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Drew Barrymore offered some rare insight into the 2001 house fire that claimed all of her belongings on this morning’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.
After Barrymore told her guest, Gary Oldman, that she had been in his house before, he recalled the time that she and her ex-husband Tom Green were house hunting when he was living in Hollywood Hills.
“My house had actually probably burnt down,” Barrymore said, to which Oldman replied, “That was it! There was a fire and you had no home.”
According to Barrymore, the experience was “very traumatizing” — but what surprised her the most was the way in which people tried to comfort her following the incident.
“When your house burns down, almost everyone’s comment was, ‘Isn’t it sort of cleansing?'” she remembered. “And you’re like, ‘What the hell are you talking about? I just lost everything that means anything to me!'”
One of those important items Barrymore lost in the fire was her childhood passport, which had “all the stamps” of everywhere she had been.
“I’m like, ‘You want a cleanse? Go get an enema,'” she joked. “This is not that. This is trauma.”
Days before Barrymore’s 26th birthday in February 2001, she and then-fiancé Green were asleep in the primary bedroom when their dog Flossie woke them up at 3:30 a.m. to the smell of smoke. After calling 911, Barrymore, Green and their three dogs were able to escape from the burning house, according to the New York Post.
It ultimately took more than 60 Los Angeles and Beverly Hills firefighters nearly an hour to extinguish the fire, which caused an estimated $700,000 worth of damages to the two-story, 3,500-square-foot home.
“We’re great,” Barrymore told reporters at the time, while her comedian beau sarcastically quipped, “Other than the fact that the home burned down.”
The Drew Barrymore Show airs on weekdays on CBS. You can check the website for local airtimes.
