Cameron Diaz discusses Drew Barrymore’s battle with alcohol after marriage fell apart
Cameron Diaz has opened up emotionally about Drew Barrymore’s battle with alcohol and the road to sobriety in a new interview.
Diaz, 50, who has been best friends with Barrymore, 48, since the 1990s, said watching her friend slip into depression and drink after her divorce from Will Kopelman in 2016 was “hard to watch.” .
The friends then staged a ‘quasi-intervention’ to help the actress fight her demons, which were also triggered when she moved from her ‘constant’ Los Angeles to New York.
Talking with him The Los Angeles Times In a profile to Barrymore, The Mask actress said: “But she knew if we all stuck to her and gave her the support she needed, she would find her way.”
‘I have absolute faith in her. You can’t even comprehend how hard it was to be her as a child, and then she shot off the other end with the ability to save herself.
Friends: Cameron Diaz has opened up emotionally about Drew Barrymore’s battle with alcohol and journey to sobriety in a new interview
The Charlie’s Angels star shared that she was in such a destructive spiral that her therapist, Barry Michels, dumped her.
“He just said, ‘I can’t do this anymore,'” she revealed. ‘It was really about my drinking. I said, “I get it. I’ve never respected you more. You see I’m not getting better. And I hope, one day, I can get your trust back.”
The ET star, who shares daughters Olive, 10, and Frankie, eight, with her ex, started drinking heavily when their marriage failed.
The 50 First Dates actress was married to Kopelman from 2012 to 2016.
He spent a few years after the divorce drinking to numb the pain. When she started her talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show, in 2019, she had an epiphany.
“I think the opportunity in a show like this really hit me,” he said. “I was like, ‘I can’t handle this unless I’m in a really clear place.
‘”
The Santa Clarita Diet alum put the bottle down after shooting her talk show pilot. And two years after her therapist left her, she contacted him again and they started working together again.
She realized that the only person she didn’t support was herself.
Happier times: Diaz, 50, who has been best friends with Barrymore, 48, since the ’90s, said watching her friend slip into depression and drink after her divorce from Will Kopelman in 2016 was ” hard to see” (pictured in 2014)
” class=”blkBorder img-share” style=”max-width:100%” />
A world away: Drew had walked this road before. When he was 13 years old, he entered rehab for drug and alcohol abuse.
‘You seem so inspired by everyone else, but you treat yourself like s-. When are you going to be enough for yourself? she said.
Drew had been down this road before. When he was 13 years old, he entered rehab for drug and alcohol abuse.
At 14, she attempted suicide and went back to rehab.
When a tabloid outed her, she decided to write her story in the memoir Little Girl Lost in 1990.
“Day by day, Drew Barrymore is getting there,” the book’s dust jacket read. ‘She knows that other kids can do it too.’
Drew emancipated himself from his parents at age 15 and moved into his own apartment in West Hollywood.
In December, Barrymore revealed that giving up alcohol allowed him to “finally break free from the torture of guilt” when he opened up about his sobriety.
The star opened up about her sobriety in an essay published in Take Care of Yourself, the December issue of her monthly magazine titled Drew.
The award-winning actress wrote about her detachment from alcohol, as she called it “one of the most liberating things on my journey through life.”
Writing in his monthly magazine, Drew encouraged readers to put themselves first when he said, “One of the bravest things you can do is slay those dragons and finally change a horrible cycle you’ve found yourself trapped in. “. For me, it was to stop drinking.
Drew further admitted that giving up alcohol allowed him to “finally break free from the torture of guilt and dysfunction.”
In a message to readers, he continued: “Take a moment, breathe, and squeeze.” We are all doing our best here. And that in itself is something to celebrate.
Legendary: Drew rose to fame at the age of seven in 1982’s ET the Extra-Terrestrial
The seasoned actress who rose to fame at age 6 for her portrayal of Gertie in the 1982 film, ET the Extra-Terrestrial, battled alcohol and drug addiction in her youth.
In 1989, Barrymore, then 14, detailed to People magazine how he had his first drink at nine, smoked marijuana at 10, and started using cocaine at 12. By 13, he had gone to treatment twice. drug rehab.
She was briefly blacklisted from Hollywood at age 12.
Drew, who doesn’t walk away from his past addictions, told CBS This Morning in December 2021 that “alcohol didn’t help him.”