Drew Barrymore Responds To Claims She ‘Cannot Wait’ For Her Mum To Die

Drew Barrymore has hit back at tabloids for quoting her saying she "cannot wait" for her mum to die in an interview. 

“To all you tabloids out there, you have been f**king with my life since I was 13 years old. I have never said that I wished my mother was dead," she said furiously in an Instagram video.

“How dare you put those words in my mouth. I have been vulnerable and tried to figure out a very difficult, painful relationship while admitting it is difficult to do while a parent is alive and that, for those of us who have to figure that out in real time cannot wait... as in they cannot wait for the time, not that the parent is dead.”

“Don’t twist my words around or ever say that I wish my mother was dead,” she continued. “I have never said that. I never would. In fact, I go on to say that I wish that I never have to live an existence where I would wish that on someone, because that is sick.”

She continued to get candid about her childhood with her mother. The following was what was said in the interview.

“All their mums are gone, and my mum’s not. And I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t have that luxury.’ But I cannot wait."

“I don’t want to live in a state where I wish someone to be gone sooner than they’re meant to be so I can grow. I actually want her to be happy and thrive and be healthy. But I have to f***ing grow in spite of her being on this planet.”

She also shared remorse about her harsh comments, later in the interview.

“I dared to say it, and I didn’t feel good. I do care. I’ll never not care. I don’t know if I’ve ever known how to fully guard, close off, not feel, build the wall up.”

She has previously been open about growing up with Jaid (her mother), who was her manager taking her to Hollywood parties as a child.

By the age of 12, Drew had already been to rehab for drug and alcohol abuse, and at 13, her mother put her in a psychiatric ward.

“I think she created a monster, and she didn’t know what to do with the monster."

At the age of 14, she was emancipated from her parents. She was able to forgive her father, John before his death in 2004, but has never fully forgiven her mother. She says she doesn't "blame" her for the challenges in her life.

“I choose very consciously not to see my life as things that have been done to me. I want to see it as the things I did and chose to do. I’m not attracted to people who lay blame on others. I don’t find it sexy.”

“I can’t turn my back on the person who gave me my life. I can’t do it. It would hurt me so much. I would find it so cruel. But there are times where I’ve realised that our chemistry and behaviour will drum up a feeling in me where I have to say, ‘OK, I need a break again.’”