Drew Barrymore's Irish naked field fun

Jan 23, 2007, 8:00 GMT

Drew Barrymore loves to run naked in Irish fields.

The actress - who claims she has outgrown her wild teenage years - admits she still loves to be spontaneous sometimes.

Drew confessed to Parade magazine: "I'll drive in Ireland and park my car and run out into the field and rip all my clothes off and just run in the wheat fields naked. That's for no one to see. That's to have that freedom of feeling at one with nature. So I am completely unguarded, still."

The 31-year-old star admits she still finds it difficult to forget her troubled childhood, but is determined to remain positive.

Drew, who recently split from her boyfriend Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti, said: "It was hard. My childhood lacked structure, stability and consistency. You want to place blame on people, but I don't think it's fair. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. You can let that be your downfall or a springboard to become something better.

"For me, I just thought, 'What a waste of time to be angry at my parents. What a waste of time to feel sorry for myself.' The best thing I can do is learn all the things I've learned from them, good and bad, have my own family someday and just keep on going. So many things are thrown at us as human beings, but you can't let any of them get you down, or you're just going to be defeated."

After starring in classic sci-fi film 'E.T.' aged just seven, Drew started smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol by the time she was nine, smoking marijuana at 10, and taking cocaine at 12.

Drew opened her heart about her childhood drug use in her 1990 autobiography, 'Little Girl Lost'.

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