Little Girl Lost

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While it's true Drew had wonderful, skilled and insightful professionals in her hospitalization and recovery, the sickening feeling you get in your stomach is when you helplessly realize that these are tools, life changing tools, but none the less tools. I particularly enjoyed some of the journals that she shared from rehab, and her changing perceptions of her father. Drew, as she says, will live the rest of her life on the brink of disaster, from minute to minute and hour to hour. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

No child, no matter who, should ever have to suffer the torment, pain, frustration, humiliation, bitterness, disappointment, abandonment and fear that this beautiful child and world class talent endured. T. the Extra-Terrestrial and quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses, going on to establish herself in mainly comic roles. His work includes books with Michael Richards, Dick Van Dyke, Valerie Bertinelli, Melissa Gilbert, Billy Dee Williams, Penny Marshall, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ann-Margret, Drew Barrymore, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Burns, Cliff Bleszinski, Dr. It is a difficult read also and offers remarkable parallels in places to Drew Barrymore but from another childhood star.

It is a sad story of a child whose life was marred by what no child should go through, but who overcame her self-destructive habits and proved those who said she was burned out at 13, so wrong. Read this as a teen and I should have taken it as a cautionary tale and learned and not repeated her mistakes. It's a heart breaking story of a real-life Hollywood child star whose life spirals out of control before barely making it through puberty.

I snapped up this book as soon as it came out in paperback and have read and re-read it more times than I can count. All in all I feel that this autobiographical account of what can happen to a young person when thrust into the spotlight is a great read. Drew Pinsky, Burt Reynolds, Richard Pryor, Louie Anderson, Belinda Carlisle, Sharon Rocha, and Elisabeth Kübler Ross.Did you know that when Elliott is trying to make Gertie believe “only kids can see” ET and she rolls her eyes and says “Gimmee a break,” that was all Drew? Even though I knew the outcome of this story I still was so invested in her journey through unhappiness and addiction.