"I didn't get the 30-day Malibu treatment center," Barrymore said. I just thought it would screw me up for life.”īarrymore said being institutionalized was nothing like the rehab facilities people see late-night ads for. "She created a monster." Locked away at Van Nuys Psychiatric Hospital for 18 months, "I was so upset at having my freedom taken away like that. "She didn't know what to do with me," Barrymore said of her mom, who would take her to clubs in the '80s. She first got sober at 13 when her mom had her institutionalized. Like Lovato, Barrymore had her own drug and alcohol addiction struggle. So today I’m exploring my childhood story, how I’ve grown and how I’ve healed and who I am now, alongside someone who has had a fascinating life of her own,” referring to 46-year-old Barrymore, who was in E.T. "I read that you have to reconstruct the past so that you can deconstruct its meaning.
"I was on Barney & Friends being a kid but in many ways feeling like an adult," as the family breadwinner. “I'm not sure you can remember what you were doing at 8 years old," Lovato, 28, said at the top of the episode. On the new 4D With Demi Lovato podcast, they spoke about addiction, being institutionalized and shedding their child star images. While they grew up in Hollywood decades apart, Demi Lovato and Drew Barrymore have found a lot of common ground as recovering child stars.