Drew Barrymore calls out tabloids

Drew Barrymore called out tabloids that said she wished ill on her mother.

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00:00To all you tabloids out there, you have been with my life since I was 13 years old.

00:06Drew Barrymore is hitting back at tabloids that reported she wished her mother was dead.

00:10The actress was recently profiled in Vulture, during which she discussed her complex relationship

00:15with her mother, Jade Barrymore, whom she emancipated herself from when she was 14 years

00:19old. Quote, all their moms are gone and my mom's not, Drew told Vulture. And I'm like, well,

00:23I don't have that luxury, but I cannot wait. I don't want to live in a state where I wish

00:27someone to be gone sooner than they're meant to be so I can grow. I actually want her to

00:31be happy and thrive and be healthy, but I have to grow in spite of her being on this planet.

00:35However, some media outlets took her quote to mean that she wished her mother was dead.

00:39I have never said that I wish my mother was dead. How dare you put those words in my mouth?

00:45I have been vulnerable and tried to figure out a very difficult, painful relationship

00:52while admitting it is difficult to do while a parent is alive. And that for those of us

00:59who have to figure that out in real time, cannot wait as in they cannot wait for the time,

01:05not that the parent is dead. In the same Vulture article, Barrymore clarified her statement saying,

01:10quote, I dared to say it and I didn't feel good. I do care. I'll never not care. I don't know if

01:15I'll ever know how to fully guard, close off, not feel, build the wall up. Don't twist my words

01:20around or ever say that I wish my mother was dead. I have never said that. I never would.