From cleaning toilets and mental institution to Hollywood stardom! – Story Of The Day!

Drew Barrymore was eight years old when she had her first drink. By thirteen, she had already been through rehab. Not long after, she would attempt to take her own life and spend more than a year in a mental institution. Those facts alone would be enough to define most lives. Somehow, they became only the opening chapter of one of Hollywood’s most unlikely success stories.

Barrymore’s childhood began in front of a camera. At just eleven months old, she appeared in a dog food commercial, unknowingly continuing a family legacy that stretched back generations in Hollywood. Fame didn’t creep in gradually; it arrived almost immediately. By the time she was seven, she was a global sensation, charming audiences with her wide eyes and natural magnetism. A now-famous moment of her pouring Baileys over ice cream during a television appearance made her seem mischievous, confident, and far older than her years. An interview with Johnny Carson sealed the public’s affection, revealing a child who was funny, fearless, and disarmingly self-possessed.