“I was going to clubs and not to school and stealing my mom’s car and, you know, I was out of control. So, you know, it was sometimes as funny as that and sometimes I was very angry with go outside and then I would be thrown into the thing, “she said, explaining that” the thing “was a” complete psychiatric ward “where she was placed for 18 months.
Barrymore said it was not a comfortable rehab experience.
“I used to laugh at those places like Malibu for 30 days. Malibu was kind of the opposite of the experience I had, ”she recalled. “You couldn’t play inside, and if you did, you would be thrown into a padded room or placed on stretcher chains and tied.”
Barrymore said she was so angry that she “couldn’t see well” and couldn’t understand why she was being punished so severely.
“I wondered why this is happening. And I thought, maybe you need the craziest form of structure, because everything was so accessible and messy in your world that it might take something like that to get you started the rest of your life,” she said. “And it took about six to eight months. In the first six to eight months, I was very angry. I couldn’t see well.”
Through therapy and soul searching, Barrymore said he forgave his mother and did not want her to live in pain.
She added that the two are in contact and, in fact, had sent a text message on Monday morning before the interview.