Drew Barrymore's unstoppable rise, still Drew Barrymore is not just a child actress who has made it
Glory is like the stream. It comes, it goes, then it may come back, more impetuous than before, in unpredictable waves. Sometimes it washes over your ankles, sometimes it slaps you in the face and knocks you over. This is what has happened and continues to happen to Drew Barrymore. Her professional and personal story is complicated. She started working in advertising when she was just 11 months old. Driven to a disorderly life by her mother Jaid, an aspiring actress who wanted fame for her daughter, she entered rehab for the first time at 13. At 14, she attempted suicide and ended up in the hospital. The situation was clearly untenable and at 15 the girl pursued a process to emancipate herself from her parents, moving out on her own and trying to start over on the rubble of her childhood and early adolescence.
Drew Barrymore is not just a child actress who made it against all odds, or a nice woman who knows how to be popular. Drew Barrymore is the living example that flowers can grow from ashes, that not all personal matters can be dealt with in public, and that even though a woman is famous practically from birth and has endured and experienced unimaginable things, she must and can always strive to be the master of her own life and the narrative around her character again.
Control is the key word here. As a grown woman who is unfortunately used to some of the antics of the star system, Barrymore claims (and does) that she is in control of what she says, and when she disagrees with the magazines' interpretations, she personally intervenes to correct them or herself. An example to follow!
