Drew Barrymore has spoken more about how it was such a mess after her divorce from husband Will Kopelman.
The 48-year-old Charlie’s Angels star shared this week 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 to the Los Angeles Times. ‘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 Ever After actress, who revealed her messy bedroom to fans, wanted her daughters to have the nuclear family she didn’t have growing up and her divorce felt like a personal failure.
Getting Healthy: Drew Barrymore is staying real and admits she was on a destructive spiral with alcohol and her therapist dumped her.
Divorce drama: The ET star, who shares daughters Olive, 10, and Frankie, eight, with her ex, Will Kopelman, started drinking heavily when their marriage failed
Even Drew’s friends noticed her spiral. Cameron Diaz, 50, called it “hard to watch.”
“But she knew that if we all stuck to her and gave her the support she needed, she would find her way,” Diaz revealed to the LA Times.
‘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.
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 dumped her, she contacted him again and they started working together again.
Family issues: She wanted her daughters to have the nuclear family she didn’t have growing up and her divorce felt like a personal failure.
Deja vu: Drew had a battle with drugs and alcohol as a teenager and went to rehab multiple times
She realized that the only person she didn’t support was herself.
‘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.
Now, she has become sober once more.
Sobriety: Now the 50 First Dates star is sober once again and back to working with her therapist