Drew Barrymore reveals why rehab at 14 was 'the best thing that ever happened' to her

Drew Barrymore is looking back on being a wayward teen.

The “50 First Dates” star opened up about entering rehab at just 14 while talking with Mae Martin during “The Drew Barrymore Show” on Friday.

Martin, who uses they/them pronouns, recently released the new Netflix series “Wayward,” which also stars Alyvia Alyn Lind, Sidney Topliffe and Toni Collette. 9

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The thriller centers around two friends attending an academy for troubled teens, and Martin revealed that the story was loosely inspired by a real-life friend “sent to one of these troubled teen institutes” for two years.

“I also was someone who got taken away and put in a place for two years,” Barrymore, 50, shared regarding her 18-month stint Van Nuys Psychiatric Hospital in the mid-1980s.

“I did not know that,” Martin