Drew Barrymore opens up on the elevation of girls as a divorced mother.
Barrymore, 50, spoke to Moon Zappadaughter of Frank ZappaFriday, March 21, episode of her eponymous program, where she asked Moon, 57, on her new book which tackles her experience as a parent.
“Do you think we are also so determined to be these mothers capable, these responsible, these reliable … and did you fight about each little thing along the way?” Asked Barrymore.
When Moon replied yes, Barrymore revealed that she hoped to raise her daughters, Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10, in a more traditional setting. She shares Olive and Frankie with the ex-husband Will Kopelmanthat she divorced in 2016.
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“Everything for me was very devastating and took me a lot of time to recover if it was not in the traditional family dynamic that I swear that I would do for my family because I was not growing in this way,” she said.
Barrymore endured a notoriously turbulent childhood which included a Passage in detoxification cure at 13 years old And the emancipation of his parents at the age of 15.
“It’s strange things like that. It’s soup when you’re sick, “she continued. “I remember that all the children of the school went to the office to call their parents when they were sick and that I could never grasp anyone,” she said. “And I was so jealous of these children who would call and say,” Mom, dad, come and get me. I sat right there and I said to myself: “What does he look like?” »»
Barrymore spoke of the feeling of His dream family Slipping through his front fingers. In an interview of January 2025 with AARP the magazineBarrymore remembers getting away by the difficulties of his divorce by thinking of his children.
“My dream family collapsed and I did not know how to put one foot in front of the other,” she said. “And I had grown up so fast, but now I didn’t know how old to feel – I just knew that my life was heavy, painful and sad – and I sat in there for a while.”
“Finally, thank God, I got out of that. I had two children and I had to understand it,” she added.
Part of the understanding, she said, was to take a break to act to be there for her daughters.
“I was at the start of the forties and I can’t learn to be my own healthy and independent person, how to be the parent I dream of being,” she said. “Being other people does not help me understand this right now. And the long hours of films were hours that I would not have with my children. I was not going to do that.”
