14 DAY TRIAL // Long before the Lindsay Lohans and the Amanda Bynes of our times, Drew Barrymore was one of the first problem child stars / tabloid fixtures, with a life so scandalous and troubled that her first trip to rehab was at 13. In a new interview with ABC News, she says she doesn’t want her daughter to make the same mistakes she made.
That also includes (though Drew doesn’t necessarily consider it a “mistake”) posing for men’s magazine Playboy, which Drew did when she was 19.
Asked if she’d like if her daughter Olive came one day to her to tell her she wanted to do Playboy, Drew says she’d actually do her best to make her daughter change her mind.
Still, she insists, she has “no regrets whatsoever,” but she feels that Olive should take her own journey in life and not replicate her own.
“I would not let her. I don't think I would. I would influence her not to, because my life choices are supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey. I have no regrets in my life whatsoever. I'm psyched about it all. I'm just in such a different mind frame. I'm in mom mode now,” the actress says.
Now pregnant with her second child and enjoying a more chilled out life with her third husband, Drew says she doesn’t cringe when she looks back on her hellraiser life.
However, these days, her goal is to live a life that would serve as model for her kids.
“I celebrate that I had any sense of freedoms at a certain point, because I don't feel like that now. The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example, and whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work,” she says.