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Drew Barrymoreis opening up about what she would tell her younger self.
“She wouldn’t have listened,” Barrymore told PEOPLE Monday. “But I have better advice for myself now. I like trying to tell myself to please react with grace. Be on the high road. Don’t flip out about everything. Find calm, find peace.”
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“Those are things I wish I could’ve told myself when I was a kid, but I would’ve never thought those things were possible, nor did I really want them at that time. Now I want them,” she continued.
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“I wanted wild, rebellious fun,” theSanta Clarita Dietactress added.
Barrymore has previously been open about her “wild” past, includingbeing admitted to Van Nuys Psychiatric Hospitalfor 18 months when she was 13 years old.
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In celebration of the Season 2 premiere ofThe Drew Barrymore Showin September last year, Barrymore, who lives in New York, took a tour of Los Angeles and stopped at the institution where she spent time as a child. Sherecalled the experiencein a video clip, discussing how it shaped her into the woman she is today.
“I was a real wild child and I just got so out of control that no one knew what to do with me,” Barrymore tearfully shared at the time.
source: people.com
