Demi LovatoandDrew Barrymorewent through more as child stars than most deal with over the course of a lifetime.
Now they’re commiserating over their troubling early experiences with drugs and alcohol.
“How old were you when you were first given something?”
Drew Barrymore and Demi Lovato.Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty; Everett
And I thought she was so cool, and she would give weed to me and her son."
“It’s hard tonotblame someone else when you’re ten years old,” Lovato said.
That was my coping mechanism.
Demi Lovato on ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’.The Drew Barrymore Show/YouTube
I’m very accountable, I don’t blame other people."
The talk show host also said having children changed her perspective on her own adolescence.
“Having a 10 year old daughter now, I just, it’s unfathomable.
But that’s just how I grew up,” Barrymore said.
“I don’t remember feeling like there was any other way to be happy,” she recalled.
“I knew I couldn’t show that I was drinking even though I was.
It just made me rebel even more,” Stoner recalled.
Lovato added, “Finding drugs was easy.
That was the only way I knew how to escape.”
Barrymore hascalled herselfa “walking cautionary tale,” admitting to an alcohol addiction at only 13 years old.
Child Starultimately tries to uplift more than the addiction and survival stories bring the mood down.
“Obviously you want to make a great film, TV show or commercial,” Lovato told them.
“But what matters is your well-being and the other things in your life, like family and friends.
That’s what really matters.”
