The famous actress, Drew Berrymore had shared some stories from her life in her new book, Wildflower.
She had shared how being a mother had changed her into a positive way, and changed her life.
In the book, she had discussed how she had felt that she doesn’t fit anywhere, and how she had tried to make good deeds for the bad things that other people did.
She was first moved to the industry with the movie of Ken Russell, Altered States, at the age of five, and than she had her breakthrough with ET of Spielberg.
She had gained a huge fame when she was seven, thanks to the ET movie.
As she was seemingly having a life of a celebrity, on the background, she was facing with the alcoholism of her father, and her mother’s difficult behaviours. She was nine when her parents got separated. And as her mother led to Studio 54, she had faced with drugs and famous young men.
She was calling herself a party girl, when she was just eight, as she was going out with her mother and her friends. She faced alcoholism at the age of 11, and problems with drugs at 12.
She went to a rehab when she was 12. Later on she had supported Nancy Reagan’s Just Say No movement. When she was 13, a terrible thing happened and she tried suicide. She had stayed in a hospital for 18 long months, for rehab.
“When I was 13, that was probably the lowest. Just knowing that I really was alone. And it felt… terrible.” Drew Barrymore had said.
The relationship of her parents had caused a massive trauma on her and that led to other things, as she stated. In the hospital she stayed for long months, she had thought that she should stay in order to recover from the situation and condition she is in.
On the other hand, staying away from her mother had caused pain on her. As she had stayed in there, she had built a new Drew for herself, as she stated, “My mom locked me up in an institution. But it did give an amazing discipline. I needed that whole insane discipline.”
At the age of 14, she had freed herself from her parents, and started her own journey, alone. She had stated that her 14-year-old self wouldn’t recognize the person she transformed to be when she was 40.
She had fought with her own darkness, and kept her bliefs that there are still good things that is waiting for her to discover in this world.
As she grew up, Hollywood had abandoned her, and even though she had some perfect auditions, she was left aside.
At the age of 15, she was an actress that was unemployed and that led her to clean toilets and jobs at some restaurants. As she was learned a lesson from her father’s words, “expectations are the mother of deformity,” she had no problems with her past glory and fame.
As she moved with her life, she had gained her old fame back as she became a name for the Rom-Coms. She had successful movies like “The Wedding Singer,” “Never Been Kissed,” and “50 First Dates.”
Between the 90s and 2000s, she had acted in many movies, as she was the name for the rom-com genre. As she had her children Olive and Frankie with her ex-husband Will Kopelman, she had step out from the industry, and focused on her daughters.
She tried her best to create a safe environment for her daughters and create a strong bond with them.
And today, she must be feeling that she had accomplished her goal to be the best mother for her daughters, in her heavenly home where she is living with her daughters.
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