Fame

In April’s W, Drew Barrymore opens up about her estranged relationship with her parents.

She says she still has “no contact” with her mother, Jaid, from whom she legally emancipated herself at the age of 17 because she was a bad influence. (Barrymore famously went to rehab twice by age 13.)

“My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled,” she says.

In her upcoming HBO movie Grey Gardens, Barrymore plays Edie, the devoted daughter of Edith Bouvier Beale, a first cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. “Edie chose her mother over the world,” Barrymore says, adding that their relationship was “a love story.”In real life, Barrymore says she and her mother are “the polar opposite.”

Her relationship with her father, actor John Barrymore, was less arduous.An alcoholic, he left before she was born and was absent for much of her childhood.

“He was so feeble, I could actually nail him down,” she sarcastically says. “He was such a flighty bird — unattainable and off doing his own thing. I’m sure it’s affected my relationships with men. I’m sure I’m sadder about it than I admit, but I accept that a lot easier than my mother’s and my relationship, which is more tumultuous.” (more…)

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