123 – Wildflower: Drew Barrymore's Book of Autobiographical Essays - How Do You Drew

Hello and welcome to How Do You Drew? This is a Drew Barrymore podcast brought to you by the fans, friends and historians behind the Druseum. We're drawing on over 25 years of Druby expertise to dive into all aspects of Drews world, from her personal life to her professional career. Thanks to our sponsor and friends at Positive Medium. I'm Anne. And I'm Ashley, and this week we are discussing Wildflower Drew's 2015 book, Woo Hoo, Finally. I'm so excited. This is this is, this is the start of something big and we'll get into that in a minute.

But like, this is exciting. Yay. Yeah. OK, so at the very top, we gotta just do a little memorial thing. So let's get into that first. Oh, so as of this recording yesterday, Catherine O'Hara passed away. So sad. Like I'm like, sad. I was like shocked and like sad and I was like, that doesn't feel real. Totally, I know. And it's, it's amazing, like how many people. Oh my God, the Internet is devastated. The Internet is devastated. Like Rob Reiner was like, you know, had this big impact, but like for a very specific type of people who would know who Rob Reiner is and then now like Catherine O'Hara, it's big.

It's big and it's shocking and it's really, really sad. It doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel right. She's just been so ever present, like our entire lives for sure, totally generations before us too. She's. Amazing, you know, You know, Home Alone is like one of my all time favorite movies. And yeah, it like, I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of embarrassed. It took me a minute. I was like, oh I feel like we should post something, but what connucion would I make, you know? I did not think of it immediately either.

So guys, they did home fries. Together. I can't believe I'm admitting on the mic that I forgot, you know what? But home fries. I love Catherine O'Hara in that movie. She is so, like, evil and twisted and hilarious. Like, she's so, so, so funny. Of course, she's always funny. And I've always loved her performance in it. So yeah, once, once I like it hit me. I was like, Oh my gosh, it just made me like, extra. And you know, of course, everyone's like Home Alone. Beetlejuice, like the big ones, right?

But I'm like, oh, not that many people are mentioning home fries and it's like a really cool special performance, so. I mean, I don't know how many credits she has, but she's one of those people that's like done so much work that like, yeah, they're gonna people be people like us who are like, what about home fries? And there's gonna be like 100 other movies probably that Like, what about this? I know anyway. I think. Maybe we'll get to home fries. Maybe this year. We did cover it over on our friends makeover montage, yeah, on their podcast like a few years ago, like 3 years ago.

But yeah, we got to get to it over here. So if you guys are interested, let it drop us a line and maybe we'll bump that up in the queue. Yeah. It's we always like, once we find some inspiration or reason to cover something, we get really excited about it. So like, clearly us not having that recollection is like, wait, that's sad. Yeah. But anyway, the icon that that person is. Rest in peace, Catherine. Yeah, gosh darn it. Yeah, it sucks, but you know, we age, other people age, time is melting like a Dolly clock, all those things.

True. All right, let's talk about some positives. All right. I love, love. Let's talk about things that Drew's proclaimed her love for recently. OK, True Love's trivia night. That's not surprising. No, she loves a badminton. OK. Dairy. OK. Mushroom caps. Hold on, let me go back to dairy for a second. Where was it that she said she like, drove by some cows and she said, I hope you're dairy? Yes. I think it's from US 1997, but I definitely remember copying that. Yeah. And. Well, and I told, I told my partner he uses it sometimes.

I'd be so funny. But anyway, dairy. I also love dairy. OK. And on the other side, she also loves Daisy. No, not just dairy, but also Daisy, the name which we know. Yes, totally. But she also loves when people call her Brew Bear cute. She loves Katie Segal. Awesome. Comfy. Cozy. 100%. A knee high look. OK, immediately thinking of her first appearance in Mad Love. Yeah, and then finally, Drew loves nature. No way. No way, right? This is such a fun like little segment. I love. I adore it guys. We love, love.

Yeah, it definitely speaks to that part of our brains that loves tidbits galore. Yes, because they're like little ones that like, I don't know, Drew also she proclaims love for things a lot and it's like a funny. I think she would probably think this segment was funny in a way, you know? Like, sure, I agree. We mean it in all of the love in the world. Should we get into our mailbag? Let's do it. You've got mail. OK, we have two today. The first one is from our friend Marcus, who runs the Instagram account Charlie's Three Sexy Sleuths.

And he was trying to leave this on our YouTube for our last episode, the one about our favorite red carpet looks. Yeah. And then because YouTube is a glitchy as hell, it went from. He could see it private while he was like viewing it. What? I know I'm telling you guys, I'm sorry for those of you who listen to us on YouTube, we're trying to figure it out. But anyway, so this is what he was going to leave as a comment and he sent it to us. OK, so Marcus said go to the episode page on Druziam website and click through the photos as they discuss the gowns.

So worth it. You 2 make me so happy with your organizational talents. Oh, I love that already. Yeah, let me continue as I was hoping the photos on the episode page were in order as you discussed so I could click along. And of course they because y'all are the best. Of course they are. Of course that's us. You. Know I, I love this comment so much because it's like it shows like the work thing that you do to like get that part like ready and somebody to appreciate it because I'm always imagining like that people are not doing that because I listen like on the go if I'm listening to a podcast.

So grateful for people who like go and like enjoy the visuals. Like, it's absolutely, it's part of the heart behind this whole thing. I'm glad it's being appreciated. Also, a really quick side note I wanted to tell you about him is that we were talking about newspapers.com, which has become my new, yeah, incredible source for stuff. Thank you again, Lindsey Blake. And he was telling me that there's this, like, Hawaiian newspaper clipping of Jacqueline Smith from the last season of Charlie's Angels, that he's like, he lost it.

He hasn't seen it in 20 years. And I found it on there, and it was so gratifying. Yeah, it's not cool. So fun and cool, I love that kind of stuff. I'm so excited to help. That's rad. Yes. So our other in our meal bag, we also have a comment on Spotify on our last episode and this is from the person behind the Alyssa Milano Museum, which we mentioned in our last episode and we got a comment from them. Oh, very cool. So they said. Hello, Anne and Ashley. I've been following you for years. As a fan of Alyssa Milano, I must say you're doing an admirable job with your podcast.

I'm improving my English and learning all about Drew Barrymore. That's so cool. Yeah, he said. I laugh along with you when I hear you laugh constantly. I was like, I just laughed right now for no reason, just hearing him mention it, he said. I'm listening every day right now because I wanna catch up on the episodes. Keep it up. Greetings from Paris, France. So cool, that's so. Cool. And I don't think I I think maybe I didn't catch the line in the last episode where you were saying Alyssa Milano's like big overseas.

I don't think I caught like, oh, this gentleman's from France. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's so fun. I love how like with the Charlie's Angels account with Alyssa Milano, like, they're not like, I mean, obviously Charlie's Angels has a connection to Drew, but he's also focusing on the old TV show. Like, it's like we're tangentally sort of connected, but like, because we all do similar work. There's also that Sharon Tate Instagram account that I've become friendly with and like we just have this kind of like kindred spirit thing going on and I just love making these friendships with people.

Yeah. And like the style of collecting too. It's like what, like what you're doing and how how you're what you're doing with the legacy, right? Or like our feeling about that. Yeah. So cool. I love these both of these comments and they're both from like, like you said, like both people who have the kinship with us. So thank you. Thanks guys. Yeah, OK. So, so let's go over to our kind comments corner. So. Sweet. Yeah. Let's just keep the love fest going. We're so like, hippy dippy over here today.

Here we are. OK. This is actress Jessica Williams on the Drew Barrymore Show. I wasn't familiar with her before, but she was so lovely. She's from the a show called Shrinking. Have you watched it? I have not watched that and I was trying to figure out what I knew her from because I recognized her and she was great on whatever I watched her on and I was like, oh her. Like I'd never seen her interviewed. Yeah, she has a really nice energy. Yeah, she really does. So this was just like, they're in the middle of sort of a conversation.

And Drew said something about like how being an entertainer doesn't feel like very important, you know, like, or meaningful in the world. And then Jessica just went off on this like incredibly kind little kind comment corner. It's it's so lovely. I, I love it. OK, so let's let's listen to this. I'm a. Prior. But you, you have your work. You've affected my life profoundly. I feel like I experienced you at the exact right age for the way that you have deposited into me and my generation in a really cool way.

Like with the Charlie's Angels. Like you were the Angel that I wanted to do. Yeah, like seriously like. And your phases, like what you've been through, like you've always been quite candid about your rebellious phases and what you've been through and your childhood, I feel like I've always been aware of that. If you're a millennial, we got to experience you as this girl who never quite fit in. You were still quirky, even though you're like white, you were white, but you were still like a girl that somehow felt accessible from the way you speak, to the way you dress and to how funny you are and full of heart.

So I just want to thank you for that. I'm so proud of you and what you have done and how comfortable you make people feel. Good. So it's so beautiful and the whole time, like they're both like tears, right? Like streaming down their faces. It's really kind, but it's also like, it's that also speaks to exactly like why we're doing what we're doing. I know we're both going to cry now, like. It's like my, I know. It's like in my throat, I'm like, thank you, Jessica Williams. Thank you for saying that so beautifully.

I love the eloquence behind everything, she said. That was so magnanimous. It was. It actually was magnanimous, truly. And I think like it. I mean, obviously it doesn't matter how many times somebody says something like that to Drew. I think to her, it always feels like shocking and fresh and new. Like, she's not jaded. She's not like, yeah, everyone tells me I'm the best, you know? And I think she needed to hear that like, right. She looked very, very shocked and touched. Right. Like, she knows that people know her.

Yeah. But I think she thinks she's just, like, in the background. She's just that old piece of furniture. Yeah. That's literally what she thinks she doesn't realize. Like, Well, it's also like the generation of women who are, like, becoming professionals right now. And like, can you know, like us, we're like, oh, we can talk about it now. Yeah. We figured out how to talk. About it, we have a platform, yeah. But anyway, that was that was beautiful, beautiful moment in the kind comments corner. All right, another segment at the top, guys, there's a lot at the top.

I love it. All right, so let's get into this week in Drew History. This is a biggie. What a day Oh my God, February 3rd, 2004. Can you go back there in your mind? Because I can. Because we were there, I. Can and that's 22 years ago. I'm just going to say it out. Loud OK, so not only did Drew get her long time coming, well deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and we had that ceremony, there was also the 51st States premiere that night. And I am feeling very certain about this. In between those two things, I believe she filmed Ellen.

It was the first time she went on that show because she has the same hair, the same makeup, the same jewelry. And Nancy Chavona makes a little appearance, like off to the side, and she's wearing the same jacket that she was wearing at the star ceremony. So like it has to be even though they say that was a couple weeks ago because it aired like a couple weeks later. God, we're so like you're. We both are. So like, we know how TV is done now and like, we've also like we noticed weird things on the Drew Barrymore Show that they do that we won't get into right now.

Lately. But like they had to do that. I guess they have to line up the guests for future episodes which is so weird to think about. They have to pretend. I guess. Yeah, it's pretending. Anyway, that is a fun little part to like notice because the makeup is exactly the same. Yes, makeup is exactly the same. Yeah, her lashes. The hair is exactly the same the. The Ring. Everything. Yeah, it's, it's too much exact like, everything about like the wave of her hair that I'd be shocked if it was on the same day.

So yeah, she was busy this day, February 3rd, 2004. Well, link to the Ellen episode. There's a couple clips of it on YouTube and the whole cast of 51st dates went on well, like not the whole cast, but several people. So that was fun. But yes, as I said before, we were there at the Walk of Fame star ceremony and the 51st dates premiere off to the sideline being like delegated as little fans. So it's just before we had the what does she say we have all unlimited access or? Which we don't, guys. We don't.

But we could go on and on about like how exciting those were. We actually have our our episode 41 is all about her star and like her, the family history of getting the stars. And it's actually a pretty cool episode from what I remember. And we do tell her like first hand account of being there that day, which was so, so, so special. So go listen to that if you want to know more about that day. But she was beautiful. It was incredibly special. I'm still so like happy that we got to be right there.

Yeah, and then the 51st dates premiere, we almost got to go into the regular theater, but we were with a group of like 4 people. So Chris Miller, of course, saw us and he's like, Oh my gosh, come on in. And then he could only get like a couple tickets, I think, right? Yeah, it was like, I think he could only get 2 instead of four. Yeah, or something. Like that. So he ended up somehow getting there was like an overflow theater across the street also still showing the movie, and he was able to get all of us into that.

So we got to see it like like 10 days before it came out. Yeah, it's cool. It is really cool. It's so surreal. Like anyway Drew, make some more movies so we can go to more premieres. I remember the concessions being free like. We were we. Were balling, Yeah. And we, we're gonna be talking about 51st dates really soon, you guys. Yes, we are. Oh my God, there's so much weird loveliness morning up right here. I mean, how could it not? We're like also almost to Drew's birthday like. There's a lot she got a like a star on the Walk of Fame for her birthday in 2004.

Essentially. But anyway, that was a really exciting day. Like, we got to spend so much of it seeing her, which is so cool. It's probably over, like, the span of like, several hours, and we got to see her once and then see her again. Like, have we ever had that happen before? Anything else like that? Super unique. Yeah. So anyway, special day, special moment in our history as well as Drew. 'S history. That's right. All right, so there's a little bit more at the top because Drew's busy, which is fun, right?

We love it. All right, so let's get into what's new with Drew. Here we go with the news, everybody. OK, it's already been like weeks because it's just like with the way our recording schedule has worked out. But in case you guys missed it, there was another virtual Charlie's Angels reunion with Drew Cameron, Lucy and Demi Moore. And they did the leg zoom thing like they did last year. Last year they were talking about Demi in the substance. And this year, and this is for Elle magazine, they were doing it to celebrate Lucy's success with her film Rosemead.

And I was kind of thinking about it. I I wonder if this was sort of to help, like maybe push for an off. Nomination for Lucy I wonder if. It was actually she didn't get but. I loved hearing them like rain praise on her. It really makes me want to see. This. Yeah, me too. I didn't realize like Rosemead, it's, it's the city in Saint Gaber. Yeah, she she mentions in it that they like had a couple days where they filmed like in, in Rosemead. But anyway, it's really lovely to hear those like 4 women's talk to each other because they just are so like they love each other so much and it's like it's really sweet so.

I also noticed Drew posted a video recently the one of Douglas running around her bedroom. Yeah, she had like a picture of the angels in the Swiss Miss costumes like on one of her tables. I know my eye caught it. I'm like I love it. And the Lucy has like 1 of their I think it's one of the TV. Guide cover or like it's either TV Guide or some other like photo shoot that was used a million times with like, red background. Yeah, yeah, I love that. And in this one, you can like see it sort of blurry in the background, but again, it's so recognizable.

If you know, you know. Yeah. Yeah, OK. And then a bunch of episodes of Hollywood Squares. Oh my gosh, yeah. So episodes five through 10 have come out since we last recorded. Crazy. We recorded really early last time, I guess. We did kind of late this time. Yeah. Lots of fun. Looks. One I do not care for. I bet you can't guess which one, Anne.

I haven't even watched those like most recent episodes yet, so I haven't seen the look until like seeing this little picture, the hair because you wrote that it reminds you of her hair in 2001, but it actually kind of reminds me of her hair at like AI think it's like the Confessions of a dangerous Mind premiere when her hair is like longer. Oh, you know what I think it is? I think it's enough confessions exactly like I think. It's first. States. It's a 51st states somewhere in Europe or something.

Yeah, that's what it looks like to me. It's like she's also wearing black and white at that, I think anyway. Remember, for those of you who don't know what the hell we're talking about, So I really don't like it when Jeru's hair, it almost looks like it's like pushed back and blow dried and sprayed. So it's like, yeah, back. I don't know how to explain it. And I like every once in awhile she pulls that hairstyle out and I just don't like it. So I had to laugh about it in our notes. And also the pic, the screenshot you pulled of it is like she looks a little bit like she got hit with like a a fan really quickly.

It's great. But anyway, generally of like very lovely looks every time. And so I'm like laughing so hard every time I watch the show. It's so funny. It's so good. I there, there. It's it's just the perfect like little and they're like short. It's like a perfect little like burst of like happiness and like, yeah, they're, they're. Little jabs at each other in a really fun. Way, Yeah. Did you catch that very sweet moment? So Arsenio Hall was on, which is kind of cool. He's been on a few of them. And on the first one, Drew like shouted him out and said how she used to do his show and she was so happy to be there with him.

And I feel like her appearance is on his show because there's several. They've only like kind of recently started showing up on YouTube just sort of randomly. So I feel like they're kind of new to me in a way, even though they're from like 909293. There was definitely one that we saw in the last like year or so that was like brand new to us, right? Yeah. Was it like the 92 or something? The 91 There's a lot, but yeah, I just thought we love a little reunion yeah, we just thought that was really sweet and to.

Call it out, it's. Like he always seemed to be like looking out for her. I guess I would say on those appearances, I mean the timing of them makes a lot of sense, even 92, but. Yeah, totally. Yeah, it was a it was a sweet moment for sure. See, I love that you noted Douglas, cuz I, I was, I like Douglas has just been like roaming around the set this season and you can just see him like they'll just like do a wide shot of like the contestants and Hollywood Squares. And he's just like in the middle, just like and you can see like him and his reflection cuz it's like a shiny like floor.

It's so cute. And I was like, I feel like you've said before, like people who TuneIn and are not familiar because probably most people are not familiar or like why is there a dog just like walking? Around. I'm sure it's confusing, but we love it. Love it so much. It's so cute. Like, yeah, we're gonna say more about Douglas momentarily. Yeah, I kind of planned that that way. Do you want to go over the bonus round facts about Yeah, the the possibly true, possibly false facts? Let's hear it. The first one was Drew has a sneaker line called Just Drew It.

I feel like that'd be copyright infringement anyway. Yeah, totally OK. Her go to karaoke song is Paul Revere by the Beastie Boys. I it's true and I feel and I was like, I bet that's true. Like, I don't know if I knew that. Oh, she said it many times. It's even on our drew details. Oh, cool. On our website for sure. Yeah, cool. OK, she hates garlic. True. They got you. But you know what's funny? She used to say that she was allergic to it when she was in like in the 90s. And then on her show, she she kind of doesn't want to come out and say it, but there was a chef not that long ago who was like, I made it for without garlic for you.

And she was kind of like, oh, thank you. So it's like a secret. Interesting. I'm a surprise because she's such a like, she loves so much food stuff. And I was like, could that be true? Because I know there's a couple things she used to say she hated but like now she likes. Yeah, like ice. Cream, chocolate, I don't know, just anyway. So she does hate garlic, yeah. What's next? She owns the actual ET that was used in the movie. It's a good one though. That's a cute one. Yeah, she's probably like, I wish I did.

Right. OK, Drew once threw her cheating ex's stuff in his car and let the car roll down the driveway. This is true. So I haven't seen the two recent episodes. I know she talked about some kind of scandalous thing, but she like. Yep. Well, I also. Feel like maybe at one point she said she spray painted the car. I can't remember but like. I thought it was like something else. I didn't know it was roll down the driveway. Yeah, but we don't know who this is. Like, my gut tells me it's Jamie Walters, but based on what we know of their breakup, like there's no evidence that it's him.

I don't know why I think it is. Maybe she's because she's told the story on her show like multiple times throughout the years. So maybe at some point there was some little detail that I was like, huh, I'd be Jamie. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Jamie because they like had a house together, right. So like that's kind of like a plausible connection. I don't know. I also. At one point might have thought it was Luke like when they were like kind of together, but maybe they kind of weren't. But who knows what was going on.

But interesting. To imagine her doing it, I could almost imagine it more like in the era of Jamie Walters like as far as like the letting herself like go that far. I agreed, agreed, but. It's that's fun. I like it. OK, what's the last one? OK. And I thought this was so perfect. Like, when you think about our last episode. Yeah. Drew once walked the red carpet in a dress she'd made entirely out of duct tape. That. One's a stretch, guys. It is, but also like, what if we had talked about it and then it was, you know, like what if that was a thing that we were like, we love this look.

That's that's so funny. So that's our Hollywood Squares wrap up. If you guys wanna watch the episodes, they're all available on Paramount Plus. They don't disappear in a week like the Drew Barrymore Show episodes do. But I did notice Season 1 is gone. It was up there forever and now it's gone. No. Good thing I take all these screenshots when I'm watching it. Right, right. That's that's good. That's the archivist in you working. Absolutely. Like it's going to go away. Like everything goes away. OK, a little bit more new.

As I said, we were going to mention Douglas. So Douglas has his own Instagram account now at Douglas Barrymore. So funny inspired this I. Don't know but I love it so much like I'm you. Want to find the bio? Yeah, it says. I'm Douglas Barrymore. Drew Barrymore is my mom, Co host of the Drew Barrymore Show. I'm almost 16, but age is just a number.

It's so cute in the little profile picture of him and the like. Cowboy get up. It's adorable. It's so cute, Douglas. I can't wait to like rain all of my likes onto your page. Yeah. Anything to get like a little more drew content in a different like lens is so fun. Right, Yay Douglas. We can't wait to see more Douglas content. OK, last thing before we get into our lovely weekly topic. Yes. Final thing is that those new MSC Cruises commercials are officially out. There are three. They have titles.

One is karaoke, one is that's funny and the last is cabana and Spritz. So we will link to those. They're exactly what you guys expect them. To be right, they are. They are cheesy. Drew's adorable. I actually had, like, a stress dream about being on a cruise this morning as I was, like, about to wake up. That's so funny. I forgot. Yeah. And I was definitely like, why am I about to jump? Off like Drew in 1984. You're about to jump right off that cruise, which she talks about in the book that we'll be getting into after this break.

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OK, so you guys were getting into Drew Barrymore's 2015 book Wildflower. This is just the beginning of something big, like I said at the top. Yeah. How do we jump into this? Well, let's start with just this little from the inside flap that kind of tells us what this book is about. I'll just read it real quick. So it says. Born into Hollywood royalty, the granddaughter of the great John Barrymore, Drew Barrymore has become one of the biggest stars of her generation. Despite an unconventional childhood, her life went on an incredible trajectory in both good and difficult ways.

After starring in ET at the age of 6, she became an emancipated adult at the age of 14. And it's actually 15, But sorry, that's just me being annoying. And built a life and career of her own that millions of fans admire. Growing up wasn't always easy for Drew, but through patience, hard work, and great friendships, she did it. And now she's writing about it. I like that. It's a lovely way for that to start. And it mentions, like, what we've been talking about generations of people who, like, love her.

So cool. Yay. OK, so that's a. That's a lovely way to jump in. We should say that a lot of Wildflower content is gonna start flowing over at our Patreon, so make sure you make your way over there for that soon. Patreon.com slash Yeah, we'll, we'll talk about it more, but we're going to be covering every chapter over there in depth. But this is sort of like our overarching Wildflower episode where we're going to talk about the history of the book and get into some of those like smaller things about it.

And then you got to go over to Patreon to do the deep dive with this. Yep. All right, so this is Drew's third book. She had released A Little Girl lost in 1990 and Find it in everything in 2014. And then after this we have Rebel homemaker in 2021. So she now has four books, which is so cool that we have like more. And I'm like, I, I'll just say here like I already have multiple copies of each one and I just got two more copies of this book Wildflower on eBay for so cheap. And I'm like, great, they're my reading copies.

I think I now have 4 copies like. I love it. It's like, I'm not mad about it. No. But we do have episodes on all of those Little Girl Lost, Find in Everything and Rebel Homemaker. So we will link to those all on the episode page for this episode if you haven't listened to them already. That's so cool that we're like finally completing the whole series in a way. Well, starting starting the series and. Starting the series that will wrap up her book series, she writes the other one that we made. It sits in her a memoir.

Yeah, and that will. Obviously have to be like sources on and help Fact Check for her. I I hope. So because like I said, the flap right there tells us a lie. She did not get emancipated at 14. She thinks she's like rewritten history in her mind. Like she used to say 15. It was reported right before she turned 16. So she's actually closer to 16 than anything else. But it's OK she she did move out at 14, so I can see why she would conflate that information. Right. Like maybe the process started that early and she's just like she was done at that point.

I don't know. Yeah, she doesn't need to be the expert on the timeline of her life. That's what we're here for. That's true. So whenever you need our services, Drew for your next book, just let us know. We know you're. Listening all right so wildflower it was announced on February 26th 2015 by the publisher Dutton that she would be releasing a collection of autobiographical essays. This was a huge, like, I don't remember like where I was when we heard about it or anything like that, but it was like very surprising.

We did not know that this was coming, right? And Drew statement at the time was I love stories that are humorous, emotional and welcoming, and that is my goal in writing this book. So I think it was like it wasn't done at that point. I think she was like still in the process, which is so cool. That's cool, yeah. And we'll talk about, like, she talks about her process a bit, which is so cool that we have this, too. So we have like, not only the book, but all this extra little stuff because guess what?

We're paying attention. So here's some quotes from Drew about the process, she said. I was just trying to tell stories. I was excited about inconveniently making you feel something because it made me feel things. When I was writing it after it was finished, I was like, I think this has become something about the in between moments that really no one had, no one was Privy to. That's that's actually a really cool way to think of it, Drew. Yeah. That is a very cool way to think about it. Because her life is public, but not these things, right?

Right. Some of them we knew, but. Right of. Course, but we're weird, OK? Drew also said that writing the book was, quote, a really beautiful year long process. She would steal away for three hours a day, two to three times a week to work on it. And then she wrote the first stories I wrote at a coffee house in our summer vacation town. I would sneak out before the girls were up. I put my laptop in my bicycle basket and rode to the coffee house. It was very cliche, but I was very excited. And this totally makes me think of you editing the podcast at your little coffee place.

Did it make you think of that at all? That's how we visualize it. No, but that, that's so funny. I I don't ride my bicycle, but like I do it feels like you I couldn't hear it. So you don't know how intense it is. But I like the picture that because there's something about like the idyllic kind of like nature of how she's describing this. And like summer vacation town, you noted it's like out in Long Island. So like it's really beautiful there. So. Yeah. All right. So I like all. She points out that it's cliche, but also that she was like.

But it was she was like, I'm living the writer dream of my life. Right, OK, so here's a little bit more about the process, she said, writing about my dog, Flossy. I was bawling. And if I'm laughing while I'm writing about Cameron Diaz and these jackasses that we were with, hurling ourselves out of a plane and then crying writing about my grandfather in this Hawaiian hotel room, I'm like, OK, maybe all that will come through. I don't know if I've read that. No, yeah, I mean, this is true. That's the way she talks.

That's true. That's true. A couple more quotes just because it's like sort of fun to know where her headspace was when she. Was. Yeah, yeah. She said I actually was crying as I was typing, but I also was laughing all the way through it. I always wanted to write, but I just did not have the organized time, the bravery and probably enough life experience to feel like I had something to say. No, Drew, that's wrong. Or even perspective on my life. Like humorous objectivity. It's very personal. It's my heart on a page and yet it doesn't cross any boundaries and become anything I wouldn't want my children children to read, which I think like that's a notable thing.

This book is very rated G like right. This is not the scandal. This is like the absolute opposite of Little Girl Lost in a lot of ways. Right. Yeah, that's so, that's so interesting to think is when I read that line, when I was like looking at the notes, I was like, wouldn't normally I like I'm making it something that kids can read and it wouldn't shock them or, you know, like her own. Children. Yeah. Like it's almost like little girl lost in wildflower. These perfect like duality things that kind of represent Drew herself, like both sides of her, right?

And we're but we still have this whole thing in between that's like very intimate that we're we're ready to we're ready for that Drew that book. We're ready for all the other in betweens that you haven't talked. About yet between the in betweens. Right. And then she also said it is a cheerful, optimistic book and hopefully surprisingly emotional here and there. I wrote it with the feeling of such warmth. Which again, very opposite of Little Girl Lost. Like if you guys don't know, we just deep, deep, deep dived on Little Girl Lost.

And it is very dark and upsetting at times. And it's like, yeah, there's not a really a feeling of warmth in that book, except maybe on the side of ET. Right, so big duality here that we're going from where we're going from to where we're going to in our explorations. Like it's I'm excited. Me too, but I also was I was going to say she keeps she keeps like describing that emotional roller coaster like surprising people with emotions. So like. Yeah, hey, I mean without jumping ahead too much, I already did the first chapter and it is like emotional.

It is upsetting and sad it and it's not that one does not have like the happy warmth that I feel like the rest of the book has got it so be interesting. OK, so the title Wildflower and the release date were announced on May 13th and I just think this is so cool. We came into this part of the episode with Sheryl Crow song Wildflower and our friend Missy, who we've mentioned many, many, many times. She's the one who created the fan site where Anne and I actually met online when we were teenager. She made this beautiful tribute video to Drew for her birthday.

Like I want to say like more than 20 years ago. I mean, I feel like at least. Yeah, and she used that song. And so it's just so perfect that like, you know, that is the perfect sort of way to describe Drew a wildflower. It's like, again, it's like these two, those two books, wild and Flower. That kind of sucks, but how neat is that that she had used that? So we have that video on our Drew Zium YouTube. I had uploaded it a while ago because I just wanted it accessible. I'm so glad I had it on. Like a disk.

Yeah, watching it was so heartwarming too. I was like immediately took me back. I cannot watch it without, like, bawling, like tears rolling down my face because it just like, captures Drew's beautiful essence and why we love her so much. And it's funny because, like I said, it was made so long ago that she couldn't, like, upload clips, so she's like, filming them off her TV. But it sort of gives it like a really neat, you know, kind of retro look. I guess so. Yeah, that's actually what I thought when I there were parts of it where it looked like an old tape of footage and it was kind of staticky and I'm like, oh that's really cool cuz it looks like, like you said, like a feature someone would try to imitate.

Right. Like someone to put a filter on their stuff now to make it look like that, yeah. Anyway, I love that that like that brought you there. Like you're like, oh, wildflower, hey, that reminds me of this like wonderful moment in our specifically. Drew history. So cool. Yeah. OK, then the cover was revealed on July 20th of 2015. It's such a great cover. We'll describe it a little bit, I guess in a minute. It was a cover designed by Grace Hahn. The cover art photography done by Diego Future tell in May at Drew's home in Los Angeles.

You noted here, I love this. They'd work together in the early 20 tens for California Style magazine Flower Beauty and Flower eyewear. So a bunch of flower theme things like. Like every shoot they've ever done is just surrounded with flowers. That's perfect. Yeah, I love it so much. Yeah. What? What else do we want to say about this cover? So I guess we can just kind of describe it. Well, she's on a trampoline, right? And she, they caught her. When she's like going up, she looks just like kind of that underwater shoot from 2009.

Somehow she can just know how to work with the camera. Even in these sort of weird like me on a trampoline would not look this like peaceful and Kareem. Right. They love the like handwriting font they used for the cover and like have like kind of splashed over. It's it's perfect. Like I, I, I love this cover so much. And I also love the back of the cover where they've also got her jumping on the trampoline, but it's the back of her and there's something. So why do we love that? We love photos of the back of her.

I'm thinking of that one from another magazine. Right. I thought of that immediately. Yes, I thought of that immediately. Also, back to the front, I'm pretty sure she's holding a perfect Peony, which is my favorite flower. And it's like, it's like literally a Trader Joe's Peony. That's like they're like very special. And I was like, it's just maybe that's why I started getting some into peonies. I've never made that connection before. Right, right, That's so funny. I know you love those. And it is really lovely on this that that's like the only thing that's color really on the original cover.

Yeah, that. So the original cover is like like this, like grey a very soft, like it reminds me of like, like a neutral background color that museums use. Like it's very neutral, but like in a beautiful warm way. Like how is grey warm? I don't know. It is though you're you're nailing your description. I know you don't think you are, but I'm totally here with you. I am. I guess I've been like analyzing colors for a long time as like a framer and stuff. That's true, but what was I going to say? Oh, we haven't really talked about like her dress, like, I don't know.

It's it's it's also like simple yet beautiful and playful like it's got. Like embroidered flowers on it, it's like. Mostly white. Yeah. Like it's, it's really lovely. And then yeah, it's fun what they did for the paperback that they used basically the same layout, but it's like bright blue. Yeah, like almost Tiffany Blue. Yeah, it's. Close to that. It is kind of close to that actually. It's fun because I can always notice it on the Druze news desk because of that bright blue. It's always fun to spot it there.

That's fun. I love. I also love that they added this quote on the cover with the paperback. It says pure delight. Yeah. It's really cute. I'll just say one more thing about the back of it. So there's a quote there that's from the book. It's from the preface. Right, it says. We all have stories to tell. These are mine. Oh, and I just noticed that you can see the trampoline. Yeah, it's kind of funny that they left it in. Yeah, I like it though. Me too little behind the scenes. We love that. Yeah. And then of course, there the author photo Diego also took.

And it is true with her daughters, Olive and Frankie. And she doesn't often show them anymore. In fact, she hasn't for probably pretty soon after this book came out. So it's it's nice to know that like, like I've used that one for Mother's Day a couple times on social media because I'm like, she chose this one. She said this was OK to show people, right? This, this can be the photo that we use of them until, until there's another state. You know, I was just gonna say that until, like, they're of age and they can put out photos of themselves with their mom that we will.

Share We. Hope, right? But it's adorable. It's so cute. It captures them like how old are they here? Gosh, one and three. Yeah, they're little. It's. It's darling. It's really darling. We have more behind the scenes. This is so fun. So Drew posted a few times about recording the audio book in September of 2015. So we like have like this timeline exactly locked down by Drew herself. That's, yeah. And I guess we didn't really like put anywhere in the notes, but yes, there is an audio book of Drew reading everything herself.

We will occasionally be inserting clips from that in our coverage. Sometimes they're very slow. Like I think she was directed to be very clear and concise with her wording. So sometimes it's hard to like, you know, I think Anne and I speak a lot faster than that, and so does she normally. Right, right, right. But it'll be fun to put them in once in a while. And there are some like fun ways, of course, that she is speaking about her own story. So it's like it's a unique way to enjoy the book for sure.

And you just got it through the library, right? So people, if you haven't listened to the audiobook and you want to, that is a way you could do it for free. Yeah, it was completely free and it was easy. I had to I have to wait for like the the e-book that's not the audio book for like 2 weeks. Wow. Yeah, so that's crazy, but the audio book was available immediately. I was like, oh, perfect. Love that. Love Libby. Yes, exactly. Thank you Libby and libraries. Yeah, we love libraries, yes.

So the book was finally released on October 27th, 2015. I never think of this as like a Halloween release. It's a spring. It does just sort of like a special little thing. So the day of the release, Drew posted a tribute to her mom, Jade, on her Instagram. And she used a photo that we were asked to provide, which is really cool. Her people, AKA Mason at the time, reached out and said, you have a good photo of Drew and her mom. We sent this over. It's from the book the Barrymores. And yeah, Drew posted it and she credited us, which was really fun.

At the end of the caption, she wrote thank you to the Drew Museum for the photo and they even showed on Entertainment Tonight with the caption. I was like, wow, we made it to Entertainment Tonight. So cool. Do you want me to read the caption? OK, so the caption said today I wrote a book and as I think and celebrate many women this week, I must say a huge thank you to my mother. As I say in the acknowledgements, thank you for my life. I am ever so pleased to be here. We have had quite a road and it is paved with gratitude.

So cool. And then followed by thank you to us. I also think this photo of Jade is the most reminds me of Drew, the most of any photo of Jade I've ever seen. Funnily enough one of the first comments cuz I went to because you linked to it in our notes. Yeah, it said. Like you look so much like your mom. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, and I was like, I had never. I shouldn't say I have never, but like, I usually don't look at Jade and go, Oh my God, never. It's usually like I see her. I see her like dad, yeah, so much and that side of the family.

But you're right. It really does like look like her now. Kind of the expression, right. It's pretty cool. Yeah, it is. We have really cute pictures of you and me when we got the book, we're going to recreate those. But yeah, the book, I mean, I guess I'll just say really quickly, it was over 10 years ago. Like what? I still remember dropping Mila off some at something after school and driving to Barnes and Noble, getting my book and like, sitting down in the cafe and just like, Oh my God, it's finally in my hands and like flipping through.

I remember it being very, I mean, like, God, imagine that happening now. So exciting. It's so exciting. It's so exciting. And Speaking of exciting things, they did a bunch of book signings around the country. Not a bunch, a few. No, there were a lot. I think it was 10, yeah. Oh wow, cool. And we have to mention another thing that we're at. We're just here to brag today, I guess in Los Angeles on November 4th, we were in attendance for the book signing at the Grove. Is it? Is that what the Barnes and?

Noble at the Grove. And we have an episode about this. We're just going to keep veering you to more episodes. Episode 16, we tell you all the details about that day, which was also very special. That was. Very special. We were kind of given, I'll just say it, VIP access. So it's sort of funny. It's like we went from, you know, being off to the sidelines with all the fans at the 51st dates premiere. And eleven years later. Yeah, We were literally like reserved seats in the front. We were told to not go through the regular line for signing the book.

We were treated to like a little private hang, withdrew after everybody had left like. Incredible. That was that was probably when when did we go to flower and like talk to her in the entrance? 2011 those two are probably like our best, like, right, you know, moments of like really getting her time and just being really special. Not that going to the Drew Barrymore Show wasn't, but that was much more rushed. Right. So this, I mean, this was one of the times that her team at that time were really In Sync with us and utilizing us and seeing our value.

It was really incredible and I love that you like in our notes you popped in like the card we gave her and the little gift that we gave her. I'm like Oh my God, I forgot these little details of like. Yeah. You know. We got our nails done like at Olive in June, Which carried Flower Beauty nail Polish. And yeah, Drew's like friends with the owner of that. Like it was just a very like, exciting day. And we had like our In style magazines, I believe, like it was just a total Drew day. And we'll just mention too, like we were there with Jelena and Brian, of course, our friends, our friends who we've mentioned before.

Hi guys, Both been on the show. They're both amazing. Yes, and we got to all like we have like a row of these drew bees just all giggling together. And we had all met on the same message board as teenagers, like Jolena and Brian were like 14 when we met the pod line. So little, so like, and like we're full adults in this and it's 10 years ago. Like this is guys, we've been at this for a while. Yeah. And I don't unfortunately remember which of the inscriptions she put on my book, but your book is signed.

Love you so. I know. Yeah. So we got to have, like, our own private little signings with her. I know that she wrote. I think in Jolena's, she wrote Love, love, love. Like they were all different. Yeah. Which is so cute. And I think. Mine says you're the best with a little error, but. Wouldn't it be true otherwise? And then we kind of, I remember we had sort of discussed ahead of time, like what if we had her sign? Like we don't normally go for autographs. It's not really our like major thing. But what if we have our sign something and make it out to the Jerusalem?

And so she did. There it is. And showing it both to post this video.

So we brought the famous Herbritz photo of her profile. It's like kind of the Drew picture to a lot of us. And it was like the perfect thing to bring. And she wrote to the Drewzium. My friends, all my love, your girl D. Yeah. And so this became like the heading of our website, the the Jerusalem. It's our like profile image on a lot of things and. It's and it's the picture I've I've taken to get my hair cut probably since 2005 or something. But yes, I have it framed and it's at my home in Maine. With I'm so like that's not in storage.

It's one of the only parts of my collection that I brought with me and I'm not sure why but I think I was just like oh I can bring like that feels easy enough to like pack with other if. You hadn't. I would have been like, you need to send it to me like it needs to be seen. This was very special. Like it was like, it literally feels like the postcard was like the perfect thing for signing like the way that the way that the white border is. Oh, Drew. It's just gorgeous. So that's our, like, own little side amazing story to do with Wildflower.

It's just, you know, we're very lucky to have had that access and that opportunity. Thank you, Chris Miller. And yeah, so now we'll get back to the book. We also have to mention that Wildflower appeared on the New York Times bestseller list the week of November 15th at #9 and stayed on the list for three weeks. So I'm sure that was huge for Drew. Oh, yeah. Like, I mean, that's really exciting. And I mean, us Ruby is all over the world. We're a huge part of that. Yeah, and like, as someone who loves books so much and she like reveres authors, like that's probably, you know, I, I think I don't know about Rebel Homemaker, but her other three books are on the list at various points as well.

So pretty cool. Right. I'm sure it's that made her really proud. Yeah, that's what she deserved. Yes, we made one more note about another release. So the paperback book was released on May 17th of 2016. I don't remember if I bought a copy of the paperback yet. Oh no, isn't. That weird you? Must. I must, you think I must, but I don't remember. You think I must, but must I?

Well go get it cuz it's cute. Yes, it's very cute. OK, so we're gonna talk talk about some kind of random parts of the book. So like I said, we're not gonna get into chapter by chapter until we're over on Patreon, but we will talk about there is a dedication, there is a preface, there is a poem entitled Wildflower, and there are the acknowledgments. So we'll get into all of those and then come join us on Patreon for the rest. Yes. OK, so let's just get into the dedication first. I love that it's just like it's beautifully.

It sets it in a very specific place in time. Yes. But it also it's very sweet. To my friend family, my flower family, my Kopelman family, and my daughters, thank you. You taught me everything I know. Sweet, to the point, concise. Love it. This is probably a good place to note. So when this book came out, Drew was still married to Will Kopelman and that is very much reflected in some of the chapters. These are chapters I don't think would be included if she was to like repackage the book these. Days right their.

Split was announced early April of 2016, so not terribly long after this came out. And I even I think I was reading like an article from the beginning of 2016 and it, it was, it was you could read between the lines that things were, you know. Wheels were turning in that. Direction story. Yeah, yeah, got it. So it's just feels worth mentioning because as I said, when we get into some of the chapters, it's gonna be very focused. And here we have it right there that she's saying my Copeland family and I don't, I don't think she would include that these days.

Just a guess. I wonder if she would just like kind of like group it under some other very general family statement. My daughter's family. Yeah, I wonder. It is. It is interesting to think about, like how she looks back on that time. Another thing we would love to read in her memoir, Future memoir. Just interview her about why not hi. Drew, come on the pod. OK. So we'll just kind of go through the preface a little bit, and she talks a bit about like the making of the book. Yeah. So she explains that the stories are personal, and she wanted to just, like, elaborate on these certain memorable moments in her life rather than write a quote sweeping life story.

And I think, you know, maybe we should have even said that earlier. Like, this is not a chronological linear biography, right? This is literally like short little essays about just different moments in her life that she wanted to talk about. It's, it's so fun and it's so unique in its own little thing. Yeah. And again, that sweeping life story thing like. Leave that to the pros. We've pretty much been doing that for the last 3 1/2 years on this podcast. That's. True. And she says that her publisher wanted to call this a memoir, but that felt too heavy for Drew.

Like it just didn't feel right. Because it's it's not really. It's interesting to think of like the distinction, like, OK, then it becomes what? Like a biographical book of essays. Like biographical essays? Yeah, that's. That's accurate. Yeah. She, she said this before in the quotes that we said above. But she wants the book to be something you could just, like, dip into and feel something. So like you, like you said that like even in the first like story, there are like emotions that come up. So definitely, definitely.

And then finally, she explains how hard it was for her to like pull herself away from her daughter's to work on this. But she made it happen, which I'm like, props to you because even just recording this today took a lot of like moving parts for me. I do not have my daughters around. Yep, Yep, totally, totally. Again, like a little peek into that moment. We're looking at this little girls on that cover like little little girls. So we have this is video you took at that book signing of Drew Reading.

So we're going to just finish the end of the preface of Drew Reading this at the book signing rather than the audiobook. This is kind of more like exclusive to us. Yes. And very like fun to revisit this version. Yeah. So here we go. For some reason I had to write this book. I have become more private every year and yet these stories were beating at the door of my heart, screaming. Let me. Out.

Maybe it was that I have always dreamed of being a writer. Those people who do the typing and the transporting are my heroes. I have never been able to do that. I have never been brave enough, hard enough, had enough, to say I had not exercised those abilities in my life, and now I have, alone in a room. And yet, as I say in the book, you do nothing in this life alone, and most of all, you do not live alone. And therefore we all have stories to tell. These are mine. You know, I just had an interesting thought, like as as she was reading that because she's like, oh, I've never been that person to sit down and do the typing.

And I'm like, yeah, we've kind of learned with little girl loss. She did not. Like she went and sat with Todd Gold in a restaurant and told him everything and then he ghost wrote it. But right, it's sort of neat to know, like, this was sort of her chance to really do that. To really do that, Yeah. When did she start doing like those blog posts? Oh, that was like COVID. That was like 2020, OK. That's so fun and has like a yeah, a feeling that's akin, like almost like those are little essays. Right.

Oh my gosh. Well, when we finish doing Wildflower, we'll do all the the blog, the blog. That there's not that many of them. Yeah. I wish she would bring that back. Gosh. Right, I know the last one was quite a while ago. Anyway, we'll get into that later. Guys. We have endless content to cover with Miss Barrymore. Oh, it's time to come. So here's another thing we want to hear. I want to I thought it would be fun to hear Drew read. So the the first kind of like it's not a chapter, but the first like content in the book is a poem called Wildflower you noted here.

We like, don't know when it was written because there's not really any attribution day or anything or like who it was written for. Yeah, I remember it first being like, did Drew write this? And like, it's very obvious. But I remember when I was first reading it, I was like, wait, where's this coming from? What is this? Right, so I'm going to play the audio book version of it just so we can hear the poet herself. OK. Wildflower, a poem out there in the world of chaos. All the concrete and fumes. People with determination behind the wheel, the soles of their feet.

Wiser, some faces with souls of routine, others with high hope of their destination. Among all the human and industrial invention, my eyes find a tiny wildflower with pretty yellow petals and a brown button nose, reminding me that there is beauty everywhere. A compass of nature, a second of stillness in my mind as my heart races to the rhythms of its swaying in the wind. You are that flower, reminding me of what is real.

No, that's cool. I just had two thoughts while we were listening to it. Sorry. I just so many things come up to me on the fly. Number one is that the the flower swaying the wind is literally like a feature of the wildflower video that Missy made. It's kind of weird. It sure is like the primary feature. Yeah, there's a Daisy flapping in the wind. That's. Crazy. And also, this is very thematic of the 1st chapter where she's talking about, I'm not gonna go too deep, but where she's talking about growing up in a kind of gritty neighborhood.

But she had these tiny little pieces of nature at this duplex where she lived, and that it's sort of the same thing here in the concrete, this little wildflower growing. And I'm sure she sees herself, that little wildflower. Yeah, and I like how above it was like, who is this written for? I think she's just writing it for herself, right. Oh, maybe. OK, so this is all this is fun because it gets into like so many people we know why they are here, a handful of people, why that we don't. So the acknowledgement section.

Yeah, it's almost like this weird little like peek into something that you're not really supposed to know. Like I always love the acknowledgements in books cuz you kind of find information that maybe you wouldn't normally. I don't know, It's just a funny thing. I mean, similar to like, it's not really the same, but like notes at the end of like scholarly papers sometimes will be like this person for like helping me like not kill myself. Like not really, but like, yeah, here's all the people who helped them through it.

And it's just like at the end of some like very anyway. I totally get what you're saying. Yeah. This is the very end of the book. Yeah. We're just going to, like, quickly summarize here and there. So she of course starts out by thanking her girls and the Kopelman family. Of course. The flower, her flower films family, and she specifically mentions Nancy Javonin, Chris Miller and Mason Hughes, who yeah, we've talked about all three in this episode already. That's hilarious. Yes, we have. And I feel like she says something specifically about Mason, like I don't remember what it is, but something like.

I wanna look. Says the great Mason Hughes, who is my rock in every way. I just thought that was it was sweet. Come back. Great. I know what what is. Do we know what Mason's doing now? It's a side, side moment. Yeah, I don't know. Mason, we'd love to have you on. Are you listening? I would love to have him on. I've put the offer out before. Maybe I need to put it out again. Yeah, maybe. Tony's been on a couple times. He's he's kind of like making up for some of Mason's silence there. She also acknowledges that her literary agent, Simon Green, and her editor, Jill Schwartzman.

And you pulled a quote of Jill talking about Drew. Yeah. Yeah. What is it from? It's from Good Housekeeping 2016. I just happened to like come across it while I was not looking for it. So, so, her editor said. Drew is so passionate and dedicated. We sat shoulder to shoulder, ending her book, and not only is she a wonderful writer, but by the time she left, I'm certain she'd hugged at least 75% of us. Probably 100. Let's see, that sounds about. Right. She also thanks, of course, Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw.

So there's a like sweet, of course, little thing about that. Yeah, then there's like, there's like agents, attorneys and business managers. We don't need to give their names. She does give a special thank you to makeup artist Robin Fredericks. And she said because Robin always said to me in a playful yet forceful tone that I should write about my story. So thank you, Robin. Yeah, thank you. We have you to think specifically. And then the next section is she lists girls who make her swoon. So these are a bunch of her girlfriends.

We're not going to read them all. Cameron is there, her old school buddies, Mel and Justine, which is fun, like Tamara Davis. It's a great list. There's some that I'm like who? But for the most part I'm like Yep, that all makes sense. Yeah, yeah, she also thinks her nanny, so she lists two people specifically by name, which is really sweet. Of course, she's talking all about, like, not being around the girls all day during this process. So big deal. Like TJ Vodin's parents, she thanks them for making her feel like a daughter, which is breaks my heart a bit.

I love that she thanks Jimmy Fallon. And so it's like, go socks. Yeah. That's so funny. Yeah. She also thinks the crew of the cover art for the book, So the photographer Diego, and then Deborah Ferrullo, who did her makeup and Mr. Daniel Howell, who did her hair, which is, she says, like, thanks for always making me look beautiful or something like that. Yeah. There's also the former Barrymore Brands designer director Francesca de la Fuenta, or Fuente, she accidentally writes. Francesca Fuente. And I was like trying to find her.

I'm like, that's not right. So it's, I think she was the one behind the look of like Flower Press and that old Like Flower by Drew website that was so colorful and graphic. I think she's the reason for that. She did some like Barrymore Mag, I mean Drew magazine stuff as well. Very cool. And Dear Drew, she was very involved with the Dear Drew store. We love that stuff. Yeah, like, amazing. And then her last two acknowledgments are two of her parents, she says. And to my mother, Eldiko Jay Barrymore, thank you.

I am ever so pleased to be on this planet. And to my father, John Drew Barrymore, see you again someday. Oh, really? Sweet. Yeah, so that's really cool. So those are the acknowledgments. So those are all the kind of like, little bits and bobs from the books that aren't in the chapters. One last little thing just to sort of wrap it up on the book flap, it says from Fancy love her work. To anyone who has ever had to struggle to become an adult on his or her own terms, this is a book that will inspire delight and show the true meaning of family, happiness and love.

Nah, it's true. So just for the last time, we're going to say it again. There are 28 chapters in this book, which is more than I realized we were signing on for. All right, all right. We'll be covering them in depth on our Patreon. We were kind of talking privately about how some of the chapters might be, you know, not have enough to expound upon that we'll just like put a couple in an episode together maybe, right? But we're starting with chapter 1, of course, which is called Birds of Paradise.

It centers around Drew's early childhood in West Hollywood. And that one is going to be a stand alone. It's already got a lot that we're going to talk about. There's plenty of like outside sources of the same sort of information that I want to get into. And amazingly, through research, I've already uncovered some really rare photos from her neighbors in her duplex and some really interesting information. So you guys have to go join our Patreon to see and listen to these exclusive episodes we're going to be releasing.

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