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Steven Spielberg has said he felt 'very helpless' while watching Drew Barrymore be 'robbed of her childhood' while making E.T.
The award-winning director, 76, and the child star, 48, formed a close bond on the set of the 1982 film.
Speaking in a new interview with Vulture, Drew, who has been open about her tumultuous childhood, called him 'the only person in my life to this day that ever was a parental figure'.
Their relationship was so strong that Drew even asked the filmmaker if he would be her dad. While he said 'no', he did agree to be her godfather instead.
Speaking about his closeness with Drew, Steven told Vulture that she would show up wearing red lipstick to the office, and he would be the one to tell her to take it off.
Candid: Steven Spielberg has said he felt 'very helpless' while watching Drew Barrymore be 'robbed of her childhood' while making E.T. (pictured in April with Ke Huy Quan)
Father figure: The award-winning director, 76, and the child star, 48, formed a close bond on the set of the 1982 film (pictured in 1982)
He recalled: 'She was staying up way past her bedtime, going to places she should have only been hearing about, and living a life at a very tender age that I think robbed her of her childhood.
'Yet I felt very helpless because I wasn’t her dad. I could only kind of be a consigliere to her.'
He revealed that Drew stayed with him on weekends and he took her to Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm, while gifting her with a cat that she named Gertie after her character in
