15 things you might not have known about Drew Barrymore

Her mother, Jaid Barrymore, acted occasionally while her father, John Drew Barrymore, acted more frequently – appearing on episodes of "The Wild West," "Rawhide" and "Gunsmoke."

According to Biography.com, Barrymore's grandfather, John, was also a notable actor as well .

Barrymore's first acting job was for a dog food commercial when she was less than a year old.

Barrymore got her acting break by starring in Steven Spielberg's 1982 movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."

During an appearance on Dax Shepard's podcast "Armchair Expert," Barrymore said the director had "single-handedly changed [her] life."

"He was also someone who I didn't realize until I was older was also very fatherly," she said. "He calls me his first kid… He was appalled by me wearing red lipstick or when I did 'Playboy.'"

She hosted "Saturday Night Live" in 1982 when she was just 7 years old. The appearance on NBC's sketch show came a few months after the premiere of "E.T."

Barrymore went on to host "SNL" another five times in her career.

Barrymore was admitted into a Los Angeles psychiatric facility when she was 13 years old. She lived there for 18 months.

"I was a real wild child, and I just got so out of control that no one knew what to do with me," Barrymore said in the segment taped for her talk show in 2021. "My mom called a friend because her daughter was out of control [too] and they drove me here in the middle of the night."

As previously reported by Insider, Barrymore recently returned to the institution for the season two premiere of "The Drew Barrymore Show."

Barrymore wrote about the process of "divorcing" her mother in her memoir "Wildflower."

"When I was 14, I was emancipated by the courts," Barrymore said. "It's no secret that I had to part ways from my mother because we had driven our relationship into the ground. She had lost credibility as a mother by taking me to Studio 54 (so wrong, but so fun) instead of school. And I was out of control due to working since I was 11 months old and what that had done to my childhood, which made me grow up too fast."

Barrymore was featured on the cover of Playboy Magazine in January 1995.

"It was like my own personal adventure," Barrymore told the HFPA at the time when asked about posing nude. "I totally had a great time with it and I think I'm very comfortable in my skin and to me, the human body is a really beautiful thing."

Barrymore is one of many celebrities who has been open about being attracted to more than one gender.

In an interview with Contact Magazine, Barrymore shared: "Do I like women sexually? Yeah, I do. Totally. I have always considered myself bisexual... I love a woman's body. I think a woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful."

According to CBS News, Barrymore came in eighth place among a list of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood that year, earning $1o-12 million dollars per movie.

Barrymore married Jeremy Thomas in 1994 and ended their marriage after two months.

Barrymore and Tom Green married in 2001 but Green filed for divorce that December, according to The Sun.

In 2012, Barrymore married Will Kopelman and divorced in 2016. They now share custody of their two daughters, Olive and Frankie Barrymore Kopelman.

Barrymore is the godmother of Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of the late Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.

But as of the mid-00s, Barrymore and Love weren't very close anymore. According to Popsugar, Barrymore spoke about their friendship in 2007.

"Courtney and I have not seen each other in a while, so I haven't had the pleasure of being in Frances's life for a few years," Barrymore said. "That's a great loss for me, and I hope to reconnect with her."

Flower Films is a production company, founded by Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen, in 1995 according to the company's LinkedIn page.

Their company has produced many of Barrymore's own hit movies, including "Never Been Kissed," "Charlie's Angels," and "50 First Dates."

Flower Films is also currently producing Barrymore's talk show, "The Drew Barrymore Show."

Barrymore made her directorial debut in 2009 for "Whip It," a movie about a roller derby team in a small Texas town. Barrymore herself acted in the movie, alongside Elliot Page and Kristen Wiig.

"I've been waiting to make this film my whole life and to tell this story," Barrymore told CNN at the time.

A few years ago, there were two separate artists (SZA and Bryce Vine) who named songs after Barrymore.

At a 2018 Ulta event, Barrymore spoke with Insider about how it felt to have a SZA song with her name in its title. The single appeared on SZA's debut album, "Ctrl."

"I love her so much. I am so in awe of her," Barrymore told Insider. "I love how her star has just rioted through the sky. She's so deserving of it, and I have to say, I am obsessed with that song. I'm just so honored to be associated with her. I think she's such a badass."

SZA has said the song was about being at a house party with enviable girls.

"I started thinking about every movie that you see Drew in," SZA told USA Today. "All her roles are this amazing, kind girl who is misunderstood but just wants to be loved."