Drew Barrymore tried to 'numb the pain' with drinking after divorce, says kids were motivation to stop
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Drew Barrymore opened up about the last decade, including the "cripplingly difficult" period she went through after her divorce from ex-husband Will Kopelman and how she coped.
"After the life I planned for my kids didn't work out — I almost think that was harder than the stuff [I went through] as a kid. It felt a lot more real because it wasn't just me. It was about these kids that I cared so much about. And then I probably cared so much that I was only giving to them and not taking care of myself. It was a messy, painful, excruciating walk through the fire and come back to life kind of trajectory," she shared. Caroline Thayer is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Follow Caroline Thayer on Twitter at @carolinejthayer.
Barrymore shares two children with Kopelman, daughters Olive and Frankie, 10 and 8 respectively.