(Originally posted as a $3/story exclusive to my Patreon on October 30, 2016.)

This day in MC history: October 30,
1995:

Once America’s sweetheart, playing
little Gertie in family hit E.T., Drew Barrymore became a notorious wild
child, getting heavily into drugs and alcohol by her early teens, and playing
the sexually charged, seductive title character of Poison Ivy at just
17, then posing for a nude Playboy pictorial at 19.

The breaking point was when she
flashed David Letterman live on camera. People who cared about her–her mother,
her agent, a certain major Hollywood director who’d given her her first big
break–knew she was endangering her career and her life. With nowhere else to
go, they contacted an individual known only as The Fixer, unheard of by the
general public, but well-known among the wealthy for his ability to help their
daughters stop embarrassing behavior from excessive partying to inappropriate
romances, even rescuing and deprogramming cult members!

Drew was his greatest challenge yet,
willful, rebellious, and clever. But slowly, over a period of months, he wore
her down, first using the very drugs he was supposed to wean her from to reward
her behavior, then hypnotizing her while she was too high to resist. Gradually
he shifted her addiction from the drugs to obedience, then used her growing
need to obey him to condition her further, focusing her wild sexuality on his
own pleasure.

On this day in 1995, she finally
broke, calling him Master for the first time. Once her bad girl persona was
completely submissive to him, it was easy to build a good girl persona which
she would use from then on to interact with the rest of the world. He released
her back to her family and friends, and retired, never again taking another
job.

Or so it was believed at the time.
Today we know that he didn’t stop at all, merely changed tactics. The bad girl
remained within Drew, called out by the Fixer whenever he triggered her. And
trigger her he did, sometimes to serve him sexually, and other times to help
him ensnare one of Drew’s many celebrity friends, coworkers, and eventually proteges.
Thus began the Fixer’s second career, as one of the most successful celebrity
serial recruiters in history…

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Model: Drew Barrymore

Source: Playboy, January 1995
issue