What a life Drew Barrymore has led. At age 7 she was the cutie who stole the show and won hearts in the movie, E.T. By age 13 she was an alcoholic, her career in ruins. Today she is not only a sought after actor, she's a fully fledged film maker . In this candid and often very funny interview from 2001, Drew tells Peter Overton how she survived her troubled teens to become a Hollywood mogul.

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