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Drew Barrymore And Corey Feldman The two found renown with classic films at an early age . But they were also only children, doing normal things like going to the first date to the cinema. Each of them also made the headlines for very public battles with dependence before becoming sober. Continue to read to find out how children stars started to go out together, why the sobriety finally broke them and what they had to say on this subject during a recent meeting on The Drew Barrymore Show .

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When Feldman was invited On Barrymore's talk show In January 2023, he revealed that the two former children actors met at the end of the 80s by no one other than Steven Spielberg , who wrote and produces Feldman's film GOONIES and was the godfather of Barrymore and AND. director. At the time, she was a tween with the favorite of "The Biggest" for the age college. He recalled that his grandmother had told him that an employee of the Amblin studios had sounded to let him know that Barrymore was interested in meeting the Stay by me star.

"What happened is that I received a call one day," Feldman recalled (as mentioned in the Daily mail ). My grandmother says: "We have received a call from Steven's office [Spielberg], and the little girl of AND. wants to meet you because she has a crush on you. '"

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Soon Barrymore's mother, Jaid Barrymore , define the two on a "reading date" in the cinema. Still "years to obtain [their] licenses", they were chaperons in the theater, where Feldman remembers having held Barrymore's hand, 10 or 11 years old when they entered.

"I remember taking you to the cinema," he recalls. "You put your little hand for me to hold out, and I held your hand when we were crossing the street. I don't remember the film we saw, but I remember all of this."

"After that, we stayed friends," recalls Feldman for their first adolescence. But in 1989, the same year, they filmed CBS Schoolbreak Special 15 and become straight , they "date correctly" - an experience which included participation in the 1989 Oscars together. Barrymore remembers feeling under a dress outside the rack. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"I remember getting there and I remember seeing people in such creative failures," she recalls. "And I remember watching and thinking: 'Oh, I am very underlined. I wear a cotton Betsey Johnson dress. Oops! '"

Barrymore also recalled Feldman as a rock during The difficult period when she was emancipated from his mother After spending 18 months in treatment for alcohol and drug addiction. "We had this kind of relationship where they say:" availability of your friend "", she recalls in her show. "We were the embodiment of this. You were so kind, you were a place so sure for me."

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Unfortunately, their romantic relationship was short -lived. "We were so much the super small, a cute little object for the three months that we lasted or anything," said Feldman in his program. While Barrymore had found the recovery very young, his greatest difficulties were still in front of him.

"The other part of the great memory was that you already come together and that I felt ... Always by my problems. So you have become sober first," he noted.

At the end of 1989, Feldman, 18, had married his first wife ,, Vanessa Marcil . His substance problems have worsened, and he was arrested for related offenses twice next year, including an arrest in March which discovered 25 drug balloons in his car , according to a contemporary article in Los Angeles Times .

THE Lost boys Star finally joined her unique sweetheart on the road to sobriety after Enter rehabilitation in 1990 , according to People . "You first gathered your act," he told Barrymore. "It took me a few years after you."

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