Drew Barrymore Calls Out ‘Tabloids’ for False Claim She Wished Her Mother Dead: ‘How Dare You’ (Video)
06.06.2023 - 16:29
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posted to her Instagram account.“I have been vulnerable and tried to figure out a very difficult, painful relationship while admitting it is difficult to do while a parent is alive, and that, for those of us that have to figure this out in real time, ‘cannot wait,’ as in they cannot wait for the time that the parent is dead,” Barrymore elaborated.“Do not twist my words around or ever say that I wished my mother was dead. I have never said that, I never would, and in fact, I go on to say that I wish that I never have to live an existence where I would wish that on someone.
Because that is sick,” she concluded.A post shared by Drew Barrymore (@drewbarrymore)In an interview with Vulture published on Monday, Barrymore opened up about her struggle to come to terms with her childhood and with the abuse and neglect she experienced growing up, particularly from her mother, Jaid Barrymore. Famously, Barrymore, who rocketed to fame as a 7-year-old in “E.T.
the Extra-Terrestrial,” was essentially raised to party alongside her mother while she was in elementary school. She developed a drug addiction and entered treatment when she was 13; she was legally emancipated from her mother the next year.
After speaking of fellow former child star Jennette McCurdy of “iCarly” —who wrote a book about her own abusive mother, “I’m Glad My Mom Died” — as well as Brooke Shields, Barrymore told Vulture’s E. Alex Jung, “All their moms are gone, and my mom’s not.”Referring to the fact that the other women came to terms with their own struggles after their mothers died, she said, “I don’t have that luxury… I cannot wait.
I don’t want to live in a state where I wish someone to be gone sooner than they’re meant to be so I can grow. I actually want her
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