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Drew Barrymore typically makes use of her eponymous present to have a look again at varied points of her life. But in a brand new interview, she recaleld a few of the most tough instances in her troubled previous, and admitted she couldn’t imagine she’d survived. “I’ve had a ‘bad girl’ narrative on my back my whole life,” the Never Been Kissed star, 48, confessed to Us Weekly for an expansive interview revealed on February 7. “I thought I deserved bad things. Now I’m raising two daughters. I can’t do that to myself anymore. Kind of like the drinking — I’m picking off things one at a time, going, ‘I can’t carry you anymore. You aren’t good for me.’”
Drew continued, emphasizing throughout the interview that her present life is full of gratitude. “The personal part of me has been the ultimate work in progress,” she defined. “The professional in me feels really brave and never entitled. Always so privileged and grateful. I’ve lost everything. I’ve got it back. I’ve lost it again. Got it back. So I don’t assume anything stays. I know not to take anything for granted. Whatever difficult times I’ve gone through professionally, I believed I could rewrite things.”
And rewrite them she did, transcending her former difficulties to create a wholly new life. But whereas the mother of two has appeared assured and on the ball for years, she additionally admitted she’d struggled in her private life. “Then in my personal life, I was a failure and a broken person,” she stated. “I can’t f***ing believe I’m alive sometimes.” Drew additionally went on to say that point actually heals. “Time is the greatest asset we have — it allows things to get better, to shift, to have light come into a dark space,” she shared. “It has taken my whole life to get here, but I’m so happy to be out of the jail in my mind.”
The Wedding Singer star famously battled dependancy and psychological well being points in her youth — however elsewhere within the interview, she stated she’s kicked her alcohol behavior for good. “I drank for, oh God, since I was nine,” she divulged. “And then one day, I just thought, ‘I’m never going to do this again.’ I don’t have cravings. I have alcohol all over my house. I serve people drinks. It’s a confident choice. But it took me 35 years to get there. So, once I got there, I was really done.”
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