![]() ![]() (Christopher Polk / NBCUniversal via Getty Images) Instead, she found revenue streams outside of Hollywood, creating brands of cosmetics, hair tools and - through a Walmart partnership - aesthetically pleasing kitchenware. She’d stopped acting to give herself more time with her kids. ![]() Barrymore had dreamed of giving their girls, Olive and Frankie, now 10 and 8, the nuclear family she craved. In 2016, she and her husband of four years, art consultant Will Kopelman, divorced. After a turbulent few years, the potential for a stable routine felt like a beacon. (By comparison, “Ellen” drew 1.4 million an episode during its last season.)īarrymore was desperate for the show to work. Reviews described her liveliness as “alarming” and said her celebrity interviews were barely more than “complimentary back-and-forth.” And the ratings were bad: Season 1 averaged 694,000 viewers per episode. She invited Billy Porter to sing “Edelweiss” to a fake flower because, apparently, science says singing to real flowers makes them grow. She nuzzled a bottle of cleaning spray to show her affinity for stain removal. Maybe you won’t get fired.’”īarrymore was making. ![]() It opened up doors inside me that went, ‘It’s OK for you to be silly. “It set me free and stopped me from beating up on myself as much. “Everything shifted in that moment,” said Barrymore, 48. She’d hosted “SNL” six times - and still holds the record for the youngest ever to do it, at age 7. ![]() People who don’t matter don’t get caricatured on national television. She started to laugh and documented herself doing so on Instagram. She resolved to go home and watch it again. Friends, including Jimmy Fallon and Gayle King, had sent texts, saying how great they thought the “SNL” bit was. Something she loved would, yet again, slip away.īarrymore checked her phone again. Her vision of working on a set while raising her kids would evaporate. If she, Drew Barrymore, was the problem, then her show couldn’t be fixed. As she walked by her neighbors’ manicured lawns, in the Hamptons, her mind raced through disaster scenarios. ![]()
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