Drew Barrymore slams claims that she wished her mom was useless: 'How dare you set these phrases in my mouth'

• Drew Barrymore criticized tabloids over claims that she wished her mom was useless.
• On Monday, a number of publications misinterpreted an interview she gave to New York Journal.
• “How dare you set these phrases in my mouth,” Barrymore mentioned in an Instagram video.

Drew Barrymore has slammed information retailers who misinterpreted an interview she gave as suggesting that she wished her mom was useless.

On Monday, a number of publications ran quotes from an interview revealed by New York Journal by which Barrymore mentioned her difficult relationship along with her mom, Jaid Barrymore.

Barrymore mentioned she has discovered it tougher to course of her relationship dynamic along with her mother than different celebrities reminiscent of Jennette McCurdy and Brooke Shields, who’ve had related advanced relationships with their dad and mom and who’ve appeared on Barrymore’s discuss present to speak in regards to the topic.

“All their mothers are gone, and my mother’s not,” Barrymore mentioned. “And I am like, ‘Nicely, I haven’t got that luxurious.’ However I can’t wait. I do not wish to reside in a state the place I want somebody to be gone ahead of they’re meant to be so I can develop. I truly need her to be comfortable and thrive and be wholesome. However I’ve to fucking develop regardless of her being on this planet.”

After the quotes have been interpreted across the web as Barrymore wishing her mom was useless, the actor and discuss present host responded with a video posted to Instagram.

“I’ve by no means mentioned that I wanted my mom was useless. How dare you set these phrases in my mouth,” Barrymore mentioned within the video. “I’ve been weak and tried to determine a really troublesome painful relationship whereas admitting it’s troublesome to do whereas a mum or dad is alive.”

Barrymore went on to elucidate that her phrases have been misconstrued.

“And that for these of us who must determine that out in actual time can’t wait, as in they can not look forward to the time,” she mentioned. “Not that the mum or dad is useless. Do not twist my phrases round or ever say that I want my mom was useless. I’ve by no means mentioned that. I by no means would.”

“In actual fact, I am going on to say that I want that I by no means must reside in existence the place I would need that on somebody as a result of that’s sick,” Barrymore added, referring to a different quote within the interview by which she expressed remorse for even considering her mom’s dying.

Barrymore has had a troublesome relationship along with her mother since childhood, and although she emancipated from her dad and mom on the age of 14, the “Charlie’s Angels” actor nonetheless helps her mom financially.