Selma Blair clears the air with Drew Barrymore about ‘poison pen’ letters

Selma Blair’s memoir, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up, revealed the darkest sides of the actress’s young life.

Appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress recounted a story from the book where she recalled her father’s girlfriend sending “poison pen” letters to Drew under Selma’s name.

Blair said the letters, which were not hers, contained death threats to Drew and that other letters had been sent to a film studio, causing the actress to lose a role.

“In my book, I had a really close relationship with my mom and my dad and I went in and out having friendships, it never really clicked,” Blair explained. “Because he did something so unthinkable to me, I’d never really call him Papa again.”

Selma accused her father of being involved in a plot to derail her career by sending letters via FedEx to a film studio claiming the actress was a “heroin addict.’

“It was a real kind of poison letter about me, claiming to be a cop. They fired me before they even fired.

“They were nice to me, but explained, ‘We don’t know what’s going on, the liability. We don’t believe this, but” she dropped.

Some time later, Selma was approached by the police about a new series of bizarre letters.

“I hear of a detective who said, ‘We know it’s not you’ — this may have been almost a year later — ‘but someone wrote letters to Drew Barrymore, poison letters, signed by Selma Blair,'” she explained.

“In the end, long story short, I found out that it was my father, someone who was involved with my father and he was sending this information to us…” [his girlfriend at the time]said Blair.

Add: ‘When he found out it was her, he chose her and didn’t believe me. He said, “No, she’s not doing this, you’re ruining her life too, you’re putting a mickey in her drink at Starbucks.” I’m like, ‘I’m in New York, I’ve never met her.’

Her father was later released and “admitted to the end” that he was guilty, but the two never mend their relationship.

As for Drew, she was as shocked as anyone when she read the story in Selma’s autobiography, since she had never received the threatening letters at all.

‘Good news, [they] really didn’t reach me,” said the host. “Then I received your book and I thought, ‘F**k this, I’m going after her, I want to heal this moment.’

Barrymore told her guest that she would never have believed Selma was capable of the threats, even if she had read them.

“You were my favorite from childhood, because you were the girl,” Selma said emotionally. “That’s why the letters went to you, I suppose, because he knew what you meant to me. It’s not random. You were the favourite.’

Blair’s book is a candid look at the star’s difficult life, revealing harrowing stories, such as how she attempted suicide in college after her boyfriend broke up with her and said she swallowed a bottle of Tylenol and drank tequila. sat in the back while she was in his closet.

Blair’s memoirs also address her struggles with alcoholism, which began when she was just a child.

In an extract obtained by Peopleshe described the first time she got drunk as a “revelation, saying that the effects of alcohol initially felt like the “warmth of God” filling her.

It was Passover, a Jewish holiday when drinking wine is a big part of the ceremonial dinner called a Seder.

She had been allowed to drink small sips of Manischewitz wine at her family’s Seders for years, but she was carried away the year she was seven.

Since “nobody paid attention to my level of consumption,” she drank enough Manischewitz to get more than a buzz.

“I got drunk that night. Very drunk. Finally, I was put to bed with my sister Katie. In the morning I didn’t remember how I got there,’ she recalls.

After that she usually stopped drinking to get drunk, but she had’quick sips when my anxiety should subside,’ leaving her barely tipsy.

“I became a seasoned alcoholic, adept at hiding my secret,” she wrote.

‘It was difficult. I don’t know. But maybe it was easier. Maybe I would never have survived without a drink,” she told Savannah Guthrie on the… Todayy show last Wednesday.

Blair continued to drink through grade school, high school, and high school.

“I don’t know if I would have survived my childhood without alcoholism,” she told People. ‘That’s why it’s such a problem for many people. It really is a huge comfort, a huge relief in the beginning.

“Maybe even the early years for me, because I started doing that very young as a comfort, as my coping mechanism,” she said.

In college, her alcohol abuse worsened — and made her vulnerable to predators. More than once she was too drunk to stop the men who raped her.

“I was raped several times because I was too drunk to say the words ‘Please’. Stop,” she said.

During spring break, after a day of binge drinking, she said she had been raped by at least one man.

“I don’t know if they both raped me. One of them certainly did,” she wrote.

“I made myself small and quiet and waited for it to be over. I wish I could say what happened to me that night was an anomaly, but it wasn’t,” she said. “Only that one time was violent. I came out of every event silent and ashamed.’

Blair has been sober since 2016 and has worked with a therapist on her trauma.

The actress, who has also spoken candidly about multiple sclerosis, said she also found it helpful to write about it in her memoir.

The new memoir also takes a closer look at her struggles with MS, and she said on Today this morning that she now realizes “there were so many things that pointed to MS earlier in her life.”

“I’m sure I had it when I was 23,” she said. “It must have been there that long.”

Blair teased a few details when she announced her memoir on Instagram in December: “Little by little through journal pages and letters, I wrote my first book: Mean Baby.”