Drew Barrymore opens up about emancipation at 14: “It was necessary for me to step away and start to become my own person. And at the age of 14, my own parent.”
Drew Barrymore posed with mother Jaid Barrymore in New York in 1982.“I had a mom, but she was more like my best friend,” Barrymore told Norm Macdonald in 2018. “She was like, ‘Do you want to go to school and get bullied all day, or do you want to go to Studio 54?’ And I was like, ‘Yes, absolutely!’”was 13, her mom sent her to a hospital called Van Nuys Psychiatric, a mental health facility for adults in California, where she spent nearly two years.
“Kids love feeling safe, and having boundaries is one of those crucial bumper rails,” she wrote. “I lived a boundaryless life and job. And this place, as hellacious as it was, it was exactly what I needed from the too much excess my life had become on the outside.” “And — very important — who was going to help you on your path and who would you have to let go,” she continued. “For me, at the end and when I got out, it was my mother.”
. “That was where our journey had led us to, and we were actually okay with— that that’s where we needed to go at that point.”of her own, Frankie, 9, and Olive, 10, whom she shares with ex-husband Will Kopelman.
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