Drew Barrymore has recalled going on an “irresponsibly fast” motorbike ride with Keanu Reeves on her sixteenth birthday.

The two go way back having starred in the 1986 made-for-TV-movie Babes In Toyland when Barrymore was just 11 and Reeves was 21.

She decided to bring up a memory with the actor that she says she holds “dear” when he was a guest on her show yesterday promoting his latest film The Matrix Ressurrections.

“Can I take it back to a memory that I have with you?” she asked Reeves. “I was at this club and it was my 16th birthday… and you walked in and you grabbed my hand and you took me outside and you put me on your motorcycle.”

“Oh my,” a mildy horrified Reeves replied, with Barrymore continuing: “We drove at the warp speed of my life. We went and you took me on the ride of my life and I was so free.

“I was such a free human being and it was this moment where I just remember loving life and being so happy. I hold it so dear because the older we get, the harder it is to get to that feeling.”

Clearly unable to recall the incident and trying to style it out, Reeves asked, “I wonder where I took you,” with Barrymore suggesting that the club was on Third Street in Los Angeles and that the pair had gone “irresponsibly fast”.

“I think we definitely took off down third and then we drove around for a while and then we went back and I went back in and I don’t remember if you came in or not. I literally walked back into the party like skipping… I’m now realising you can’t have a better sweet 16 than being put on your motorcycle and having the moment where you understand what freedom is.”