Drew Barrymore recently opened up about a personal journey she’s been on for more than two years: sobriety. On Thursday, the actor and talk show host said on CBS This Morning, “I have not had a drink of alcohol in two and a half years. It was something I realized just did not serve me and my life.”
The actor shared the news for the first time on the morning show. When asked about the biggest change she’s seen in herself since she stopped drinking, she responded, “I love this quote, ‘Insecurity is loud, confidence is quiet.’ This was something I didn’t talk to people about for years because it was this quiet, confident journey,” she said. “And now, it’s been long enough where I’m in a lifestyle that I know is really working on a high road for my little journey. And there’s so much peace finally being had where there were demons.”
Barrymore, 46, was on CBS This Morning to promote her recent The Drew Barrymore Show interview with Machine Gun Kelly where—while he gave her a manicure to promote his new nail polish line, UN/DN LAQR—the two ended up having a deep conversation about not being okay even when they’re projecting positivity for their fans and followers. “I think I’m new to being vulnerable outside of songs. So it’s like, I see a lot of pictures of me and there’s like smiles on them. And I was like, it’s just weird though, because I didn’t feel good at all that day,” the rapper said. “A lot of what I do is for other people and I haven’t given myself the time to just accept that it’s okay to not be okay.”
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In turn, Barrymore validated Kelly’s emotional reality and shared that she’d really struggled after her 2016 divorce from Will Kopelman. She eventually retreated to Utah to work through it. “I went there to go change my life. I went through a really painful divorce and I wasn’t doing very well,” she told Machine Gun Kelly in the promotional clip. “And I had these two kids that I had to fight for, and I needed help.”
She also said she hopes it’s not the last time celebrities—and the rest of us—get real about life being less than perfect. She pointed to Bella Hadid’s recent emotional Instagram posts as an example of public figures sharing their truth. “I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a revolt against the perfection right now that we are all forced to see and feel through social media,” she told the CBS This Morning hosts. “I think it is time for us, especially coming out of what we’ve come out of. How can we show our vulnerability? How can we talk about if something is going on? What is the path to getting better? And then talking about that journey and being more communicative.”
It’s not the first time Barrymore has been candid about her struggles. In an episode of The Drew Barrymore Show earlier this year, she visited the psychiatric ward where she’d spent a year and a half as a 13-year-old. “Life is so wonderful compared to what it was in this place. I can’t even believe I actually get to be where I am now because when I was here I didn’t see that, I thought I would be here forever,” she said during the visit, holding back tears. “I never thought I was going to make it to somewhere better and I am just so happy with my life and I don’t know if I would have the life I have if it wasn’t for a place like this. So it was so important to come here today and just honor this.”
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