Drew Barrymore made an emotional confession about being a single mother.
The 50 -year -old actor spoke openly about becoming a parent during a conversation with singer Moon Zappa Drew Barrymore Show On Friday. Barrymore is the mother of two daughters, Olive, 12 and Frankie 10, whom she shares with her ex -husband, Will Copelman.
He started a conversation with Zappa everyday by asking a question about family dynamics.
“Do you think we are also these competent mothers, these accountable, these reliable … are firm to be …?” Barrymore asked. “And have you defeated yourself about everything on the way?”
After responding Zappa, he said, Charlie’s Angels Star faced some emotional challenges as a mother.
Barrymore said, “Everything was very disastrous for me and it took me a long time to overcome it, if it was not in the dynamic of the traditional family, I took an oath that I would do this for my family because I was not older like this,” Barimore, whose parents were divorced, said.
Barrymore and Zappa, of which the latter is preparing to release its memoir Moon from earthDuring his childhood, he continued to talk about lack of stability. Wedding singer Star recalled how he felt about other children with parents who were very involved in his life.
For example, it was “weird” to him that when he was ill, seeing his classmates turning to his parents, because he did not have that kind of relationship with his mother or father.
“I remember all the children of the school used to go to the office to call their parents when they were ill and I never got any catch,” she said. “And I was very jealous of the children who would call and like, ‘Mother, father, let’s pick me up.” I would just sit there and happen, ‘What is so?’ ,
Barrymore’s parents, Z Barrymore and late John Barimore divorced in 1984, when their daughter was nine years old. At the age of 14, Barrymore left himself from his parents, which was a decision he made after staying at a two-year-old drug rehabilitation center.
“When I was freed from the courts at the age of 14, the umbilical cord was separated, and I have not since not so,” he wrote in a 2023 blog post. “It was necessary for me that I could become my own person as my own person. And at the age of 14, my own parents.”
He has already opened his complex relationship with his mother and how he has worked towards reconciliation for years. He also shared that he had financially supported his mother.
“I know it should be so hard for my mother,” she said Vulture In 2023. “It seems that he gets all heartache and (his father) is given a free ticket.”
As a mother, Barrymore has also talked about some upbringing advice that eventually changed her life.
“You especially changed my life,” he has a parenting specialist and psychologist Dr. Told Alija Presmented during an episode Drew Barrymore Show In 2024. “My daughter was Olive, who knows Alija, she was going through a phase, it was years ago, when she got upset, I will try to go to her and I will try to make it better.”
However, this was “the last thing (his daughter) or desired, which was not understood” Barrymore “. “Finally, the Presman taught the actor instead how to” regulate “himself in these moments.
Barrymore said, “You walk in the room and just said: ‘I think we are a moment, I am for you on the other side of this door, waiting. When you are ready, I am here,” Barimore remembered. “And I will go out and take a deep breath. I have got the best results that I have ever received in my parenting and it was never a way I thought I thought.”
