Drew Barrymore says she 'never' wished her mom ‘was dead,' clarifies comments

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Drew Barrymore is clarifying comments she made in a recent interview about her relationship with her estranged mother, Jaid Barrymore. "You know what, to all you tabloids out there, you have been f--king with my life since I was 13 years old," Barrymore said in an Instagram video on Monday. "I have never said that I wished my mother was dead.

How dare you put those words in my mouth." "I have been vulnerable, and tried to figure out a very difficult, painful relationship, while admitting it is difficult to do while a parent is alive, and that for those of us that have to figure that out in real-time, cannot wait as in they cannot wait for the time.

Not that the parent is dead." "Don't twist my words around or ever say that I wish my mother was dead. I have never said that.

I never would." She added, "In fact, I go on to say that I wish that I never have to live an existence where I would wish that on someone because that is sick." Barrymore, 48, became emancipated from her mother at the age of 14 and struck out to live on her own.The actress previously told Jeannette McCurdy, who titled her own memoir "I'm Glad my Mom Died," she couldn't speak all of her truths because "certain people are alive." The actress said she doesn't have the luxury of her mother being gone in the same way as McCurdy and Brooke Shields, whom she's also interviewed. "All their moms are gone, and my mom’s not," Barrymore told Vulture. "And I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t have that luxury.’But I cannot wait.