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Drew Barrymore’s full name is Drew Blythe Barrymore. She was Born on the twenty second of February 1975. Drew Barrymore was the daughter of John Drew Barrymore Jr and Jaine Barrymore. Her great grandparents were actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew and her other grandparents were actors John Barrymore and Dolores Costella. When Drew was just a baby her father began taking her to auditions. Soon after she got a role in a short T.V. commercial when she was 11 months old. When Drew was young her most famous role was as Gertie in E.T. Managers and producers started noticing Drew a whole lot more after this role.
At nine years old she was already smoking cigarettes. Things started getting crazier when Jaine (Drew’s mother) started taking Drew to night clubs when she was only 10 years old. Later that year she experimented with drugs for the first time. In 1984 she got drunk for the first time at age 11 and things seemed to start getting worse after that, but surprisingly her career seemed to take off that year too. Her crazy night life childhood made the media notice her. Two years later she made a scandal when she started doing cocaine. After being sober for two months Drew switched things around and stole her mothers credit car and hopped onto a plane to the west coast intending to go to Hawaii. But unlucky for Drew she was caught by a team of private investigators in Los Angeles and was led back to rehab but this time in handcuffs.
Barrymore became determined to stay on top of the game and have a clean break from her rebellious past. She stayed in rehab for three months then in 1989 she was interviewed in “People” magazine and appeared in a television show about teen drug abuse. Drew was still addicted to drugs and only months later soon enough she toppled off the wagon and hit rock bottom in July when she tried to commit suicide by slashing her wrists.Three more months of continued rehab came by before finally setting her addictions aside. She celebrated by becoming legally emancipated from her mother/manager at age 15.
At 16 she co-authorized her memoir Little Girl Lost. That year her career seemed to start recovering when she starred in the movie Poison Ivy and a television show called Malibu Road. When Drew played “Amy Fisher” in The Amy Fisher Story her name was all over newspapers and she kept it there when she married actor Jeremy Thomas. The marriage only lasted for two months. Other movies that got her career back on top were the following; Mad Love, Batman Forever, and Boys On the Side. In 1996 Scream completed the
“reborning” of her carrier.
In 1998 she stared in the Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler. Later that year she showed her acting abilities playing the 16th century version of Cinderella in the film Ever After. Even though she was not completely connected with her parents anymore she took in her long lost father and now only remains on speaking terms with her mother. She remarried Tom Green. Since 1994 Drew has managed her own production company, Flower Films and came out in the 1999 romantic comedy Never Been Kissed.
In and out of rehab, rebellious behavior, drugs, alcohol to club hopping Drew Barrymore strived through it all and now is looked at as a very successful actress and producer.
