Drew Barrymore Opens Up About Her Journey To Sobriety

Daytime talk shows are usually all fun and games. They feature heavy on the entertainment. It’s not often that they go into some very heavy topics.

But for actress Drew Barrymore, things were a little different went she went on as a guest on CBS This Morning.

Barrymore – who is no stranger to talk shows as she actually has her own talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show – was giving an interview to CBS and did not hold back from sharing intimidate details regarding her personal life.

Barrymore had been discussing a recent interview she conducted on her own show, which featured Machine Gun Kelly. Barrymore had long been a fan of Kelly’s and had been trying for a while to get an interview with him – not easy as Kelly doesn’t enjoy doing many interviews. However, she managed to secure his appearance by having him promote his new unisex nail polish line. But then things got real during the interview.

Kelly opened up to Barrymore while giving her a manicure, and he talked at length about his own struggles with always appearing happy in front of his fans. Kelly stated, “I kind of am sick of smiling on days when I don’t feel like smiling, and I feel like this odd pressure because I don’t want my fans to think that I’m taking something for granted. A lot of what I do is for other people, and I haven’t given myself the time to just accept that it’s ok to not be ok.”

Rather than trying to steer the conversation back to a lighter topic, Barrymore leaned in and opened up about some of her own struggles, including her “painful divorce,” which caused her to take a break to travel to Utah in order to “talk to some people about how to pull myself out of a hole.”

While her own talk show segment was quite insightful, Barrymore proved she wasn’t finished with personal confessions when she went on CBS This Morning. While on that talk show, Barrymore would go on to make another surprising admission when she revealed, “I’m going to say something for the first time in a long time. I have not had a drink of alcohol in two and a half years.”

Barrymore then added, “It was something that I realized just did not serve me in my life. When you are stuck in a pattern or if you are going through things and you not only admit them out loud, but you force yourself to say, ‘I’m willing to make big changes’—I think we all think we’re very weak when we don’t make those changes. When you break that cycle, the empowerment that comes out of it. I’m not weak. I’m actually strong. I’ve proven to myself that I am capable of change. I believe people are capable of big changes.”

It was a very honest moment, and Barrymore was willing to admit that her sobriety journey was one that she did “quietly and privately.” She also did it all on her own willpower and did not seek professional help with her sobriety. The vulnerable moment was finished off by Barrymore explaining her journey’s conclusion by saying, “Now it’s been long enough that I’m in a lifestyle where I know is really working on a high road for my little journey. And there’s so much peace finally being had where there were demons.”

Congrats, Drew on two years of sobriety!