Drew Barrymore never misses a day of work. Now enjoying a fulfilling career directing The Drew Barrymore Show, when the child star found herself emancipated from her mother Jade Barrymore at the age of 14, she scrambled to pay the bills.
Noting that a friend worked at a coffee shop in the Valley, the actress said in her 2015 memoir, Wildflower, that because she didn’t have a driver’s license, she had to find a nearby rental.
“It was the early 1990s, and coffeehouses were where everyone hung out,” she recounts working at L.A. hotspot The Living Room. “People poured into the streets every night,” she continued, unfortunately. “I wasn’t good at my job. I wasn’t really good at anything. There were only two things I did: act and have wild life experiences.”
In her book, she teas about one tense experience.
“My boss, who hired me with the novel idea of putting a washed-up former child star behind the counter, was patient with my learning curve, but I could tell he was also irritated with me,” she wrote, revealing how he walked in while she was washing the dishes and said, “very sharply and indignantly: ‘Don’t use the polishing side of the brush! All the pastry cases are so scratched and cloudy you can’t see what’s inside!'”
