court ordered treatment. nbc's kristen dahlgren is in los angeles for us this morning with the details. good morning.
>> reporter: good morning, savannah. redmond o'neal is waking up back in jail this morning. the judge seemed to leave the door open for the possibility he could be sent back to rehab leaving his attorneys saying they still have hope. redmond o'neal admitted his relapse.
>> you, in fact, did use methamphetamine in violation of a specific, direct court order ?
>> i did.
>> reporter: the judge read a letter from the rehab facility detailing how the son of farrah fawcett and ryan o'neal snuck out last weekend.
>> redmond was able to access a pay phone and subsequently delivery of methamphetamine to a location just outside our facility.
>> reporter: but three weeks after the same judge warned the troubled 26-year-old he would go to prison if he ever used drugs during probation --
>> no second chances. no passing. no nothing. you're gone.
>> reporter: this time the court seemed to have more questions for the rehab facility than for redmond .
>> like you would order a pizza he called somebody that does drugs and said, look. i want you to deliver drugs to me and i'm at this location. how did that happen that he had access to a phone?
>> clearly, we fell short on the monitoring.
>> reporter: for o'neal, the past few years have been full of struggles. seen here in "farrah's story" he was already behind bars for drugs during his mother's final days released only long enough to say good-bye.
>> you look better.
>> reporter: by now admitting his relapse o'neal took a risk.
>> it was i admit the violation. i accept responsibility. impose the consequences knowing full well that when he did that, right then and there the court could have sentenced him to state prison .
>> reporter: redmond was jailed for now but the judge won't decide whether o'neal will go to state prison until sentencing next month when the judge could decide to give o'neal another chance at rehab with tighter supervision.
>> is there someone there that can be assigned to him, you know, like his shadow, that will be with him at all times?
>> reporter: psychiatrist dr. carol lieberman saw redmond before his last sentencing and made recommendations to the court.
>> it was very frustrating to me to see redmond relapse because he really was in a good place when he went into the treatment center to begin with.
>> reporter: according to the judge a trust fund set up by o'neal's mother could pay for any stricter monitoring if he is sent back to rehab. the court will also decide how much contact redmond 's father ryan , his half sister tatum, and the rest of what the judge called a dysfunctional family , can have.
>> there's a whole complex structure in a family of an addict that works towards their continuing to use.
>> oh, neal's attorneys say they are the ones who asked the family not to attend thursday's hearing. they wanted the focus on redmond . they called the family very loving. we'll learn his fate when the judge sentences him on november 7th .
>> thank you.
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