For a talk show host, Drew Barrymore makes a pretty good interview subject herself.
She recently switched roles with Entertainment Tonight and revealed some personal realities about her dating life – one that has been scrutinized since she took her family’s famous name back up on the big screen in the 1990s.
Compared to her “It Girl” heyday, Barrymore has pulled back the dating rings. Of course, she’s busier than ever with her daytime show, being a mother, and as an executive producer on a number of projects the last few years (“Santa Clarita Diet,” “Rattled,” “Charlie’s Angels”). Not to mention the revived interest in the “Scream” franchise, upon the release of the recent reboot.
Despite those adulting roadblocks and general tough luck, Barrymore remains optimistic about the whole dating ritual.
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“Most of them have been not so great,” she admitted, “but to me those are like funny stories, and I never want people to get cynical out there. You have to be hopeful, and you have to do it for yourself. Get ready, play music, put on your favorite outfit.”
Though she was a bit distressed after her last marriage to Will Kopelman that ended in 2016. But leave it to those ever-helpful guys from “Queer Eye” who helped get Barrymore back on her dating feet.
“I had a great discovery talking with the guys,” she explained, “and I started crying with Bobby [Berk] 'cause I realized that a big part of my journey has been that I'm just for me. I'm a mom and I don't know how to date with kids. It hasn't been my priority and I don't really know how to navigate it.”
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Barrymore then really dug into personal realities in that vulnerable way that has made her such a relatable star.
“I think as my kids have gotten older and their dad is happily remarried,” she said, “times change and, you know, we bloom, and I am more open to it now. It's been six years, I'm a little rusty, my life is very different, I've never even approached dating, let alone a relationship as a single mom who has finally made an investment in myself. I have always been about relationships and my kids and everyone else. I don't think I've ever entered a relationship, this whole of a person as an individual entity.”
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