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Drew Barrymore: Age
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Actress Drew Barrymore was a child star whose career went stereotypically AWOL , including such highlights as smoking dope at age 10, and snorting cocaine at age 12. Unlike other child stars who suffered a similar fate, Drew has pulled herself back together and become an accomplished actor and producer, her best work to date being as actor and producer of 2001’s critically acclaimed sleeper-hit Donnie Darko.
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Barrymore has her first drink at 9, begins smoking pot at 10, and takes cocaine at 12. Her mom checks her into ASAP Family Treatment Center, a private drug and alcohol rehab hospital. She stays 12 days before leaving to film Far from Home. After 85 sober days, she does cocaine in a New York nightclub bathroom. She steals her mom's credit card and flies to L.A. Her mom hires private agents that force her back into ASAP.
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Barrymore entered into a short-lived marriage to actor Jeremy Thomas at age19, which lasted from March to May of 1994. She continued her outrageousbehavior in the early 1990s by posing nude, multiple tattoos and all, forspreads in Andy Warhol's Interview and in Playboy. She alsoexposed her breasts on TV to a shocked David Letterman at his LateNight show birthday celebration.
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