Ailing Farrah Fawcett receives visit from jailed son

Authorities had allowed the incarcerated Redmond to leave jail for three hours on Saturday to see his ailing mother, Fawcett.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said a judge on Friday signed a court order, allowing the 24-year-old troubled star child to leave prison with a police escort.

The judge gave Redmond a three-hour window from departure to return for the visit, which was supervised by officials from the state County Sheriff's Office.

According to police, O’Neal’s family paid nearly $1,300 so deputies could supervise the visit, which is occasionally allowed for inmates who have gravely ill family members.

"A sergeant and a deputy drove him to his mother's home (Saturday) and he's now back in custody," People magazine quoted a sheriff's spokesman as saying.

Redmond has been jailed since April 5, 2009, when deputies said he was caught with heroin at a jail facility north of Los Angeles. The wild child of Ryan and Fawcett was on probation for a 2007 drug bust.

Since his last sentence, Redmond has been arrested twice more; once on Sept.17, 2008 during a routine probation check at his Malibu home, and again Sunday, April 5, 2009 morning, when authorities caught him with heroin during a routine security check in the parking lot of Pitchess Detention South Facility in Santa Clarita.

Fawcett, best known as the star of TV's "Charlie's Angels", is battling anal cancer that has spread to her liver. Last week, sources close to the family claimed that there has been no change in Fawcett’s health condition.

Earlier this month, Fawcett’s longtime beau Ryan O'Neal said in court that 62-year-old Fawcett weighed only 86 pounds. However, cancer-stricken actress’ physician Lawrence Piro disputes the claim.

Piro told Usmagazine.com Tuesday that the 5'6 1/2" actress, a week ago, weighed more than O'Neal claimed.

"She was 101 pounds," which according to Piro is "a reasonable weight" under the circumstances.

Fawcett was hospitalized early this month after suffering bleeding in a stomach muscle following a surgical procedure she had in Germany to address the cancer's spread.

She was discharged from the hospital a week later. Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006, which her doctor says has now metastasized to her liver. Last year in February, she saw her anal cancer go into remission, but it returned merely three months later.