Drew Barrymore Says Rehab at 14 Was 'Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me'

Drew Barrymore is looking back on her teen years with zero regrets. “I also was someone who got taken away and put in a place for two years,” Barrymore told Mae Martin on the Friday, October 24, episode of The Drew Barrymore Show regarding her experience as a teen in a drug rehab facility, adding that getting help was “the best thing that ever happened to me.” “I did not know that. I mean, I know that you were a wayward teen — as was I, and I was in rehab and stuff — but I didn’t know that you were at one of those places,” Martin, 38, responded. The star of Wayward, a movie centered around two