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

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[just444]

she had such a fucked up childhood, makes sense to me that having own children changed a lot for her view on things

[skyler_white_yo]

That was my thinking too. I remember there being stories about Jack Nicholson raping her when she was a young teen. Sad to say, he probably wasn’t the only one, and she was probably conditioned to think it was normal. Having her own kids probably made her realize that 12 years should not be having sex with middle aged men.

[simprov]

WHAT? is this true????

[daisy_princess]

This originated from a blind on CDAN so take with a huge grain of salt. There’s really no evidence to back this. However I would be shocked if she didn’t experience some level of abuse in her young days.

[saemcrh]

"Sad to say, he probably wasn’t the only one"

Why do you say this as if it's a confirmed fact and not sourced from some bullshit blind item site like CDAN?

[skyler_white_yo]

You are correct, I shouldn’t have said that.

[crystalzelda]

TW rape, abuse

I know a lot of women who used to look back at themselves and laugh and say “oh I was so bad, I got myself into trouble, I deserved to get beaten/get raped/have horrible shit happen to me, what did I expect lol”. When they have kids, they actually see a 5 year old, 10 year old, 15 year old in action and it really dawns on them how YOUNG children are, how naive, how little they understand. They see their kids and ask themselves how on Earth could a parent beat a small toddler who can barely talk black and blue for being “disrespectful”, how a grown man could look at a preteen in pigtails and be sexually attracted to that, and basically it dawns on them that the shit they went through is so so wrong. It’s a really sad realization and really makes people rethink like… everything.

[insomniachobs]

TW: assault

Yep. Even outside of young girls, it happens on a much wider scale with women of all ages in terms of the way certain forms of harassment and sexual aggression are normalised, and it really does sometimes take being confronted with someone else's perspective to snap you out of it. How many of us have been outright sexually assaulted and it brushed off as some guy taking his shot or banter, like all he did was use a pick up line instead of grab you? It took me years to realise I'd been assaulted, and then only because I saw a very similar story on Everyday Sexism where I was like "oh it's so sad this girl is downplaying it and blaming herself when obvio... oh shit" and the lightbulb went off.

[snark_ranger]

This reminds of that HBO Movie - The Tale with Laura Dern about a girl who is groomed when she is 13. One thing they did that was so jarring and effective is in the flashback sequences the actress playing her at 13 looks like “tv 13” aka probably closer to 15ish and then Lauren Dern sees a photo of herself when she was actually 13 and is shock by how young and childlike she looks. The flashbacks from that point use an actual 13 year old actress and it makes the whole story that much more unsettling.