Drew Barrymore Admits She 'Cannot Wait' For Her Mother To Die
06.06.2023 - 20:21
/ perezhilton.com
Drew Barrymore is ready to live in a world without her mother. Yeah, that has to be the most brutally honest, shocking thing we’ve ever heard Drew — and maybe any celeb — say!
The daytime talk show host sat down with New York Magazine Monday, where she got candid about her troubled relationship with her mother, Jaid Barrymore, and how she feels that in order for her to move on, she needs the 77-year-old to… well, kick the bucket.
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She explained that she’s actually jealous of her friends who have already lost their parents:
Damn, those are some harsh words… Especially coming from someone like Drew, who is known to be so sweet and empathetic.
The 48-year-old added:
Wow.
We know that the Charlie’s Angels and her parents had a tumultuous relationship growing up — and of course her hard-partying childhood is the stuff of Hollywood legend. She’s opened up many times about her troubled upbringing in the past, admitting that Jaid began taking her to Hollywood parties before she was even 10 years old, where she would drink alcohol and consume drugs. She told The Guardian in 2015 that by the age of 8, she referred to herself as a “party girl,” and was going out with her mother five nights a week. By the time she was 12, she was in rehab, and a year later, her mother administered her into a psychiatric facility. She explained at the time:
After she left the mental health center, Drew got emancipated from her parents, and has pretty much been on her own ever since.
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So, yeah, we can understand the sentiment of not being able to grow when such a traumatic figure still looms over you. But you