Drew Barrymore was not cruel to his mother in the interview, writes Pablo Escalona. In her recent novel The Sisterhood of Bad Daughters, Vanessa Montfort speaks, in a light tone, about a few annoying motherhoods.

I, who have no descendants, will always be a daughter even if I become an old man (wrinkled as it happens, but a daughter), and my mother, who was a wonderful woman, continues to shrink a corner of my heart with a feeling of debt. I think this is largely due to the anomaly in which we have lived.