25 Things You Didn't Know About Drew Barrymore

Drew's paternal grandfather, John Barrymore, starred as Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde in the original 1920 film.

At age 15, Drew wrote a memoir titled Little Girl Lost. It's gone out of print multiple times. In early 2014, she released a photography book called Find It in Everything, and her collection of autobiographical essays, Wildflower, was released in October 2015.

In her book Little Girl Lost, Drew recounts the first time she ever got drunk; she was at a birthday party for Rob Lowe . . . and she was 9 years old. She also slow-danced with Rob's fellow Brat Pack member Emilio Estevez during the bash.

Drew's early struggles with drugs and alcohol are well documented, but not many people know that after her second rehab stint and a suicide attempt at age 14, Drew spent three months at the home of rock musician David Crosby and his wife, who are both survivors of alcohol and drug abuse. In an interview with People magazine in 1990, the musician said of Drew's stay, "I didn't want to see her go down the tubes. She needed to be around some people that were committed to sobriety."

Corey accompanied Drew on the red carpet at the Academy Awards in 1989.

Drew turned down the role of Nomi Malone in 1995's Showgirls (the part ultimately went to Elizabeth Berkley, and the film is widely considered a cult classic). The following year, Drew was offered the lead role of Sidney Prescott in Scream but instead chose to play teenager Casey Becker, who is famously killed off in the first 10 minutes of the movie.

When she was 19, Drew posed for the January 1995 issue of Playboy. Her godfather, Steven Spielberg, later sent her the shots with clothes photoshopped on for her 20th birthday, along with a note reading, "Cover yourself up."

Drew's former father-in-law, Ari Kopelman, used to be the CEO of Chanel. Drew wears the brand regularly and even wed her ex-husband Will Kopelman in a custom-made Chanel gown.

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It's no secret that Drew and her mother, Jaid, have had their ups and downs — Drew emancipated herself from Jaid when she was 15 and recently revealed to Oprah Winfrey that her mother was not invited to her 2012 wedding to Will Kopelman — but things got especially rocky for the mother-daughter duo in 1995, when Jaid began selling her daughter's baby clothing at auction on eBay.

Drew formed the production company Flower Films with her friend Nancy Juvonen in 1997 and two years later produced her hit romantic comedy Never Been Kissed. Flower Films went on to spearhead production on Charlie's Angels, 50 First Dates, and the cult film Donnie Darko!

Drew's voice has been featured in over 10 episodes of Family Guy as Brian Griffin's ditzy girlfriend Jillian. In 1999, Drew provided the voiceover for Olive, the Other Reindeer, a holiday TV movie about a dog named Olive that wants to be a reindeer. She went on to give the same name to her daughter, Olive Barrymore Kopelman, in September 2012.

Drew's close friend and business partner Nancy Juvonen married Jimmy Fallon in 2007 after Drew set them up on the set of their baseball comedy Fever Pitch.

In 1998, Drew and her then-boyfriend, Tom Green, were woken up in the middle of the night by her adopted yellow lab, Flossie — a fire had started in their LA home, and Drew's dog "barked and literally banged on the bedroom door" in an effort to wake them up. After calling 911 and escaping from the home, Drew told a group of waiting reporters, "Thank God for Flossie!"

Flossie died in 2010 at the age of 16, and to mourn her "first girl," Drew traveled to India and scattered some of the dog's ashes at Gandhi’s home in New Delhi, near a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas, and next to the Ganges River. Drew has called her love for Flossie "one of the best gifts" she's ever known.

In 2010, Drew took home the award for best actress in a miniseries or television film for her role as Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie") in the HBO film Grey Gardens — but she received her first Golden Globe nomination well before then. Drew was up for the best supporting actress award in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences, in which she starred as a young girl divorcing her parents. Talk about foreshadowing.

In a 2003 interview with Contact Music, Drew said, "Do I like women sexually? Yeah, I do. Totally. I have always considered myself bisexual." In another interview the following year, she revealed that she "used to go with lots of women" when she was young — she is also rumored to have had a relationship with magazine editor Jane Pratt in the mid-'90s.

Drew confessed her love for roller coasters to Oprah Winfrey, saying, "I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop." Her favorite one is the Big Shot in Las Vegas, which catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower and then plummets back down. Drew added, "I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating."