Drew Barrymore has revealed she will tell her daughter about her addiction past, when the time is right.
The 37-year-old actress, who became a mum for the first time last year, vowed to chat show host Oprah Winfrey this week that her daughter Olive would be told the truth about her own troubled upbringing.
“I will absolutely instill in her that you cannot be ashamed of the journey that it took, you know, to get where you are if you are proud of yourself,” Drew revealed, fighting back tears.
“But I will also try to instill in her that I did not have guidance and that is why I lived my life that way. And although I am proud of it and I don’t want to spend the rest of my life regretting it, there is no option for her to take that path because she has guidance.”
In the emotionally-charged interview, the Charlie’s Angels star announced she was determined to give daughter Olive the stable childhood she’d never had herself.
“I will be there at 3pm in the school line waiting to pick her up. That is first and foremost. I think that as a kid that’s what I craved the most… just believing that that was going to be there – (my mother) being there in that school line.”
Drew shot to fame in the Spielberg classic ET at the tender age of four, and was plagued by drug and alcohol addiction for much of her youth.
In the interview with Oprah, which airs in the U.S. on Sunday, the former child star also reveals how she decided against inviting her mother to her wedding to Will Kopelman last year.
“[My mother] was not there, which was very hard. We both discussed it and thought it would be best for her not to come.”
