Drew Barrymore: You lack a traditional family dynamics

The divorce from Will Kopelman (46) was nine years ago. In a new episode of the Drew Barrymore (50) with Moon Zappa (57) about their book “Earth to Moon”, which is about becoming parents without having a timetable. While the two talk about their family dynamics, the actress told about the upbringing of her two girls and her worries as a single mother.

Barrymore asks her guest: “Do you think that we are so determined to be these capable mothers, these responsible, these trustworthy ones … and have you got ready on the way there because of every little thing?” Zappa confirms this and Barrymore reports on her daughters Olive (12), and Frankie (10), whose custody, shares her with her ex-husband. “Everything was very devastating for me and it took me a long time to recover because there was no traditional family dynamics that I swore to have for my family because I didn’t grow up,” said Barrymore.

When she talked about the lack of stability in her family life, the actress remembers that she was jealous of other children whose parents were more committed: “It is as strange stuff as soup when you are sick. I remember that all children at school went into the office to call their parents when they were sick and I could never achieve someone. Papa, comes to pick me up. ‘ I just sat there and asked myself: ‘How is that?’ “

In 2016, Barrymore and Kopelman divorced. The break had thrown her out of the track, as she revealed in 2022: “After the family life that I had planned for my children had failed, it was a chaotic, painful, painful way to go through the fire and to wake up again.” She had put everything back on for her little family: “I really love that everything revolves around the children. This may be my balance because I didn’t have a real parents and no real childhood myself,” said the 50-year-old in “People” in 2015.