Overview
- On the Oct. 24 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Barrymore said she was taken to a rehabilitation facility at 14 and treated for nearly two years.
- She called the experience the best thing that ever happened to her, describing it as revealing and healing yet hard as hell.
- Barrymore praised Mae Martin’s Wayward for its accuracy, saying the show’s tone felt true to what she experienced inside an institution.
- Martin said they entered treatment at 16 and noted the series is loosely inspired by a friend who spent two years in a troubled-teen program.
- Coverage cited Barrymore’s earlier accounts of an 18-month teen rehab and a 2023 post about Van Nuys Psychiatric Hospital, as Wayward streams on Netflix.