Hollywood star Drew Barrymore just spoke out to confirm the bizarre rumor that her grandfather John Barrymore’s corpse was “stolen.”

While appearing on the YouTube channel Hot Ones, Barrymore revealed that it’s true that her grandfather’s body was stolen from the morgue in May 1942 by his friends so they could all party together one final time. She explained that John’s three friends, Errol Flynn, W.C. Fields, and Sadakichi Hartmann, stole his body and propped it up at a poker table.

“I hope my friends do the same for me,” Barrymore joked. “That is the kind of spirit I can get behind. Just prop the old bag up and have a last few rounds.”

“I think death comes with so much morose sadness, and I understand that, but if it’s okay, just with me, if everyone can be really happy and celebratory and have a party, that would be my preference,” the former E.T. star added.

Barrymore went on to say that this stunt would later inspire a movie.

“Not only yes [about the rumor], but there have been cinematic interpretations of that,” she said. “A Blake Edwards film called ‘S.O.B.’ that’s just brilliant and fun to watch.”

This comes as Barrymore is preparing to launch her daytime talk show “The Drew Barrymore Show,” which is set to premiere September 14 on CBS.

“I’m really looking forward to this digital world we are about to bring you into,” she said in a recent press release, according to Fox News. ”I have been on this show journey for a year. We started in 2019, it is now 2020, a very different year.”

In this same YouTube appearance, Barrymore explained why she fought to have her Scream character killed off right away in the 1996 movie.

“In the horror film genre, my biggest pet peeve was that I always knew the main character was going to be slugging through at the end, but was going to creak by and make it,” she said. “What I wanted to do is to take that comfort zone away. I asked if I could be Casey Becker so we would establish this rule does not apply in this film.”