Drew Barrymore Reacts To Death Threats From ‘Selma Blair’ On Her Show: ‘I Want To Heal This Moment’

Drew Barrymore invited Selma Blair connected her speech amusement for a almighty “healing moment” aft Blair, 50, wrote astir a bid of “death threat” letters that were sent to Barrymore signed successful her name. The Legally Blonde and Cruel Intentions star elaborate the shocking incidental successful her publication Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up, revealing that the letters successful question were really from the woman of her precocious estranged begetter Elliot Beitner.

“I perceive from a detective who said, ‘We cognize this is not you’… ‘but idiosyncratic has been penning letters to Drew Barrymore, poison pen letters, signed by Selma Blair,’” she explained connected the Sept. 14 occurrence of The Drew Barrymore Show. “When [my father] recovered retired it was her, helium chose her and didn’t judge me. He said, ‘No she’s not doing this, you’re besides ruining her life, you enactment a mickey successful her portion astatine Starbucks.’ I’m like, ‘I’m successful New York, I’ve ne'er met her,’” Selma explained.

Drew Barrymore and Selma Blair beryllium down connected Drew’s speech show. (CBS)

Drew confirmed that the letters “didn’t get to me,” but learned astir the incidental aft speechmaking Selma’s book. “Then I received your publication and past I was like, ‘F*** this, I’m going aft her, I privation to heal this moment,’” the Ever After actress said successful an affectional moment. “Because it wasn’t existent for maine connected my broadside due to the fact that I would ne'er uncertainty you and really person been a full instrumentality of yours connected the side,” she added.

On Selma’s end, the incidental — successful summation to different — forced her to chopped ties with her dad. “My full big beingness aft that, erstwhile I knew it was him, I had to chopped him out,” the actress, who suffers from MS, explained. Her begetter died successful 2012 — but earlier his passing, “admitted” that helium knew his woman had written the unspeakable letters. Despite that, Selma and her dada “never had a existent make-up.” She went connected to accidental that, “We ne'er truly clicked. Because helium did thing truthful unthinkable to me, I would ne'er telephone him Dad again, really.”

Selma besides revealed that she believed her dada targeted Drew owed to knowing that Selma was a immense instrumentality of the Never Been Kissed star. “You were the girl,” she said. “That’s wherefore the letters went to you, I assume, due to the fact that helium knew what you meant to me. It’s not random… You were the favorite.”