Actress Drew Barrymore -
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At 13, Drew Barrymore was simply "out of control".
"I went to clubs, not to school, I stole my mother's car," the actress recalled during an appearance on the
Howard Stern Show
.
A behavior that earned the star to be interned by his mother in a psychiatric hospital for 18 months.
Child star from a Hollywood dynasty, one would think that Drew Barrymore enjoyed a stay in a luxurious clinic.
But his time at the Van Nuys Psychiatric Hospital was really not a piece of cake.
“We weren't doing anything stupid there, and if we did, we were thrown into a padded cell or tied up,” she recalled before looking back on those months that had changed her profoundly.
A new start
During the first six months of his stay, Drew Barrymore felt nothing but anger.
“I couldn't see it clearly,” she recalled.
Then, little by little, the actress managed to wonder about her situation until she saw in this extreme experience the opportunity for a new start.
"I asked myself, 'Why is this happening?'
And I thought, "Maybe you need the craziest form of structure because everything was so accessible, available and twisted in your world, and maybe that will give you something to start. the rest of your life ".
Of course, Drew Barrymore needed time to rebuild himself and especially to forgive his mother, which is what she finally achieved.
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