Drew Barrymore Divorce: Cut up Led Star To Drink

She infamously struggled with dependancy in her early years as a baby star, however Drew Barrymore has revealed that outdated demons drove her to drink within the wake of her 2016 divorce from ex-husband Will Kopelman. In a brand new interview with People, the actor spoke in regards to the “cripplingly troublesome” time in her life after her marriage broke down.

“It was simply making an attempt to numb the ache and really feel good—and alcohol completely did that for me,” the star advised the publication. “The ingesting factor for me was a continuing, like, ‘You can not change. You might be weak and incapable of doing what’s finest for you. You retain considering you’ll grasp this factor, and it’s getting the higher of you’.”

The Flower Beauty founder defined that relocating to New York to be nearer to Kopelman’s household prompted her to interrupt down throughout her first winter in a brand new metropolis. “It simply took me down,” she mentioned. “There are occasions the place you’ll be able to take a look at somebody you suppose is a powerful individual and see them so damaged and go, ‘How the f— did they get there?’ And I used to be that individual. I broke.”

Though her cut up from Kopelman was amicable, Barrymore struggled to take care of the sudden upheaval. “There was no scandal. Nothing went fallacious, which is cleaner, however makes it tougher and extra complicated as a result of there isn’t The Factor to level to,” she mentioned. “We tried so exhausting to make it work. [A friend] mentioned to me, ‘Divorce is the loss of life of a dream.’ That’s precisely what it appears like, one thing so ultimate you’ll be able to’t get it again.”

The star says going to remedy and beginning work on her hit discuss present, The Drew Barrymore Present, impressed her to alter her life and stop ingesting. “It was my children that made me really feel prefer it’s recreation time,” she mentioned, including that the present “gave me one thing to concentrate on and pour myself into. It gave us one thing to consider in.”

Barrymore now enjoys an in depth relationship with Kopelman and his new spouse, Alexandra Michler, as they co-parent daughters Olive and Frankie, and says she’s lastly discovered her happiness once more – even when some days it doesn’t come so simply.

“It’s a selection,” she admits. “You need to work for that.”

We like to see our Drew wholesome and completely happy once more.