The Fatal Attraction star explained that he met Barrymore when she was just 11 years old and working as a server in New York City.
“I’m in a restaurant called Columbus, and this is back in the early ’80s,” he recalled while visiting The Drew Barrymore Show on Wednesday. “It was a real hot restaurant, the hot spot up in the Upper West Side on Columbus Avenue. And we’re heading there one night and this waitress comes over to serve me and it’s this 11-year-old young lady here.”
And Barrymore was apparently quite the host. “[She said,] ‘Hi, can I help you, please?’ I said, ‘Well, is it past your bedtime?'” Douglas teased. “And you were incredible.”
The 80-year-old actor went on to note that his son Cameron Douglas met Barrymore around the same time at the now-defunct Chelsea nightclub Limelight.
“Yes, oh, I was all up in the clubs,” Barrymore replied. Turning to Cameron, also a guest on the talk show, she added, “I mean, we got into a lot of trouble, you and I. And look at where we are now! I’m so proud of both of us.”
These days, Barrymore explained, she wants to invest her time putting down roots and focusing on her family. “When I was young, I didn’t really have family,” she said. “I was out running around waitressing and clubbing, working,” she said. “Having the best time ever, by the way. Best time. But then you get older and you’re like, ‘What life am I looking to build and be a part of?'”
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Despite being a child at the time, Barrymore grew up going to clubs like Studio 54 with her mother and even threw her 10th birthday party at a bar. The Never Been Kissed star previously reminisced about her antics at the Limelight partying it up with Billy Idol in an April episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.
“I mean, Billy, that is where I see us,” she told the singer. “When I think of you, my mind is back in the old club days,” Barrymore said at the time. “What the hell do you remember from those days?”
“Not very much,” Idol confessed, prompting Barrymore to jokingly reply, “Me neither. I was hoping you could color stuff in for me.”
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