


Drew Barrymore knows how to throw a party. On this morning’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress remembered hosting “500-person parties” back in the day.
The trip down memory lane came during a conversation with the cast of Yellowjackets, including Barrymore’s old friends Christina Ricci and Melanie Lynskey, who were the first to bring up her “fun parties.”
“I would throw these 500-person parties,” Barrymore said, to which Ricci added, “They were so fun. I don’t remember leaving your parties. But I definitely remember getting there and being there.”
Barrymore playfully said that was “all [she] could hope for,” while Lynskey remembered the “painting studio” Barrymore set up in her house for the gatherings.
“There were always like ping pong tables, or like quarters games. It was sort of like [an] artistic frat house,” Barrymore said. “It was at a time — I felt like everyone would come and it was all discretion and cool and good times.”
Lynskey and Barrymore’s friendship goes way back to the late 1990s, when they both starred in Ever After. In the Cinderella-inspired flick, Lynskey and Megan Dodds played Barrymore’s step-sisters.

The last time Lynskey appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show, she and Barrymore reminisced on their time filming the movie — including a topless photo Lynskey took of Dodds in a cornfield.
“I don’t know what I was thinking at the time. It was just kind of like, ‘Oh, this would be really groovy to do. Let’s go take topless photos in a cornfield,'” Dodds said in the March 2023 episode, while Lynskey added, “By the way, this was like day three of knowing each other. And the suggestion was made and I was like, ‘OK … sure.'”
Barrymore then joked, “I guess it’s just what us girls do. Oh, to be a girl.”
The Drew Barrymore Show airs on weekdays on CBS. You can check the website for local airtimes.