It is not presumptuous to say that the US actress Drew Barrymore (48), who recently also worked as a film producer and presenter, can look back on an eventful life. She was THE broken Hollywood teenager of the 80s par excellence. After her 1982 role in ET, she continued to slide. The “Little Lost Girl” (the title of a biography) soon found herself in the psychiatric clinic.
Barrymore was eight years old when she downed her first alcoholic drink. As the US gossip platform “Mama Mia” reported from her memories, Jung-Drew was with her mother Jaid at the closing party for the science fiction horror film “Firestarter” in 1984.
While the moms otherwise entertained themselves, Drew chatted with two members of the film’s crew who she met during filming. Young, sassy and competitive, the child star bet them that she could have two glasses of champagne with no problem.
They hesitated at first, but she insisted. “No, I bet I can!” So she was handed a crystal glass. “Now, down with that, the bubbly…” Two sips were enough. Then another glass, in the same mode.
“I was tipsy and high and the focus of the party,” Barrymore said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 1990. “I felt sooo good. All my problems seemed to go away the moment I kicked myself out…’ The following year she was already getting drunk on occasion.
She tried marijuana at 10 and cocaine at 12. A troubled, dependent child in the spotlight. Later, nobody would have bet $20 that she would go on to become a solid actress-producer-businesswoman again. One who has (partially) defeated her spirits today.
In her current role as a talk show host, she was interviewing 23-year-old actress and singer Reneé Rapp on Monday (August 21) at the 92nd Street Y studio in New York when a man in the audience loudly called her name .
Various social media images and video snippets captured a visibly confused Barrymore exclaiming, “Oh my god, yeah? Hi!” For the moment, it seemed like one of the screwed-up suitors from her early days was reappearing.
The caller introduced himself as Chad Michael Busto. He then took the stage saying, “You know who I am. I’ll have to see you up close sometime while I’m here in New York…”
Security immediately intervened and surrounded the audience, while hostess Rapp escorted host Barrymore off the stage.
As journalist McKenzie Morrell reports on the ex-Twitter channel “X”, Barrymore later returned to the talk event, which was supposed to promote Rapp’s debut album “Snow Angel”. McKenzie said that “both handled it with confidence” and “quickly caught themselves to continue their great conversation…”
Drew Barrymore has not yet commented on the incident. According to the US broadcaster NBC News, the New York police said that no complaint had been made about the incident.
Drew Barrymore may have already had some tips for her young colleague Rapp, who plays the role of Leighton Murray in the HBO series “The Sex Lives Of College Girls”, on how not to smear in the US showbiz shark tank. Rapp, meanwhile, announced that she will be leaving the show after the third season. Now the blonde ex-musical star relies on the music. The debut album “Snow Angel” was released on August 18th.