Given that Drew Barrymore’s mom was taking her to clubs before she was even a teenager, it’s hardly surprising that she turned to drugs and alcohol at a young age. Drew told The Guardian that at age 9, she was a regular at Studio 54, where Jaid Barrymore first introduced her daughter to drugs and encouraged her to dance with adult men.
Drew’s bumpy sobriety journey began with her first rehab stint at age 12. But it didn’t stick, and her mom checked her into a lock-down mental health facility for 18 months when she was 13. “It was like serious recruitment training and boot camp, and it was horrible and dark and very long-lived, a year and a half, but I needed it,” Drew said. “I needed that whole insane discipline. My life was not normal. I was not a kid in school with normal circumstances. There was something very abnormal, and I needed some severe shift.”
“It taught me the foundations of telling your truth. Not in a way that made you an immovable person on some high horse, but your story,” she wrote on her blog. “Your feelings. Your faults. Your hopes and wishes. Your hurts. What and where you wanted to get to in life. And — very important — who was going to help you on your path and who would you have to let go. For me, at the end and when I got out, it was my mother.”
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