Drew Barrymore Hated Growing up in The Public Eye
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DREW Barrymore experienced “tremendous pain” growing up in the public eye.
The 35-year-old actress — who first took cocaine at the age of 12 — admits the attention of being in tabloid newspapers while she was a teenager was difficult to deal with.
“My hedonistic moment wasn’t that tumultuous,” she said. “It just happened at such a young age so it seemed way crazier than it was. Everyone goes to a point where they do stuff excessively.
“And the majority of people bounce back. Some of them fall into the rabbit hole – I just got mine out of the way early.
“There were moments when I experienced tremendous pain with everything being so known. You’re like, ‘Can I f***ing f**k up or have an embarrassing moment or do anything in f***ing private?’ ”
However, she admits she eventually realized all teenagers experience similar problems, just on a smaller scale.
“If you’re a 16-year-old and in high school and it doesn’t work out with the guy, and everyone’s talking about it in the hallways, it’s the same feeling,” she said. “It’s all relative.”
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