Drew Barrymore Admits She Still Fears Being Sent Back To Rehab
05.03.2023 - 23:43
/ etcanada.com
Drew Barrymore has been candidly open about her struggles with drugs and alcohol over the years, first going to rehab when she was just 13.
In a new Los Angeles Times profile on the host of “The Drew Barrymore Show”, she explains she’s maintained various levels of sobriety over the years, but revealed that her drinking intensified after her 2016 divorce from Will Kopelman.
She received a loud wakeup call when her therapist of more than a decade told her he would no longer be able to treat her.
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“He just said, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’” Barrymore said. “It was really about my drinking. I said, ‘I get it. I’ve never respected you more. You see I’m not getting better. And I hope, one day, that I can earn your trust back.’”
In August 2019, shortly after shooting the pilot for her daytime talk show, she quit drinking.
“There’s a choice to be had in how you see your circumstances, and I refuse to be stifled as a human being because of what I lived through as a kid,” she said. “Don’t f**king cloak me in this dark s**t. I don’t want to take on anyone else’s perception of what it should have been, because I don’t feel that way. I think that I’m incredibly rebellious because of it.”
Those teenage stints in rehab may have been life-saving, but Barrymore also remembers the trauma she felt when, after exiting rehab against medical advice and then going on a cocaine binge, her mother hired men to abduct her, place her in handcuffs and return her to rehab.
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“I will always have the