Drew Barrymore’s mother, Ildiko Jaid Mako Barrymore, kept an iron grip on her daughter. Jaid appointed herself Drew’s manager when she was a child, and she placed a lot of emphasis on her young client’s appearance — as evidenced in a throwback video Drew posted on Instagram.
The clip shows a seven-year-old Drew, looking cute as a button, during an appearance on the Johnny Carson show. “Tell me if you notice this,” she says, explaining it’d be easier to talk “without my teeth.” As a confused Carson looks on, Drew whips out a row of false teeth from her mouth and breaks out into a wide grin, showing off the huge gap where her baby teeth had fallen out, and the permanent ones were still growing in. Drew said she wore the fake gnashers for TV appearances but that “they kill.”
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Drew’s relationship with her mother became increasingly problematic as she grew older. She was totally living a sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll lifestyle at 13, thanks to her enabling momager. Still, eventually, it all became too much for Jaid to deal with. “I think she created a monster, and she didn’t know what to do with the monster,” Drew admitted on “The Howard Stern Show.” Her mom was at such a loss that she threw her daughter into a psychiatric ward for a year, and the singer David Crosby took in Drew for a while after she was released at 14.
