Cameron Diaz Says Drew Barrymore’s Struggles With Alcohol Were ‘Difficult to Watch’
usmagazine.comShe gets by with a little help from her friends. Cameron Diaz opened up about Drew Barrymore’s struggles with substance abuse for a new profile about her longtime friend.“[It was] difficult to watch,” Diaz, 50, told the Los Angeles Times earlier this month. “But I knew that if we all stuck with her and gave her the support she needed, she would find her way.”The Something About Mary actress, who has known her Charlie’s Angels costar since she was 14, added: “I have absolute faith in her.
You can’t even comprehend how hard it was to be her as a child, and then she shot out the other end with the ability to save herself.”In the column, Barrymore recalled turning to alcohol amid her divorce from Will Kopelman.
Things got so intense that she said therapist Barry Michels quit on her.“He just said, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ It was really about my drinking.
I said, ‘I get it. I’ve never respected you more. You see I’m not getting better. And I hope, one day, that I can earn your trust back,’” the 50 First Dates star said.Barrymore and Kopelman, who split in 2016 after four years of marriage, share two daughters: Olive, 10, and Frankie, 8.
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