Drew Barrymore looks back on his divorce from Ex Will Koppelman.
The Charlie’s Angels The 49-year-old star said she has put her acting career on hold to focus on her two daughters, 12, and Frankie, 9 Split from Kopelman in 2016..
“My dream family was falling apart and I didn’t know how to put one foot in front of the other,” Barrymore reflects on her divorce in the latest issue of AARP The Magazine. “And I had grown up so fast, but now I didn’t know what age to feel – I just knew that my life was hard and painful and sad – and I sat in it for a while.”
“Eventually, thank God, I pulled out of it. I had two kids and I had to figure it out,” she added.
Drew Barrymore isn’t holding back about her struggles to get back on the dating scene after her split from ex-husband Will Kopelman. Barrymore and Koppelman tied the knot in 2012. and later welcomed daughters Olive and Frankie. After four years of marriage, the couple announced their separation in April 2016. After Kopelman married Alexandra Michler (…)
The Santa Clarita Diet The actress explained that amid her difficult breakup, she wanted to be her daughters’ “dream” parent, so she took a step back from acting.
“I was in my early 40s and I hadn’t learned how to be my healthy, independent self, how to be the parent I dreamed of being,” Barrymore said. “Being other people doesn’t help me figure that out right now. And the long hours of filmmaking were hours I would not have had with my children. I wouldn’t do it. “
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Courtesy of The Drew Barrymore ShowBarrymore hosts her own talk show, The Drew Barrymore Showfrom 2020 Last year, the show was picked up for a sixth season, which it came as a huge relief For the star.
“The way it looks from the outside, it was a scary time. It was a scary job and there are just no guarantees,” Barrymore told Us Weekly from her talk show in August 2024. “At certain times I really didn’t think we would ever get here. So it’s such a gift to everybody who does the show because then they know they have some security. We don’t go from year to year. “
It does everything! Drew Barrymore made a big splash in Hollywood as the charming Gertie in Steven Spielberg’s ET the extraterrestrial—and has since expanded her impressive resume. Since her on-stage debut in the 1982 sci-fi film, the 47-year-old California native has gone on to star in the likes of Never Be Kissed, Wedding Singer, Charlie’s Angels, he’s (…)
Calling her eponymous talk show ‘The Greatest Gift’, Barrymore added: ‘It gives us a huge sigh of relief. … This is the nicest, coziest, best gift for all who make the show that we will stay. And a lot of these jobs just don’t make it that far and there’s no guarantees, so it’s not like, “Oh yeah!” It’s like, “Oh, thank goodness!” It’s such a gift and privilege that I don’t take one thing for granted and I’m really excited for everyone who works on the show to breathe a big sigh of relief. “
The Drew Barrymore Show It premiered amid the Covid-19 pandemic, something Barrymore said helped her and the show’s crew learn on the fly. “Two years and two years, you’re calling people, ‘don’t take another job.’ I believe, the Lives of the Crew.
