After her parents divorced, when Barrymore was nine, her mother, Jaid, took her to Studio 54, where she was introduced to drugs and encouraged to dance with famous young men. By the age of 13, she found herself beginning an 18-month stint in hospital, where she was treated for alcohol and drug addiction.

As such, Barrymore emancipated herself from her parents at the age of 14, and moved into her own place.

“It was a very important thing to experience for me,” she told The Guardian. “It was very humbling, very quieting.

“Maybe it was necessary, because I came out of there a more respecting person. And my parents didn’t teach me that, and life wasn’t teaching me that. I came out in a very different way… but I still was me.”

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