Drew Barrymore’s alcohol struggles ‘tough’

Cameron Diaz says she gave Drew Barrymore “the help she wanted” throughout the discuss present host’s struggles with alcohol.

The newly unretired actress admitted the expertise was “tough to observe” in a Los Angeles Times profile on her “Charlie’s Angels” co-star revealed Sunday.

“I knew that if all of us caught together with her and gave her the help she wanted, she would discover her approach,” Diaz, 50, added, saying she has “absolute religion” in Barrymore’s restoration.

“You can’t even comprehend how laborious it was to be her as a baby, after which she shot out the opposite finish with the flexibility to save lots of herself,” she continued.

Barrymore, 48, revealed in December 2021 that she had been sober for 2 and a half years.

The following 12 months, she confessed to ingesting closely to “numb the ache” of her 2016 divorce from her third husband, Will Kopelman.

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Barrymore wed the artwork guide, 44, in 2012, and so they at the moment co-parent daughters Olive, 10, and Frankie, 8.

“The ingesting factor for me was a continuing,” she informed People in December 2022 of the fallout of their “excruciating” breakup.

“It simply took me down,” the “Never Been Kissed” star, who first went to rehab when she was 13, defined. “It was simply making an attempt to … really feel good — and alcohol completely did that for me.”

In truth, her post-divorce ingesting turned so intense that Barrymore’s therapist Barry Michaels give up.

“He simply stated, ‘I can’t do that anymore,’” she defined within the new LA Times story. “I stated, ‘I get it. … You see I’m not getting higher. And I hope, at some point, that I can earn your belief again.’”

Although Barrymore’s associates and Michaels referred to as her out on her habit, she didn’t cease ingesting till she filmed the primary episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show” in 2019.

“I feel the chance at a present like this actually hit me,” she defined within the profile. “I used to be like, ‘I can’t deal with this until I’m in a extremely clear place.’

“I stored pondering, ‘I’ll grasp this. I’ll determine it out,’” the “E.T.” star continued. “And lastly, I simply realized: ‘You’ve by no means mastered this, and also you by no means will.’”