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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Drew Barrymore

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Drew Barrymore has been acting nearly her entire life, but it was not always glamorous. In this episode of "Sunday Sitdown," the actress opens up to Willie Geist about those tough early years growing up in Hollywood, what it’s like to be a mom now, and her latest adventure on the small screen in in Netflix’s “Santa Clarita Diet.” She also reflects on that infamous interview with David Letterman, plus what she sees on the horizon after 35 years in the industry.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist back with another episode of Sunday Sitdown, our podcast where you

0:06.8

get the full interview, the full interview with some of the biggest stars on the planet

0:11.6

for my show Sunday Today on NBC every week we do a Sunday Sitdown interview that gives

0:16.2

you about seven or eight minutes with these people, which is a lot of time in TV time

0:20.4

that I wanted more time.

0:21.6

I was greedy.

0:22.6

I knew how much was sitting on the cutting room floor when we edited these great conversations

0:27.2

because I do get an hour sometimes more with these people and I wanted the rest to see

0:32.5

the light of day and that's what brought us to this podcast.

0:36.0

After two years on the air with Sunday Today we finally have a place to give you the rest

0:40.6

of it.

0:41.6

And today my guest on Sunday Sitdown is Drew Barrymore.

0:46.2

I mean what else can you say about Drew Barrymore that hasn't already been said?

0:49.7

Well she's got a lot to say it turns out.

0:52.2

When you are a superstar at age seven, starring in ET, one of the biggest most iconic movies

0:57.5

of all time, it kind of does something to your life and she went through a lot and she

1:02.2

talks about it all with me.

1:03.6

She was divorced from her parents, legally divorced from her parents.

1:08.1

She was living on her own when she was 14 years old in Los Angeles trying to figure out

1:12.8

how to fold laundry and walk everywhere she had to go because she hadn't gotten a driver's

1:17.8

license obviously.

1:19.8

Kind of being in those deep valleys with drugs and alcohol and you look at her now and

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