Drew Barrymore came forward to reveal the details regarding the disturbing experience of spending almost 18 months in a psychiatric ward when she was merely a teenager.
In a recent interview on The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM Monday Drew narrated the troubles of being a young individual in the spotlight
She said: “I was going to clubs and not going to school and stealing my mom’s car and, you know, I was out of control.”
“So, you know, sometimes it was as humorous as that and sometimes I was just so angry that I would go off and then I’d get thrown in ‘the thing.'”
Drew explained that “the thing” intended to be a “full psychiatric ward” where she was taken in for around 18 months.
She further said: “I used to laugh at those like Malibu 30-day places. Malibu was sort of the opposite of the experience I had,” Drew recounted.
“I was in a place for a year and a half called Van Nuys Psychiatric. You couldn’t mess around in there and if you did, you would get thrown either in a padded room or get put in stretcher restraints, and tied up,”
