Drew Barrymore has spoken again about how decadent her childhood was with very few rules.
When talking to pal Rob Lowe of St Elmo’s Fire fame on her new podcast Drew’s News on Friday, she said drugs and alcohol were fine but not sugar. And the beauty – who is a mother of two – added that she had to sneak treats when her mother was not looking.
The talk show host was a child star who worked on Firestarter and ET so she had to keep her weight down.
What a life! Drew Barrymore has spoken again about how decadent her childhood was with very few rules. When talking to pal Rob Lowe on her new podcast Drew’s News on Friday, she said drugs and alcohol were fine but not sugar. And the beauty added that she had to sneak treats when her mother was not looking; left in June, right in 1984
In 1989, Barrymore, then 14, detailed to People magazine how she had her first drink at 9, smoked pot at 10 and started using cocaine at 12. By 13, she had twice gone drug rehabilitation treatment.
The conversation began when Rob said that kids that don’t eat sugar come with a warning sign.
Rob: ‘So when you are worried about your kids having too much desserts or too much sugar. I always knew there was trouble when a kid would come over and say, “My parents don’t let me have sugar.”
‘I knew I would find that kid huffing sugar. I just knew it. Beware of the kid who tells you his parents don’t let him have sugar. Keep an eye on that kid.’
Just a kid: In 1989, Barrymore, then 14, detailed to People magazine how she had her first drink at 9, smoked pot at 10 and started using cocaine at 12. By 13, she had twice gone drug rehabilitation treatment; seen in 1982
Tough start: Seen here in 1987 at age 12; she had already made several films by this time
Drew then shared, ‘By the way you are so right, you are so right because my mom wouldn’t let me eat sugar. Studio 54 and weed and alcohol totally fine but don’t touch that sugar.
Rob interjected, ‘That makes perfect sense.’
And the siren continued, ‘And I did, I snuck chocolate in the closet. All the other habits were out in the open but the sugar was an in the closet thing. Literally I would hide it in a box in my closet and just…’
Still a stunner: Barrymore poses at Lea Michele’s first performance in Funny Girl on Broadway at The August Wilson Theatre on September 6 in New York City
It is well known that Drew did not have an easy childhood.
The actress opened up even more to Howard Stern about her past, telling him just how hard it really was after becoming a model at age two and a movie star with 1982’s blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at age seven.
The mother-of-two told the shock jock that her very own mother, Jaid Barrymore, admitted her to a psychiatric ward when she was only 13 years old.
Rough time: The visit was not short either. Drew had to stay for 18 months. ‘I used to laugh at those like Malibu 30 day places,’ she told the radio personality. ‘Malibu was sort of the opposite of the experience I had. I was in a place for a year and a half called Van Eyes Psychiatric.’ Seen on her show this week
The visit was not short either. Drew had to stay for 18 months. ‘I used to laugh at those like Malibu 30 day places,’ she told the radio personality.
‘Malibu was sort of the opposite of the experience I had. I was in a place for a year and a half called Van Eyes Psychiatric.
‘And you couldn’t mess around in there and if you did, you would get thrown either in a padded room or get put in stretcher restraints, and tied up.’
This comes months after Paris Hilton talked about being held at Provo Canyon School in Utah during her documentary This Is Paris.
Drew did admit that she had too many ‘resources’ at her disposal.
‘I was going to clubs and not going to school and stealing my mom’s car and, you know, I was out of control. So, you know, sometimes it was as humorous as that and sometimes I was just so angry that I would go off and then I’d get thrown in the thing,’ she shared.
She was sometimes placed in a padded room with her hands tied behind her back so she could cool down, it was explained.
Party time. Seen in the 90s with Eric Erlandson. Drew did admit that she had too many ‘resources’ at her disposal. ‘I was going to clubs and not going to school and stealing my mom’s car and, you know, I was out of control,’ she shared
A hot career: Barrymore, Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew McConaughey in Boys On The Side in 1995; directed by Herbert Ross
‘I asked myself like why is this happening. And I thought, maybe you need the craziest form of structure because everything was so accessible available and screwed up in your world that maybe it’s going to take something like this for you to kickstart the rest of your life,’ she said.
‘And that didn’t come for probably about six to eight months. The first six to eight months I was just so angry. I couldn’t see straight.’
Now she knows why her mother made the decision she did.
‘I think after, you know, 30, years of therapy, and a lot of soul searching and having kids myself, you know, I think she created a monster,’ she said.
Jaid had made Drew work at a young age. That meant late nights on set and also parties.
Drew only got better when she forgave her mother for what she had done.
‘She probably felt like she had nowhere to turn. And I’m sure she lived with a lot of guilt for years, about creating the monster but then I think she lived in a lot of pain that I also wouldn’t talk to her for a long time,’ she said.
It also showed her what kind of mom she wanted to be. She has two daughters with ex Will Kopelman.
‘I said to my own daughter… something came up and I said I’m not your friend. I’ll never be your friend; I’m your mother. And I had a mother who was a friend, and we’re not going to do that,’ she shared.
But she does not want to blame her mom anymore.
A siren: Seen at the Harper’s Bazaar Icons and Bloomingdale’s 150th anniversary party at Bloomingdale’s on September 9 in New York
‘I can’t have her feel bad anymore. I’m sure she’s already made the crap out of herself for having a daughter who wouldn’t speak to her. I mean, the pain that I went through from that—I felt so guilty. Denying my mom access to me, it felt like I was cutting off the source of life. It was as hard of a feeling as I’ve ever experienced. Definitely the worst pain I’ve ever known.’
And she also touched on her split from Will and how she resorted to eating and drinking to much during their divorce, but her friends urged her to take care of herself.
Drew shares her daughters with ex-husband Will Kopelman from whom she split in 2016 after four years of marriage.
The two have been amicably co-parenting Olive and Frankie ever since.
Family: Drew shares her daughters with ex-husband Will Kopelman from whom she split in 2016 after four years of marriage. The two have been amicably co-parenting Olive and Frankie ever since