Drew Barrymore once quipped, “I’m certainly not known for being boring.” Indeed, having grown up a scion of an acting dynasty, she first found fame at age 7. A chaotic home life revolving around an absent father and a mother who was “more like my best friend” quickly led to rehab stints, and emancipation and estrangement from her family.
“But you know what’s exciting? I got my s--t over with at, like, 14,” a reflective Drew says. “Mid-life crisis, institutionalised, blacklisted, no family, like, got it done.”
In recent years she’s rebuffed the spotlight, preferring a quiet life with her two daughters with third husband Will Kopelman, Olive, 7, and Frankie, 6. “They’ve made me such a calmer, better person,” says 45-year-old Drew. “I’ll never take the tone with them…
