Drew Barrymore gets candid about the words that haunted her childhood

Drew Barrymore got candid about the scars left by Hollywood's beauty standards.

During the latest episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the actress reflected on growing up in the spotlight.

Looking at a photo of herself at the age of 10, Barrymore got emotional as she recalled being told she was "too heavy."

She said, "This picture… It just breaks my heart. I was 10 years old and I just was told by everybody, ‘You don’t look how you did in E.T. You’re too heavy. You’re not blonde enough. You’re not old enough. You’re too young. You’re not tall.’ And everybody just started getting involved in the way I looked."

Furthermore, Barrymore told her pal Valerie Bertinelli that such comments had been "going on for a few years at this point."

"It’s like, I don’t know what I’m supposed to be for other people. And you don’t know yourself at 10. What I’m so relieved about now is that it’s four decades later, I’m 50… I do know what’s important now, and the look in my eyes is so clear," Barrymore said.

Adding that it's nice to know that "no matter how low it gets, or how much pressure we feel, or how unproud of ourselves, or how we are not pleasing to someone else, or we’re not fitting into some mold someone created for us… that real, true happiness is just this choice we make."

"It’s a battle and a beautiful, internal war that we fight on the front lines, day in and day out, to get to a place where we can actually say this sentence and believe it, which is: ‘I deserve happiness,'" she said of her struggles.

On the other hand, Drew Barrymore also took a moment and shared a special message for the viewers. She said, "If you feel pressure to be a certain way, you are not alone. I have been there with you and it is not a comfortable feeling."

"Somehow, some way, on the other side of that is like… kind of adulthood, and a personal freedom, and a desire to stop pleasing everybody else and start realizing what it’s gonna take for you to feel good about yourself no matter what you look like or feel like," she added.