ContactMusic reports that Barrymore was the big bread winner in her family. During her childhood, the Charlie’s Angels star worried about how her family would be affected if she wasn’t working.
The 31 year-old star said, "I was always afraid if I didn’t work we wouldn’t eat and we’d lose our house. I had that 40-year-old male mentality of needing to provide for my family – when I was three years old."
For several years Barrymore has been dating the drummer of the rock band The Strokes, Fabrizio Moretti.