BREAKING NEWS: Drew Barrymore’s half-sister ‘found dead in her car’ in California
- Jessica Barrymore was ‘found dead in her car’ surrounded by pills
- The half-sister of Drew Barrymore was to turn 48 tomorrow
- She was discovered by a woman who she had blocked in her driveway
Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore’s half-sister has been ‘found dead’ from a suspected suicide in California just days before her birthday.
Jessica Barrymore, 47, was found dead in her car in National City, just north of San Diego, on Tuesday.
It has been reported that numerous white pills were scattered on the passenger seat of her car.
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Jessica Barrymore, 47, was found dead in her car yesterday from a suspected suicide
Marta Lopez made the discovery when she tried to leave for work but was blocked in her driveway by Ms Barrymore’s car, 10News reported.
She unsuccessfully tried to wake Ms Barrymore, who was to turn 48 tomorrow, before calling the police.
Ms Barrymore’s cause of death is yet to be determined, but an autopsy is scheduled.
Ms Barrymore is the daughter of actor John Drew Barrymore – who is also the father of the Charlie’s Angels actress – and his third wife Nina Wayne.
The Barrymore family is yet to comment on the death.
According to her Facebook page, Ms Barrymore attended the San Diego School of Creative Arts and lives in San Marcos.
In a cryptic last message on her profile page on July 28, Ms Barrymore shared a post from Mystera Magazine that said: ‘Life doesn’t always introduce you to the people you want to meet.
‘Sometimes,life puts you in touch with the people you need to meet to Help You, to Hurt You, to Guide You, to Leave You, to Love You, and to gradually Strengthen You into the Person You Were Meant to Become.’
Before becoming one of Hollywood’s leading stars, Drew Barrymore had a well-********ed battle with drugs and alcohol in her teenage years and has often spoken about her strained family life.
In her autobiography Little Girl Lost, published when she was 14, Drew wrote, ‘I had my first drink at age nine, began smoking marijuana at ten and at 12 took up cocaine.’
By 13 she was in rehab and following a suicide attempt and a further stint in rehab, at 15 she successfully petitioned for emancipation from her parents.
Her father John was an alcoholic and abandoned Drew and her mother when she was a baby and was in and out of jail on drugs charges before he died of cancer.
And her mother Jaid, who struggled as an actress, took her to nightclubs when she was just eight, and to auditions before she was a year old. Drew has described the relationship as ‘my greatest battle’.
And the Barrymore’s relationship with substance abuse doesn’t end there. Drew’s grandfather, the legendary actor John Barrymore, died from alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver aged 60.
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