Drew Barrymore explained why directors didn’t want to work with her, saying, “They just wrote me off as broken goods, and I, tragically, accepted it.”
She is a celebrity who has been honest about her struggles as a child star, but she was too young to understand the consequences at the time. But she rose beyond her terrible history to become even more powerful.
Barrymore was only 7 years old when she became recognized for her role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. However, due to her mother Jaid, she began taking drugs and alcohol when she was just 12 years old.
As a child, she would accompany her mother to Studio 54 instead of school, where she would be left alone with a bunch of people while Jaid partied.
After being abandoned by her father when she was nine years old following her parents’ divorce, the Never Been Kissed actress was a raging drinker by the age of 11.
After being addicted to cocaine and marijuana at the age of 12, she entered a rehab clinic. The happy moments, however, were short, and she relapsed, sliding worse than ever.
“That was probably the lowest when I was 13,” she said in an interview. Because of the severity of the problem, she had to be institutionalized. “My mom placed me in a psychiatric hospital,” Barrymore told the tabloid, adding, “Ah, boo! However, it did provide incredible discipline.”
“It was dreadful, gloomy, and very long-lasting—a year and a half—but I needed it,” she added. It felt like a combination of boot camp and recruitment training. “I needed all of that craziness.” “Just realizing that I was completely alone,” she added. ” And that was… terrible.”
She decided to become emancipated from her parents, her drug-addicted mother, and her absentee father when she was 14 years old. “I officially become an adult,” she stated. To make ends meet, the actress was obliged to work in restaurants and clean toilets between the ages of 15 and 16.
“It was strange,” she remarked. “I had no concept how to handle an apartment at 14, so it was a total nightmare.” ” I was concerned and couldn’t sleep because it was in a dangerous neighborhood.” Despite this, she continued. She had recovered by the age of 17 thanks to the film Poison Ivy.
“By the age of 14, it’s a difficult trip to have such a large profession at such a young age, then nothing for years – people going, you’re an unemployable disaster – having access to so much and then having nothing,” she said.
She claimed that her experience at the age of 14 helped her get her act together. “Midlife crisis, institutionalization, blacklisting, no family, got it done, and then went into the loop of being my own parent, sorting things out,” she said of her position.
Barrymore’s career took off after she emerged from the pits. She recently stated on The Drew Barrymore Show that her rebellious personality drove her to incite riots and become out of control at the rehab where she was staying, but she “didn’t like being thrown in solitary confinement.” “I wouldn’t change a thing,” she concluded, “since that hospital truly saved my life and healed me.”
“I have no idea how I got here, but I’ll never forget how fortunate I am,” the actress, who previously thought she would die before the age of 25, said of everything that has happened. According to The Sun, “after being placed on a list at the age of 12, I treasure every job I have.”
“I’ve seen it all, from winning to having to work hard for what you have to being extremely fortunate to have the opportunities you do.” “I don’t believe there is anything to hide at this moment,” she added.
She admitted to having a “tough” relationship with her mother. According to the report, she has “felt shame, empathy, and tremendous sensitivity” toward her mother, to the point that they “can’t truly be in each other’s lives at this moment.” The two, on the other hand, have found solace in one another’s companionship.
In 2017, she posted an Instagram photo of herself and her mother celebrating Mother’s Day with the caption, “Proud. My mum and Myself On Mother’s Day!”
