Drew Barrymore Reflects On Being A Blackout Drinker

Drew Barrymore is lifting the lid on her past and sharing certain aspects of it that she wasn’t particularly proud of. Posing for Playboy, not very proud. Being an ex-alcoholic? A whole new level of shame.

Drew Barrymore – Wishes She Didn’t Drink So Much During Her Younger Years

Drew Barrymore hasn’t had a drink in five long years, so it may be hard to believe that at some point in her life, she was a “blackout drinker.”

The actress and talkshow host was moved to reflect on her past in this week’s episode of her talk show after watching Zoë Kravitz‘s ‘Blink Twice.’

“There’s a lot about substances in the film. I was shocked to realize that part of my journey that I was looking to find, the trauma inside of me and what is it about, a big part of it was I used to be a blackout drinker,” Barrymore, 49, told Zoë Kravitz during her appearance on the Tuesday, Sept. 10 episode of the show.

She praised the movie for leading her on an “extraordinary journey for me to forgive myself, because I’ve put myself in situations I shouldn’t have put myself in. And I felt so much shame about that, and I haven’t had a drink in five years.”

Zoë Kravitz – On Wanting To Make A “Vulnerable” Movie Where Things “Spiral Out of Control”

It’s so easy to go from calm to losing control in a second, and Kravitz wanted to deeply explore that aspect of reality when making the movie.

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Further speaking to Kravitz on the movie’s emotional subject matter, Barrymore added, “It is not only a film about the things that can happen to us, but it made me think about the things we’ve done to ourselves.”

She then asked Kravitz, “Was there any part of you that was aware of that in making it? Because there are so many messages being brought up here.”

Kravitz, who made her directorial debut with the movie starring Channing Tatum, agreed, adding, “The substances were, I think, more of a way to get the characters to the most vulnerable place possible. When you let yourself go and you lose yourself it’s so easy for things to spiral out of control.”

To your point as well, when we allow ourselves to be in those kind of situations there is so much shame when we get to the other side,” she continued. “So we make mistakes, we hurt ourselves, we get hurt by others and then often times we are left to deal with the consequences on our own.”

“There’s always that feeling or idea [of], ‘Well you drank it, you got on the plane, you wore the short skirt,’ and it’s just so much more complicated than that,” the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ star explained.

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