The Tragic Life of Drew Barrymore

since she's part of a prestigious acting family and one of America's most beloved working actresses he'd be forgiven for thinking that she's had an easy ride welcome to Ms mojo and today we're taking a look at the heartbreaking life of Drew Barrymore for this video we're looking at the early life and career of drew Barrymore and how she came out the other side stronger than ever the Barrymore acting dynasty dates all the way back to the 19th century with Drew Barrymore's great-grandfather Maurice and his wife Georgiana Emma drew many of the Drew's were actors as well what's in a night well in Barry there's a lot it's a dynasty big drinkers and brilliant actors her grandfather John Barrymore was one of the most renowned Shakespearean actors of the 1920s and by 1927 the family already had a play written about them the royal family even her father John drew Barrymore jr. did a lot of work on TV and was in a handful of movies though they never took off unfortunately the Barrymore's also have a long history of substance problems specifically alcoholism come on can I get you glass and milk coming both her father and grandfather ultimately died from deteriorating health as a result of long-term alcohol abuse and because of this her dad was rarely present in her life did I do something wrong that my dad doesn't want to be around me am I such a repellent person that I Drive everyone who gets to know me to the farthest mountain that they could run to and I still question that sometime her first acting role came when she was only 11 months old when she appeared in a commercial for gains burgers dog food alongside a puppy and even at this age she was praised for her performance her father was already out of her life after numerous arrests for domestic abuse and drug possession and by the time she got her big break in et her mother Jade was her primary carer she landed the role of Gerty after impressing Steven Speilberg in an audition for poltergeist and actually I didn't want to do that movie because it was kind of kind of scary he didn't feel like she was right for poltergeist but made good on his promise to see her for something else and she ended up giving a winning performance in what became the highest-grossing movie of the 1980s she [Music] was just seven years old during filming and it was soon after that she asked Spielberg if he would be her Godfather which he accepted he remained an influential role model throughout her life even telling her to cover up after she posed for Playboy when she was older but her sudden rise to fame was bad news her mother loved the limelight and rather than making sure her daughter went through school to get a good education she started partying and taking Dru with her you just can't stand that the whole world is going to know the truth about what about how you've held me back all these years one of their regular haunts was the famous studio 54 nightclub in New York and it was hanging around so many older people that got her into more and more trouble well I grown up very fast and it's not very normal to see a nine year old at a big Hollywood party drinking and it looks a little weird and people were laughing and just saying you know I dare you to do this and I did by age nine she'd had her first drink of alcohol by 10:00 she'd smoked marijuana and by 12 she was addicted to cocaine shockingly not one of the adults she found herself partying with intervened she had already been to rehab more than once during her early adolescence though she said in a 2015 interview with the Guardian that this was the lowest point in her life what about the drugs that started when I was around 10 and 11 and who came to your first drug for goodness as I said then they were friends but they weren't really friends she was 13 when she was institutionalized in a mental facility for 18 months and traumatic as this was it gave her the chance to finally get clean by 1989 she was already speaking to the press about her life to try and help other young people struggling with substance abuse giving a candid interview to People magazine it was while she was institutionalized that the medical professionals treating her suggested legal emancipation so she could get away from the emotional abuse of her mother despite only being 14 everyone agreed that she would fare much better on her own than if she was still dependent on her parents when she was 15 she was back in Hollywood living in a run-down apartment working in the service industry already a washed-up actress who'd been through it all after all that you may think that she's never had anything to do with either of her parents but this is not the case though she was estranged from him for most of her life she provided a home for her father and paid for all his cancer treatment before his death in 2004 and she still keeps in touch with and maintains a relationship with her mother I bet it check on mother and the cat she's a lot of fun I hope she doesn't die by 16 she was sober and had already written her first memoir little girl lost and was beginning to get into acting again she had a few roles here and there in the 90s but didn't see much mainstream success again until she opened her own film company alongside Nancy Joe Bonin in 1995 flower films the first movie flower films made was 1999 s iconic rom-com never been kissed starring Barrymore and they went on to produce giant hits like Charlie's Angels and Donnie Darko alas I have not yet been elected Queen of the Universe so I must obey the rules and so will you more recently they were behind Barrymore's three-season Netflix show Santa Clarita Diet okay here's the deal mommy's going a little crazy down here so I need to get out and they know you're worried I'm gonna go out there and kill somebody but think about all the people I haven't killed Barrymore has also proven to have a lot of range as an actress taking on the difficult role of little Edie Beale alongside Jessica Lange in HBO's Grey Gardens winning a Golden Globe before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and bring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications but while her career has been flourishing for decades her relationships have been a little less consistent I try really hard relationships take a lot of work do they ever oh my god family friends and lovers it's I think it it probably takes most of your energy in this life but it's so worth it she was engaged to Leland Hayward another member of a Hollywood dynasty when she was 16 in 1991 and just a year later she was engaged to Jamie Walters there were two most beautiful physically and really really adorable people and I did think they would be a good match and and they really did hit it off in addition to rocky relationships with Eric Aronson Fabrizio Moretti and Justin long she got married multiple times after a short-lived matrimony to a bar owner in 1994 she went comedian Tom Green in 1999 and then in 2012 she married will Kopelman with whom she has two daughters though they divorced in 2016 her daughter's mean the world to her and she's dedicated to raising them in the happy loving home she never had and we should all believe our children right that's yes to do it exactly and then later on you you tell them they're nobodies outside of the acting world she's also seen success in various business endeavors bringing out cosmetics wines and clothes not to mention writing another book though Drew Barrymore's early life was troubled it's truly incredible to see how far she's come what a role model she is today and how iconic she is both in and out of the entertainment industry this is definitely a story with a happy ending do you feel now that you are finally living the life that you want without any question yes I am so glad that I get to live the life I have I 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Length: 8min 37sec (517 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 23 2020