The actress entered rehab at 13 during her second stint in rehab she completed Little Girl Lost, which was published when she was just 16.īarrymore’s drug and alcohol use began shortly after E.T. Barrymore started smoking weed at 10 and by 12 had moved on to cocaine. Barrymore’s drug and alcohol use began shortly after E.T. and that same year became the youngest person ever to host Saturday Night Live. At 7 she starred as Gertie in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster 1982 film E.T. It was even the subject of a 2018 New York Times Magazine Letter of Recommendation.īarrymore was just 11 months old when she got her start in a television commercial for Puppy Chow. The coming-of-age tale was a New York Times bestseller and although the book is now out of print, it has achieved cult-like status. I am not alone in my appreciation for it. My dog-eared copy has survived numerous book purges and cross-country moves. It ignited my love of celebrity memoirs, especially those by women. Little Girl Lost, Barrymore’s 1990 account of growing up as a child star in Hollywood, was my first celebrity autobiography. I blame Drew Barrymore for two things: the amount of money I have spent on celebrity memoirs and an unfortunate attempt to dye my hair platinum blonde in 1993, inspired by Drew’s locks in a Seventeen magazine Guess Jeans ad. Lisa Whittington-Hill | Longreads | May, 2021 | 29 minutes (7,916 words) Join Longreads and help us to support more writers.
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