Valerie Bertinelli Tells Drew Barrymore She Got In “Trouble” For Lying On Her Acting Resume As A Kid: “I Looked Like A Weirdo”

Valerie Bertinelli and Drew Barrymore are bonding over their experiences as baby actresses. Whereas chatting on this morning’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Present, the 2 stars admitted to mendacity on their appearing resumes once they have been youngsters.

After the duo, together with Ross Mathews, whipped up a recipe from Bertinelli’s new cookbook Indulge, Barrymore pulled out their first-ever headshots.

“You’d get an 8×10 shiny. And on the again of the 8×10 shiny was your resume and you would need to say, ‘I can sing, I can faucet,’” Barrymore defined to the viewers. “All lies. I couldn’t do any of the issues it stated that I may do. It was like singing, dancing. You place like all of your skillsets as a toddler that you simply don’t actually have.”

Bertinelli, who rose to fame within the Nineteen Seventies sitcom One Day at a Time, revealed that she was responsible of doing the identical factor — and that she as soon as received caught in her lies.

“You may roller-skate. You may skateboard,” she stated. “And that received me in hassle as a result of then I did a film in London — one thing about Charles Dickens going backwards and forwards in time — and I needed to trip a skateboard. And it stated I may trip a skateboard. I’m like, ‘Oh my God. I truly need to trip a skateboard.’”

She added, “I did it. However I appeared like a weirdo.”

The tv persona additionally appeared again on her first-ever appearing gig in a JCPenny business she booked when she was “barely 12” years previous.

“I received the job as a result of I truly match within the garments — which is ironic as a result of [I’m] all about meals and clothes and feeling uncomfortable in your physique, and right here I get the job as a result of I match within the garments,” she stated. “And I hated doing any type of garments fittings or something like that as a result of it could remind me of how imperfect I used to be.”

Whereas she opened up about hitting “all-time low” at one level in her life, Bertinelli stated she is in a significantly better place as of late.

“I’m a lot stronger than I ever thought I may very well be,” she instructed Barrymore.

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