
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.
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. “
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.