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Drew Barrymore Was very open to the speed with which she grew up - and that includes in the legal sense. The child star was legally emancipated from his parents when she was only 14 years old. She continued this line of conduct after she had already lived in a mental health establishment for a year and a half in order and had received treatment for the abuse of drugs and alcohol. At that time, Barrymore had already followed the traces of his famous members of his family and became an actor known for his roles E.T. The extraterrestrial ,, Fire starter , And Irreconcilable differences .

The star had grown up for the most part of her father, John Drew Barrymore , and his relationship with his mother, Jaid Barrymore , was complicated in which Jaid treated it more like a friend than a child. Her mother did not establish appropriate limits for her, as Barrymore explained.

Thus, after leaving psychiatric installations, Barrymore decided to become emancipated and start living life (and working) as an adult. Read the rest to learn more about the legal proceedings and what the 48 -year -old actor shared on the experience.

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In its 2015 memories, Wild flower , Barrymore explained what led to his decision to emancipate.

"I had to separate from my mother because we had led our relationship in the soil," she wrote ( via The Guardian ). “She had lost her credibility as a mother taking me to studio 54 (so badly, but so fun) instead of the school. And I was out of control because of the work since the age of 11 months and what it had done in my childhood, which made me grow too quickly. Work was a very positive thing in my life, and unfortunately, it had been removed, because my mother also put me in an institution because she felt helpless. ""

In a blog article in May 2023, Barrymore opened his time to the institution and the state of mind in which she was when she lived there. "I got linked with a lot of children, because like me, they did not know where to get their anger and they no longer knew how to live life without needing to go high or self-destruction under a form and a way "," she shared.

In a 2019 interview with Howard Stern (Warning: Strong language in the clip above), she said that She is grateful for her stay in the establishment Despite the hating at the beginning, because it was not used to the borders. "That's what I needed," she said. "I left there, like the most humble person you could imagine. They saved my life."

In her book, Barrymore said that when she was 14 years old, she "wanted to start her life" and "do things according to her own conditions". She also explained that Jaid had supported the idea when she asked to be emancipated and was present at the court hearing.

"At the end of the day, the judge looked at me and told me these words, which stuck to me:" I can run the clock, but I can never turn it over. Are you ready for that? "" She said yes and the judge said, "I say an adult by this."

Barrymore wrote: "I left 18 in the eyes of California's state. It was going to be fun."

But it was not all the good times to be adults so early. Barrymore lived in a dilapidated apartment in Los Angeles, worked a job in a cafe in which she was not good and did not know how to do household chores, like laundry. While trying to come together, she also lived for two months with a musician David Crosby (his unique sponsor) and his wife, January dance , as she shared in the interview with Stern.

Barrymore made two films that were published in 1989 - I see you in the morning And Far from home - But did not act when his emancipation was granted. In her book, she wrote: "I know how to act", I thought ", but it has disappeared at the moment, and I don't know if they will come back to me. People thought I was crazy, even if I was not; I just grew up too fast. ""

She finally understood adult life. "Listening to the cats fighting in the aisle, I looked out by my window and I waited, as I did every morning, that the sun sets to tell me that everything was going to go", a- She writes. "And it was."

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Barrymore was emancipated in 1989, so the rules may not be exactly the same as today, but according to the official website of the Government of California, adolescents who are emancipated are not technically adults but "emancipated minors". Being emancipated means that adolescents aged 14 to 17 can live alone, register for credit cards, request work permits and can be prosecuted. Their parents are no longer required to support them financially.

On the other hand, emancipated minors - at least today - are always required to attend school, always need the authorization of a parent to get married and are not exempt from laws such as Be 18 to vote and 21 to buy or drink alcohol. Barrymore wrote in her book that she abandoned school when she was emancipated.

With hindsight now, Barrymore still feels that she has made the right decision.

"When I was emancipated by the courts at 14, the umbilical cord was cut, and I have not been the same since," she wrote in her blog article in May 2023. "He I had to go away and start becoming my own person. And at the age of 14, my own parent. "

But, she admitted that she "could not give herself glowing criticism", because she "drank too much" and "celebrated and burned the candle at each end".

"I just judge," she added. "It's my story. I was just trying to understand how to grow and who I wanted to become."

Naturally, going through everything she has had had an effect on the way Barrymore leads her two children, nine years old Franc and 10 years old olive , who she shares with the ex-husband Will Kopelman . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"Being a mother constantly triggers everything from my own childhood now," she wrote in her blog. "I live in an often petrified state of reflection on my past and I want to have different things for them. I want them to be protected. I want them to grow slowly. I want family, traditions and rules and borders. "

She is also in a healthier place with her own mother. "I'm always going to support her," Drew says People in December 2022. "I can't turn my back on the person who gave me my life. I can't do it. It would hurt me so much. I would find it so cruel. But there are times when I have realized that our chemistry and our behavior will increase in me a feeling where I must say: "Okay, I again need a break." "