Drew Barrymore Says Having Children Changed Her Opinion About Working With Woody Allen

[celja]

"I was gaslit into not looking at a narrative beyond what I was being told." https://t.co/MfPpvk2iTl
- BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) May 18, 2021
Drew Barrymore is saying she now regrets working with Woody Allen. She starred in his 1996 film Everybody Says I Love You

Comments

[bloodbelieve]

we're really just using gaslighting to refer to anything now i see

[birkenstoxxx]

i think it's so common that half the time we don't even recognize gaslighting, if anything it's under-stated.

[colorfilm]

it pisses me off so much cos it just....it makes the word mean nothing, just like « triggered ».

plus gaslighting is such a hard thing to understand and explain yet you have people walking around spouting that they were gaslit when they mean « forced » or bcos someone lied to them theyre like, omg gaslighting!!! if u dont get ya dr phil goofy ass outta here

[theactualworst]

Drew was a child star and blowing coke with adults in clubs at age 12. When she says she was gaslit into thinking Woody was fine, she means by the industry as a whole from a young age.

[carminaburana]

Seriously - i think some folks are forgetting what Drew herself has been through as a child star.

[pciam]

Yeah I think at face value her wording does seem a bit… ~idk~ not quite right… almost as if she’s using it as an easy rationalization BUT when adding the extra context of Drew’s history and likely her speaking on behalf of the industry as a whole being ~enamored~ by him, I will give her the benefit of the doubt here. Most importantly here she let Dylan use her platform to speak which I am thankful for

[my_moloko]

I think a lot of people are so young they don't even know about her childhood.

[crystalzelda]

Yeah, she’s probably one of the few people who can definitely rest on the “Hollywood fucked my priorities” trope and not come off as disingenuous.

[misscrystal]

The rampant misuse of gaslit/gaslighting annoys the shit out of me, but you have a point here.

[poopanna]

Thank you for pointing this out to the people that aren’t understanding that she’s using the term correctly.

[chllschse]

I guess it's to be expected once a word or term has entered common usage. That's why I stay away from the word along with woke, triggered, intersectionality, and a host of other "buzz words" that people throw around in contexts that do not make sense. But at the same time, language is constantly is evolving........

[januarysix]

What I hate is when conservatives weaponize those words and twist them around. Like when they complain about "wokeists" etc..

[chllschse]

Yep. Agreed.

[crazyfirecrotch]

yes, it's the new "it" term.

[insomniachobs]

It's one of those terms people latch onto because it suddenly gives them a term for something common but they've never been able to put words to, but then becomes massively overused by people who don't understand the specifics. It's not just any time somebody tells you a fib or downplays an inconvenient truth

edit: To be clear, I'm saying that generally. I think what Drew's describing in the industry arguably counts

[zoaster_toaster]

I agree in the general sense but considering Drew was a child star with a really fucked up past with drugs, neglectful parents, and more I'd say her use of "gaslight" is warranted.