According to Drew Barrymore, his alcohol-free life is one of the things he is most proud of. I think it’s one of the biggest tributes I could have done for the Barrymore name because we were all quite happy. It’s just like that. This was not enough for families and she wanted to stop it, she declared.
The whole Barrymore family had problems with alcohol. Here’s father John Drew Barrymore was an alcoholic, his aunt Diana acknowledged her addiction to drugs and alcohol in her biography Too Much, Too Soon, and her grandfather, the Shakespearean actor John Barrymore, drank himself to death.
I will be the one to break through this difficulty, and maybe my children and their children will be better off because of it. But don’t look at me as a drinker of health and well-being that I have together, continued the mother of two daughters Olivia (11) and Frankie (10).
John Barrymore in Bulldog Drummond’s Peril (1938)
The actress talked about her younger self on The Drew Barrymore Show last year. Yes, it was a really, really tk year. It was the year when I planted pt. When you stop asking, it’s not like all your problems go away. There are many forces behind it, including
She considered alcohol to be a poison, she still resorted to it, because when she had to face problems, she did not want to honor anything. I was better when I drank, she explained, adding that the divorce from her husband, Will Kopelman, was much more complicated than the alcohol problems.
Barrymore has struggled with verticality for years. I started five at the age of nine and tried cocaine at the age of twelve. When I look back on it, I don’t see it as sad or tragic. I’m glad it’s preventing him from falling. I was very stubborn and rebellious, I didn’t listen, and when someone gave me advice, I did the exact opposite, she recalled.
