Drew Barrymore reveals real reason that she posed for Playboy amid unforeseen consequences

Drew Barrymore reflected on being on the cover of Playboy almost 30 years after it was published.

Through a "very vulnerable" message via Instagram on Friday, titled Phone Home, a reference to her debut film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Drew addressed posing for the racy magazine in 1995. The Charlie’s Angels star broke down the perspective she had on posing for Playboy for their January 1995 issue, which was just before her 20th birthday.

"I was around plenty of hedonistic scenarios at parties and even in my own home where the viewing was of highly sensitive natures and caused me tremendous shame," Drew wrote in the post.

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She added: "We, as kids, are not meant to see these images. And, yes, I was even a big exhibitionist when I was young due to these environments I was in. I thought of it as art, and I still do not judge it."

The actor-turned-talk show host expressed that modeled for Playboy because she assumed her photos would be long forgotten down the road.

"But when I did a chaste artistic moment in Playboy in my early 20s, I thought it would be a magazine that was unlikely to resurface because it was paper," the Drew Barrymore Show host continued. "I never knew there would be an internet. I didn't know so many things."

Drew went to reveal that she was "was emancipated at 14 years old and moved into my first apartment," and with her freedom she, felt like she "started my life over on my own terms."

The Fire Starter actress noted that she had to take care of herself since she was on her own.

"But in a consistent message to myself, I found that there was no one to take care of me," Drew mentioned. "My own mother was lambasted for allowing me to get so out of control. I have so much empathy for her now, because I am a mother. And none of us is perfect."

Drew mentioned that she and her mom "chose to invite in a world of privilege with the work I was doing," expressing that her breakout role in E.T. was "a powerful thing to be brought into the world" with.

"Since then, I was lucky enough to start engaging with people. I have never stopped," the pop culture icon explained. "I marvel at how kind people have been to me in my life. And I want to give that goodness right back in reciprocity. We have all grown up together, and we are still growing."