Drew Barrymore regrets posing for ‘Playboy’ in ‘chaste’ 1995 photoshoot, saying it was ‘unlikely to come back’

After more than 40 years working in Hollywood, Drew Barrymore is bound to have a few regrets.

In a “very vulnerable” Instagram post Friday, the actress and talk show host reflected on her years in the spotlight, how her tumultuous childhood inspired her parenting today, and the remorse she still feels about her 1995 “Playboy” photo shoot.

“I have been exposed to many hedonistic scenarios at parties and even at home, where the viewing was of a very sensitive nature and caused me immense shame,” Barrymore wrote in an article titled PHONE HOME. “We children are not supposed to see these images. And, yes, I was even a big exhibitionist when I was young because of these environments I lived in. I considered it art, and I still don’t judge it.”

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Drew Barrymore regrets appearing on the cover of Playboy in 1995. (Getty Images)

“But when I did a chaste art moment in Playboy in my early 20s, I thought it was going to be a magazine that probably wouldn’t resurface because it was a print magazine,” Barrymore added. “I never thought the Internet would exist. I didn’t know so much.”

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As a mother of two preteen daughters (Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10), Barrymore said she is focused on protecting her children “in the way I want to be protected.”

Especially when it comes to the new world of social media.

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“As a child, I often wished someone would tell me ‘no’, I wanted to rebel so much all the time, and it was because I had no safety barriers. I had too much access and excess, and eventually, ‘no’ became a real challenge.”

“I never imagined, not in my wildest dreams, that children would end up in my boat of excess and access,” she added.

Drew Barrymore (Getty Images/Kevin Mazur Archive/WireImage)

Barrymore then explained that she was emancipated at age 14, which is when she moved into her first apartment.

“I started my life over on my own terms. But I felt like no one could take care of me,” she wrote. “My own mother was castigated for letting me lose control. I have so much empathy for her now, because I am a mother. And none of us are perfect.”

“I was on the cover of the National Enquirer and every other magazine, presented as a bygone tragedy… I wanted to disappear from the planet and never come back.”

— Drew Barrymore

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“Now that I am a mother, I can’t believe I live in a world that I know is tied to my own failures and those of many of my peers who let themselves get carried away too early. Children aren’t supposed to be exposed to so much. They’re supposed to be protected. They’re supposed to hear NO.”

Drew Barrymore attends the 2023 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on March 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)

Barrymore also discussed the toxicity that group texts can cause.

“We need to protect our children from being placed in scenarios where they cannot always control the rhetoric of multi-party dynamics that is stored on a cloud and may one day haunt them,” she wrote.

“I did something stupid in public when I was 13, and people were shocked,” she added. “I was on the cover of the National Enquirer and every other magazine, like a tragedy that failed. And I thought that was going to be my story forever. I wanted to disappear from the planet and never come back.”

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“But I put one foot in front of the other and got my life back on track, but I made more mistakes along the way, but that’s life,” she continued. “We make mistakes. And people have been so kind to me. They’ve forgiven me. And they’ve encouraged me as I’ve grown.”

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“So yeah, it’s also my karma and my life’s work to encourage people back!” Barrymore concludes. “We all fall down and get back up. Over and over again. Life is a roller coaster. And what a ride it is!”