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    DREW BARRYMORE FINDING HOME

    Dec 01, 2021 5 minutes
    WORDS by DREW BARRYMORE

    It’s been two years since I decided to write a cookbook. I never thought that would ever happen. I think because way back in the 1990s, when I was at an impressionable age, all these lifestyle “gurus” seemed so perfect to me: “Follow me; do as I do.” I know well that isn’t me – I am messy and will be a student until the day I die.

    When I was a teenager the only thing I could see myself doing was making movies, so I started Flower Films at 19 and spent the next 15 years completely focused on that. We made a whole bunch of movies and had a whole lot of fun, although I probably stressed through it way more than I should have. Now, looking back, I see a young, invincible idiot who thought stress would never kill me and I would live forever.

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