Drew Barrymore’s childhood was anything but easy. She’s talked a lot about her days of hard-partying and addiction in interviews and in her 1990 memoir, Little Girl Lost, but now she’s getting real about her time in a mental health facility — and it’s not the perspective we were expecting.

On Monday, she spoke with Howard Stern on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Showabout her mother, Jaid Barrymore, putting her in an institution at age of 13, and it sounds pretty brutal. “I was in a place for a year and a half called Van Nuys Psychiatric and you couldn’t mess around in there,” she explained to Stern. “If you did, you’d get thrown either in the padded room or get put in stretcher restraints and tied up.”