Watch Drew Barrymore Learn The Truth Behind Death Threats From 'Selma Blair'!
15.09.2022 - 18:29
/ perezhilton.com
It’s the face-off you didn’t know you needed!
For those who haven’t read Selma Blair‘s book Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up, there’s a strange tale that links her with Drew Barrymore — one the latter was eager to get to the bottom of in their first conversation on her daytime talk show.
In the interview, released on Wednesday, Selma explained that as she wrote in her book, she had a very toxic relationship with her father Elliot Beitner — and it ended up oddly involving the Never Been Kissed star. She began:
This goes all the way back to Selma’s start in the business, after she got her first job on a movie. The problem? The producers of the film started getting letters pushing the untrue claim that the aspiring actress “was a heroin addict.” It completely wrecked her budding career, as she explained:
But suddenly she was more trouble than she was worth. Pfft. The joke’s on them, they threw away a chance to have Selma Blair in their movie!
Related: Selma Details Being Sexually Assaulted By Her Boarding School Dean
Selma, still a teen at the time, assumed the letter writer was just a high school bully, just a mean girl prank gone too far. But it didn’t end there. Soon after more letters were going out — this time to Drew! The Cruel Intentions alum recalled being approached by police over death threats being sent to the child star:
She was shocked — but not as much as when she found the source of the letters:
Selma revealed in her book it was her father’s girlfriend at the time. She explained to Drew:
Oof. It sounds like this woman had some serious problems! She was gaslighting a man to drive a wedge into his relationship with his teenage daughter! And the sad thing is, it worked…
Selma told Drew she and her father “never