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The emancipation of Drew Barrymore: Part two

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Society & Culture

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Happy Monday, everyone! Welcome to the second and final part of our series on Drew Barrymore. Drew started drinking at eight, smoking at nine and was regularly doing cocaine by the time she was thirteen years old. How did this troubled but talented young actress turn her spiraling reputation into a $125 million legacy? Big thanks to the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 for making this episode possible. Show your support and purchase your tickets at www.fifa.com/tickets. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast. Want to support our show? We are sending air kisses, air tea, and air hugs (too far?) to anyone who clicks ‘subscribe’ on Apple (bonus hugs for anyone who leaves a five-star review, too) or ‘follow’ on Spotify. Still not enough? Well! Our hearts! See below for everything else. Subscribe to the weekly ‘ASK SHAMELESS’ newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gFbYLT Join our book club: https://www.instagram.com/theshamelessbookclub/ Check out our website: https://shamelessmediaco.com/ Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours.

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0:00.0

You're about the new moves, call me a renegade, the one in the lions cage,

0:07.0

sipping on lemonadeo.

0:10.0

I'm a dream, got your match, stick the actor, I'm a dream, got your match, stick smoking at 9 and was going to see.

0:14.0

Yeah, you can call me the Queen.

0:16.0

Drew Barrymore started drinking at 8, smoking at 9,

0:20.0

and was regularly doing cocaine

0:22.0

by the time she was 13 years old.

0:24.0

So how exactly did this troubled but talented actress turn her spiraling reputation

0:29.0

into a 125 million dollar fortune? Welcome to Scandal from Shameless

0:34.8

Podcast, the stories of the biggest celebrity controversies revisited.

0:38.6

Hello hello hello how we feeling? We are good we are back for part two let's have a chat about what we covered in episode one because there was a lot there and let me tell you there's a lot more to talk about We spoke about me initially Drew's entire family history kind of.

0:56.7

Now it was quite stunning to me how you know every generation that came before her almost were involved in acting.

1:04.0

Yeah, I mean the Barrymores have actually been referred to as Hollywood's first family

1:09.0

before which paints a pretty great picture as to how deep the acting lineage runs. In Drew's family

1:15.2

there's also a lengthy history of chaos to be honest from substance abuse to

1:20.3

tumultuous relationships suspected mental illness.

1:23.4

There is a lot to unpack when it comes to her relatives.

1:27.1

Yeah, absolutely.

1:28.2

Now this of course extended all the way to her mother Jade and her father, John Drew.

1:32.4

Now despite telling the media that she was

1:34.2

kind of hesitant to bring her daughter up in the same world that you know the rest of

1:38.1

the family were raised in, Jade did sign her up for gigs before she turned a year old.

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