Drew Barrymore Offers Advice on How to Move on After Divorce
Drew Barrymore
On the latest episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the talk show host gave an audience member advice on how to cope with divorce.
Drew Barrymore admitted to the fan that divorce took her years to "get over." She acknowledged, "I know that's probably the worst thing I could tell you."
The woman told Barrymore she had been married for 21 years before calling it quits and shares two adult children with her ex and has another daughter from a previous marriage. The Never Been Kissed star noted, "Well, maybe this is your time. Maybe you put yourself on the back-burner for everyone else." She then shared advice her own therapist, Barry Michaels, gave her: "He taught me last night—and I wrote it down on a card—to please turn my self loathing into self love."
"I don't know if that helps, but we beat ourselves up so much. It's like, not only do we put everybody first, but then everything that went wrong is always our fault, why can't we get over it quicker," Barrymore added.
She continued, "It's like you stay in this stuck state, you get stuck in the weeds, too. It's so hard to rise above and out of it and get closer to the sun. You know, you stay wallowing in the darkness so give yourself time."
Barrymore has gone through divorce three times—with her marriages to Jeremy Thomas and Tom Green lasting less than a year—but her last divorce was the toughest.
The actress married art consultant Will Kopelman in 2012 and shares two children with him: Olive, 11, and Frankie, 9. They announced their divorce in 2016. During her chat with Machine Gun Kelly on her show in 2021, Barrymore noted that she "went through a really painful divorce" and sought help for her mental health.
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