Before Drew Barrymore became a celebrated talk-show host in 2020 and after she became a child star with the success of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982, she went through a serious downtime in her life and career. "When I was 14, I got emancipated," she said when she was inducted into the Broadcasting+Cable Hall of Fame Tuesday, September 30 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in NYC.

"I had just come out of an institution, not to be heavy, like that's where I was at. I'm like kicking it at my new apartment and I'm like 'What the [expletive] am I doing?' I'm scared [expletive], I don't have a job. I've gone from the life that I knew, and they don't want to have me back for a while, and I need to respect that. I never screwed up at work, but I screwed up in my life, so I'm like 'how am I going t

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