Drew Barrymore doesn't shy away from her struggles. In a new profile for the she talks about how her alcohol intake after her 2016 split from Will Kopelman affected her relationship with her therapist.After a decade of working with Barry Michels, who has been endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow, Barrymore had the psychoanalyst quit on her due to her drinking.«He just said, ‘I can’t do this anymore,'» Barrymore recalls. «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.'»Two of Barrymore's close friends and collaborators are also interviewed for the piece — Nancy Juvonen and Cameron Diaz.Diaz calls Barrymore's post-divorce drinking «difficult to watch.»“But I knew that if we all stuck with her and gave her the support she needed, she would find her way,” Diaz says. “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.”Juvonen, who owns Flower Films with Barrymore and is married to Jimmy Fallon, says that after a «grace period» following Barrymore’s divorce, she and the star’s closest friends rallied together to have a come-to-Jesus talk with her.“We were like, 'You’ve gotta snap out of it,'" says Chris Miller, who worked at Barrymore’s company for 24 years prior to becoming showrunner of in March 2022.
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