Drew Barrymore feared cringe Kamala Harris interview would ‘tarnish’ VP’s career: ‘Sick to my stomach’

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was deemed cringe by many viewers.Barrymore explained that she wanted her chat with Harris, 59, “to be a more personal experience” where she could “disarm” Donald Trump’s presidential opponent, according to Entertainment Weekly.“I want to take the armor off.

This isn’t about talking about issues like that. This is not the place for that,” she said.“All I kept thinking was, if you do one thing to screw up this woman’s path — and you are the clown to do it — and if you do one thing that makes her look bad, or becomes a gap, or just does something to … [interviewing] is such an art,” the host of “The Drew Barrymore Show” continued.“How do you get so personal?

I’ve never … that’s the scariest conversation I’ve done on the entire show’s history,” she added.Barrymore went on, “I was like, if I tarnish this woman … I wanted to see her be fun and disarmed, but I was like, what if I do one thing that’s goofy and she plays along, and I’ve led her down a bad path?”“That was making me so sick to my stomach,” Barrymore admitted, “but I wasn’t going to give up trying to [do it].”However, Barrymore said the “good news” for her was that Harris was vulnerable during their one-on-one chat.“It was an electric connection,” the “E.T.” star said. “It was one of the most ignited, exciting experiences of my life, and it was about something that she lives every day, which is how to not get it wrong.” The awkward exchange between Barrymore and Harris on the former’s CBS talk show in the spring went viral for all the wrong reasons.