January 5, 2025 • 10 mins
Drew Barrymore's very early relationship with acting and fame has shaped her into an overly honest and intense person. She invites the big celebrities onto her self-titled talk show and we all squirm while watching her interact.
So why was she unemployable by 14?
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast. MoMA Maya acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hello and welcome to canceled The Lazy
(00:31):
Girl's Guide to Bizarre Celebrity Cancelations. It is Jesse and
Claire Stevens here, and we wanted to give you a
little present. Hi. We do, and we will be in
your ears for the whole holiday period. We know you
need something to listen to before we return to normal
programming on January fourteen. So Mom Maya is putting on
a hot pod. Summer's heartened. Here must be Summer. We're
(00:55):
giving you our favorite moments, and today we need to
talk about Drew Barrymore. She's a hand fondler. Some call
her she gets too close. Oh yeah, you're wondering what
I was talking. She started her career as a baby
on an AD and she went on to star in
the wedding singer Charlie's Angels and fifty first Dates. Her
(01:16):
very early relationship with acting and fame has shaped her
into an overly honest and some might say intense person.
She invites big celebrities onto her self titled talk show
and Look, we need to talk about the time she
called Kamala Mamala. I think Kamala's kids call her Mamla.
They do, but it was just the Drew Barrymore said, Sorry,
(01:38):
Drew Barmo mama. Anyway, this is a moment from our
big episode on Drew Barrymore. By eleven, Barrymore had an
alcohol problem. By twelve, she says she was a drug addict.
By thirteen, she was self harming and hospitalized for a
year and a half, and by fourteen she was divorced
from her parents and living on her own. She went
(02:00):
on to star in some of the most iconic films ever,
Never Been Kissed. Sorry, Amily, it took me forever to
go there. I know what she meant. Fabulous, Ah disagree,
scream you never told me your name? Why do you
want to know my name? I don't want to know
who I'm looking at? What did you say? Ex fabulous
(02:21):
Charlie's angels, Good morning Angels, good morning Charlie fabulous? Ever
after watch it at school? The wedding Singer fifty first
Dates music and Lyrics, where Hugh Grant was like, I
don't think she likes me. Remember she came up in
that episode, and most recently she was in Santa Clara Diet.
Do you remember that, Yeah, Clarita don I don't know.
(02:42):
I didn't watch it. I think it was about zombies.
It was very trying to be the walking Dead anyway.
Now she hosts her own talk show called The Drew
Barrymore Show. Oh, thanks for hanging out with us. Can
I just share something and be totally honest? I am
rocking the caffeine this morning because I pulled an all
nighter with my daughter. Frankie. I'm sure you thought everything
(03:04):
goes exactly according to plan at all times around here,
right ah ah, which I consume solely through TikTok, and
we're going to get to it comes up a fair
bit before we begin, Oh I Drew, Yeah, No, always
get good vibes. She seems like she'd be lovely in person. Yeah. So,
I think she's a good actress. And this was a
(03:26):
surprisingly difficult episode to prep for because despite being in
the industry since she was eleven months old, she's not
been canceled that often. What's happened not very often. She
seems very sweet, and she's had a rough upbringing and
come back from that, which personally, I find commendable. But
it also goes to show how great it was that
(03:49):
for somebody like Drew Barrymore, social media didn't exist when
she was a teenager because she got to just go
to rehab. Yes, but when she was I think she
was about nineteen, and she was on Larry one of
the one of the Larry's, David Letterman, David Lettiman, and
she danced on the table and she flashed him. And
(04:11):
that's on the internet. Was that cringe? This is the
thing the Internet. I fucking loves Drew Barrymore. Yeah. All
the comments are just like, she's classic Drew. She's a
good time, she's fun, she's so nineties, love her hair,
and I'm like, she flashed David Letterman. I'm not canceling it,
but neither are you. Yeah. So look, I don't decide
who's in the cancel courtroom. The culture does. And my
(04:33):
structure for today is as follows the original NEPO Baby
unemployable by fourteen, She says she'd had a midlife crisis,
but I reck you and I was unemployable by fourteen.
But that's because No, I did make a horrific mistakes
at Boostooth I didn't shoar up for my second shift
because I'm not confused at the video shop, so I
was unemployable. No, Muma called and said, can you hire
(04:55):
her back? And they said, okay. Dancing in the Rain
is Drew Barrymore a scab? And lastly the Drew Barrymore Show. Yes,
the original Nappo Baby Little Drew was born to two actors,
but that is not the whole story. She comes from
a family of actors that stretches back. Yes, how many
(05:15):
years do you think? I think like three generations? No, God, wait,
there was no acting three generations ago. I don't know
four hundred years what I thought the same about act
There was no acting four hundred, four hundred years. I
didn't know. This is in my notes. I didn't know
that had act just four hundred years ago. Thought they
we had farmers. Okay, Shakespeare comes up? Is that I'm like,
(05:36):
I didn't do the maths, but Shakespeare hundred vibes? Yeah,
now two thousands ish, cannot be sure, but I'm thinking
four hundred years ish. So I'm imagining a great great
great great great grandfather or grandmother, probably grandfather because patriarchy
in Tight's Midsummer Night's Dream with his willy contour app Yeah,
and looking a lot like Drew. Oh, looking exactly atro
(05:57):
Drew's face. Look, you saw her in the dog food commercial.
You can't deny her talent. But even Barrymore says she
was on movie sets from day one. So when they
needed a baby, it's like, how about we get the
one suck in the camera because you always wonder you
see like a baby in a show, you think it
is that it's always the wrong age. It's your newborn
and it's a three year old. Yeah, that's a plot point,
(06:20):
that fourteen kilo baby. Why did that person birth a
fully formed human being. Her godmother is Italian actress Sophia
Laren and her godfather is a bit more low key,
Steven Spielbert. She asked after et if he could be
her godfather, and her mum was like, okay, fine. When
she was nineteen and she posed naked for Playboy, Spielberg
(06:41):
sent her a large quilt with a note attached that
simply read, cover up what a good godfather? Had some
advice I mean no nor sexiest patriarchy, etcetera. But but
she didn't have a dad. It's cute that there's a
photo of her at nine years old beside President Ronald Reagan.
But and this is where I'm always uncomfortable with the
(07:04):
NEPO baby stuff. It might have given her a leg
up in her career, but her home life a mess.
Her dad was an alcoholic, left when she was nine,
although he'd always been absent, and around that time when
her I think she was about eight years old when
her mum was like, babe, let's go clubbing five nights weet, oh, no,
fifty yeah, which brings us to unemployable by fourteen. In
(07:28):
an interview with the Guardian, Barrymore says that by her
mid teens she couldn't get a job. You won't believe it,
but all that clubbing and no school meant that Barrymore
was chaos. She was stealing a mum's car and, in
her words, out of control. She says she was drinking
at nine, smoking pot at ten, using cocaine at twelve,
which meant she was blacklisted from Hollywood for having reputation
(07:51):
as a party girl. Can you imagine a party girl
that's just a child? Yes? Okay, So you're a director
or a producer and you're out at the club and
you're seeing a twelve year old's not cocaine and you're like, ugh,
just another party girl going too hard on a Tuesday night,
not being like maybe we should confiscate with her. Yeah,
do you need some help because by my calculations, you
(08:13):
should be in year six? You should be in year six.
Would you like some ice cream with some iced magic?
Because that should be the fun. Why don't you go
to your room and play this great game called the Sims.
You should be playing the Sims in a dressing gown.
But yeah, it's weird to look at that kid and
be like, here comes track listing. You just another party girl,
(08:36):
just twelve. So she was sent to rehab twice before
she was thirteen. Imagine being in rehab rehab people it's
like your hair. No, we aren't hereat substance abuse in children. Yeah,
I feel like that's an issue. Then at thirteen, Drew
(08:56):
Barrymore's mum Jade was like, I've had enough. I can't
do this, So she sent her to a psychiatric facility
for one year and one half eighteen months. She sent
her to a psychiatric unit that she couldn't leave. She
was like, you're a lot and it's like, no shit,
on her twelfth birthday, she was not in the cocaine yeap.
That is so sad And it reminds me of this
(09:16):
thing I've heard people say where it's like you can
be like when you talk about privilege, Yeah, economically privileged,
but like family wise, incredibly emotionally yeah deprived. Yeah yeah,
And that's what it was, was her. And you think privilege
is more complicated than simply having parents who happened to
be in Hollywood, Yeah, because the cost of that was big.
(09:39):
So while she was there, a few professionals advised that
she emancipate herself from her mother, who maybe wasn't the
best influence. So by fourteen she was living on her
own divorce from her parents. She washed dishes and worked
some normal jobs for a few years, but eventually she
got a role in an erotic thrill out called Poison
IVY in nineteen ninety two, and her career skyrocketed from there.
(10:00):
To listen to that entire episode, click the link. In
our show notes, we're investigating the serious stuff like is
she a scab? Does she know what personal spaces? And
why does she sometimes make us feel weird when she's
sitting on people's laps. Sometimes she's kneeling in front of people. Yeah, prostrating.
It's somewhat say. We're recanceling three things every week of
(10:21):
the summer break, including celebrities, TV shows, celebrity couples, and
press tours because we need to keep the investigations running.
Someone's got to do it. You can find videos from
the podcast and evidence of celebrity crimes on our Instagram
at the Twins Underscore Thoughts, or on TikTok at cancel
the podcast, Bye Bye,
You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast. MoMA Maya acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hello and welcome to canceled The Lazy
(00:31):
Girl's Guide to Bizarre Celebrity Cancelations. It is Jesse and
Claire Stevens here, and we wanted to give you a
little present. Hi. We do, and we will be in
your ears for the whole holiday period. We know you
need something to listen to before we return to normal
programming on January fourteen. So Mom Maya is putting on
a hot pod. Summer's heartened. Here must be Summer. We're
(00:55):
giving you our favorite moments, and today we need to
talk about Drew Barrymore. She's a hand fondler. Some call
her she gets too close. Oh yeah, you're wondering what
I was talking. She started her career as a baby
on an AD and she went on to star in
the wedding singer Charlie's Angels and fifty first Dates. Her
(01:16):
very early relationship with acting and fame has shaped her
into an overly honest and some might say intense person.
She invites big celebrities onto her self titled talk show
and Look, we need to talk about the time she
called Kamala Mamala. I think Kamala's kids call her Mamla.
They do, but it was just the Drew Barrymore said, Sorry,
(01:38):
Drew Barmo mama. Anyway, this is a moment from our
big episode on Drew Barrymore. By eleven, Barrymore had an
alcohol problem. By twelve, she says she was a drug addict.
By thirteen, she was self harming and hospitalized for a
year and a half, and by fourteen she was divorced
from her parents and living on her own. She went
(02:00):
on to star in some of the most iconic films ever,
Never Been Kissed. Sorry, Amily, it took me forever to
go there. I know what she meant. Fabulous, Ah disagree,
scream you never told me your name? Why do you
want to know my name? I don't want to know
who I'm looking at? What did you say? Ex fabulous
(02:21):
Charlie's angels, Good morning Angels, good morning Charlie fabulous? Ever
after watch it at school? The wedding Singer fifty first
Dates music and Lyrics, where Hugh Grant was like, I
don't think she likes me. Remember she came up in
that episode, and most recently she was in Santa Clara Diet.
Do you remember that, Yeah, Clarita don I don't know.
(02:42):
I didn't watch it. I think it was about zombies.
It was very trying to be the walking Dead anyway.
Now she hosts her own talk show called The Drew
Barrymore Show. Oh, thanks for hanging out with us. Can
I just share something and be totally honest? I am
rocking the caffeine this morning because I pulled an all
nighter with my daughter. Frankie. I'm sure you thought everything
(03:04):
goes exactly according to plan at all times around here,
right ah ah, which I consume solely through TikTok, and
we're going to get to it comes up a fair
bit before we begin, Oh I Drew, Yeah, No, always
get good vibes. She seems like she'd be lovely in person. Yeah. So,
I think she's a good actress. And this was a
(03:26):
surprisingly difficult episode to prep for because despite being in
the industry since she was eleven months old, she's not
been canceled that often. What's happened not very often. She
seems very sweet, and she's had a rough upbringing and
come back from that, which personally, I find commendable. But
it also goes to show how great it was that
(03:49):
for somebody like Drew Barrymore, social media didn't exist when
she was a teenager because she got to just go
to rehab. Yes, but when she was I think she
was about nineteen, and she was on Larry one of
the one of the Larry's, David Letterman, David Lettiman, and
she danced on the table and she flashed him. And
(04:11):
that's on the internet. Was that cringe? This is the
thing the Internet. I fucking loves Drew Barrymore. Yeah. All
the comments are just like, she's classic Drew. She's a
good time, she's fun, she's so nineties, love her hair,
and I'm like, she flashed David Letterman. I'm not canceling it,
but neither are you. Yeah. So look, I don't decide
who's in the cancel courtroom. The culture does. And my
(04:33):
structure for today is as follows the original NEPO Baby
unemployable by fourteen, She says she'd had a midlife crisis,
but I reck you and I was unemployable by fourteen.
But that's because No, I did make a horrific mistakes
at Boostooth I didn't shoar up for my second shift
because I'm not confused at the video shop, so I
was unemployable. No, Muma called and said, can you hire
(04:55):
her back? And they said, okay. Dancing in the Rain
is Drew Barrymore a scab? And lastly the Drew Barrymore Show. Yes,
the original Nappo Baby Little Drew was born to two actors,
but that is not the whole story. She comes from
a family of actors that stretches back. Yes, how many
(05:15):
years do you think? I think like three generations? No, God, wait,
there was no acting three generations ago. I don't know
four hundred years what I thought the same about act
There was no acting four hundred, four hundred years. I
didn't know. This is in my notes. I didn't know
that had act just four hundred years ago. Thought they
we had farmers. Okay, Shakespeare comes up? Is that I'm like,
(05:36):
I didn't do the maths, but Shakespeare hundred vibes? Yeah,
now two thousands ish, cannot be sure, but I'm thinking
four hundred years ish. So I'm imagining a great great
great great great grandfather or grandmother, probably grandfather because patriarchy
in Tight's Midsummer Night's Dream with his willy contour app Yeah,
and looking a lot like Drew. Oh, looking exactly atro
(05:57):
Drew's face. Look, you saw her in the dog food commercial.
You can't deny her talent. But even Barrymore says she
was on movie sets from day one. So when they
needed a baby, it's like, how about we get the
one suck in the camera because you always wonder you
see like a baby in a show, you think it
is that it's always the wrong age. It's your newborn
and it's a three year old. Yeah, that's a plot point,
(06:20):
that fourteen kilo baby. Why did that person birth a
fully formed human being. Her godmother is Italian actress Sophia
Laren and her godfather is a bit more low key,
Steven Spielbert. She asked after et if he could be
her godfather, and her mum was like, okay, fine. When
she was nineteen and she posed naked for Playboy, Spielberg
(06:41):
sent her a large quilt with a note attached that
simply read, cover up what a good godfather? Had some
advice I mean no nor sexiest patriarchy, etcetera. But but
she didn't have a dad. It's cute that there's a
photo of her at nine years old beside President Ronald Reagan.
But and this is where I'm always uncomfortable with the
(07:04):
NEPO baby stuff. It might have given her a leg
up in her career, but her home life a mess.
Her dad was an alcoholic, left when she was nine,
although he'd always been absent, and around that time when
her I think she was about eight years old when
her mum was like, babe, let's go clubbing five nights weet, oh, no,
fifty yeah, which brings us to unemployable by fourteen. In
(07:28):
an interview with the Guardian, Barrymore says that by her
mid teens she couldn't get a job. You won't believe it,
but all that clubbing and no school meant that Barrymore
was chaos. She was stealing a mum's car and, in
her words, out of control. She says she was drinking
at nine, smoking pot at ten, using cocaine at twelve,
which meant she was blacklisted from Hollywood for having reputation
(07:51):
as a party girl. Can you imagine a party girl
that's just a child? Yes? Okay, So you're a director
or a producer and you're out at the club and
you're seeing a twelve year old's not cocaine and you're like, ugh,
just another party girl going too hard on a Tuesday night,
not being like maybe we should confiscate with her. Yeah,
do you need some help because by my calculations, you
(08:13):
should be in year six? You should be in year six.
Would you like some ice cream with some iced magic?
Because that should be the fun. Why don't you go
to your room and play this great game called the Sims.
You should be playing the Sims in a dressing gown.
But yeah, it's weird to look at that kid and
be like, here comes track listing. You just another party girl,
(08:36):
just twelve. So she was sent to rehab twice before
she was thirteen. Imagine being in rehab rehab people it's
like your hair. No, we aren't hereat substance abuse in children. Yeah,
I feel like that's an issue. Then at thirteen, Drew
(08:56):
Barrymore's mum Jade was like, I've had enough. I can't
do this, So she sent her to a psychiatric facility
for one year and one half eighteen months. She sent
her to a psychiatric unit that she couldn't leave. She
was like, you're a lot and it's like, no shit,
on her twelfth birthday, she was not in the cocaine yeap.
That is so sad And it reminds me of this
(09:16):
thing I've heard people say where it's like you can
be like when you talk about privilege, Yeah, economically privileged,
but like family wise, incredibly emotionally yeah deprived. Yeah yeah,
And that's what it was, was her. And you think privilege
is more complicated than simply having parents who happened to
be in Hollywood, Yeah, because the cost of that was big.
(09:39):
So while she was there, a few professionals advised that
she emancipate herself from her mother, who maybe wasn't the
best influence. So by fourteen she was living on her
own divorce from her parents. She washed dishes and worked
some normal jobs for a few years, but eventually she
got a role in an erotic thrill out called Poison
IVY in nineteen ninety two, and her career skyrocketed from there.
(10:00):
To listen to that entire episode, click the link. In
our show notes, we're investigating the serious stuff like is
she a scab? Does she know what personal spaces? And
why does she sometimes make us feel weird when she's
sitting on people's laps. Sometimes she's kneeling in front of people. Yeah, prostrating.
It's somewhat say. We're recanceling three things every week of
(10:21):
the summer break, including celebrities, TV shows, celebrity couples, and
press tours because we need to keep the investigations running.
Someone's got to do it. You can find videos from
the podcast and evidence of celebrity crimes on our Instagram
at the Twins Underscore Thoughts, or on TikTok at cancel
the podcast, Bye Bye,
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