The Double Life Of Drew Barrymore
As a child, Barrymore was raised by her mother, Jaid. In a 1989 interview with People, the then-13-year-old actress described her truly heartbreaking relationship with her father, John Drew Barrymore. She said, "He never lived with us, and when I was little all my friends had [a father], and I thought, 'Well, I must be some kind of alien because I don't.'"
She continued, "Once, when I was really little, he spent the night with us, and the next morning he came into my room. I looked up at him and asked, 'Dad?' I was really scared he was going to say no, he was just a friend. But he said, 'Yeah.'" She remembered, "I felt so happy thinking he was going to be back in my life."
Unfortunately, it apparently wasn't meant to be, and things with her mother weren't much better. At age 14, she and Jaid went before a judge to request that she be emancipated. She wrote in her memoir, Wildflower, "It's no secret that I had to part ways from my mother because we had driven our relationship into the ground," noting, "She had lost credibility as a mother by taking me to Studio 54 (so wrong, but so fun) instead of school."
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