For the return of his talk show, Drew Barrymore has opted for an emotional sequence.

She returned to the psychiatric institute where she had been placed at the age of 13.

The actress indeed experienced a particularly difficult adolescence, developing very young an addiction to alcohol and drugs.

"I was really a rebellious child and I was so out of control that nobody knew what to do with me anymore", she explained, before taking the road to Van Nuys Psychiatric Hospital in Los Angeles where she is. remained interned for 18 months.

Start from scratch

“They took me out there in the middle of the night and put me through those two doors.

And when you go through those two doors, you can't go back.

And I was here for a year and a half, ”Drew Barrymore recalled.

A few months ago, the actress had already confided in this landmark episode and the way he had offered her a new start despite the extreme violence of the internment.

"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'll give you something to start with. the rest of your life, "" she said on the

Howard Stern Show

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Drew Barrymore recalls being in a mental hospital when she was 13

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