drew barrymore was seven years old when
the movie
e.t was released in 1982 she starred as
an
impossibly cute little girl named gertie
and the movie became one of the most
successful
and iconic in the history of hollywood
drew is the first to say becoming that
famous
that young was complicated for four
decades the public has watched her every
move under the celebrity spotlight
from great success as an actor producer
and director
to personal struggles splashed out into
the open
today drew is the mother of two young
girls and now the host
of her own talk show drew joined me from
her glittering new studio for a virtual
sunday sit down
with her dog douglas at her side
drew it's so great to see you thanks for
doing this it's always so great to see
willie
the official highly coveted drew
barrymore show mug
well i happen to have the biggest mug in
town
and it's the willie geist mug i think
we're the inverse of each other too
we're white with yellow and you're
yellow with white that's perfect cheers
cheers to you congratulations on the
show
thank you i can't believe we're here
after more than 40 years
on screen doing good drew barrymore
is taking on a new role as daytime
tv host drew this is the one month
anniversary of the first day of your
show you know we all
like feel like we've been in it for a
while so it's actually nice to hear
we're a month old because that makes us
feel youthful again
the 45 year old launched the drew
barrymore show
in september after more than a year of
developing the idea
and then making some changes for the age
of covid19 our virtual friends
so what was it like for you to finally
go out
and do that first real show well
apparently i was really excited
i'm surprised i didn't just come out and
like explode all over the floor
i think i am ridiculously goofy
over enthusiastic i love everything i
over
talk and i dance around and i'm a total
spaz and
even station managers were like wow
she's really enthusiastic week one i got
like
notes and stuff i'm like oh god i
drew know i want to see what people are
doing
that isn't mean or cruel or that people
are angry about
that's why i built in drew's news to the
pilot a year and a half ago because i
was like
i just want a good news channel
this is true's news comedy was a big
part for me i was like everybody gets to
have fun
in late night let's bring that to
daytime it's taco news day
in the ultimate comedy compliment
saturday night live
already has taken an interest in drew's
new show
it's the drew barrymore show how do you
do my biggest fear with chloe feynman is
that
she's gonna know how much i love her and
not be interested in like
touching me as a an impersonation
anymore
hello to all my beautiful wild flowers
i'm actually just happy she knows who i
am really
and by the way nailed it it's so true
she really has me down
as i'm like yeah
but the schedule of a daily talk show is
no joke
as drew hustles to put on five new hours
every week have you gotten into that
rhythm over this first month
yeah i absolutely but i always feel like
every day i'm gonna get fired i'm
positive of it it's so intimidating
because the more you care about
something the more you're afraid of it
going away
drew begins her new job with a built-in
connection to the audience
established over a lifetime in the
public eye
she has been open over the years about
her own struggles
including the legal emancipation from
her parents at just 14 years old
and her divorce four years ago from will
koppelman
the father of her daughters frankie and
olive
i mean part of this job as you're saying
is just sort of opening up your life and
being honest and sharing do you feel
comfortable with that side of it
i don't think i would have been able to
talk about it as
openly at first because i couldn't make
sense of it
i i really did not take divorce well
i i took it really hard but
the good news is that his family and i
sort of made the most important choice
to be
so together and united and connected
that's i guess what they call family i
know from not growing up with any family
whatsoever
that that was the last thing i wanted to
do for
my daughters i think that's why i took
it so hard was like ugh the ultimate
promise i wanted to make
with you and for you was to have this
amazing family
and i found them and there's something
not working
that isn't livable how tragic is that
it took me five years to be able to
speak with strength
articulation perspective hindsight
and see everything we did right because
when we were getting divorced it felt
like
everything was just wrong i think it
applies to everyone
who thinks that something will be
forever
and it's not it's so hard it's like
i don't think i've recovered from that i
don't know how to open that up again
it's like something closed and it stayed
closed
i think i'm equally as scared to find
love again
as i would be as if it never happened we
have
mutual friends who talk about you as a
mom
olive and frankie and say you're just
the best how do they like mama's talk
show host this life
they're really like cool with things
it was interesting because when they
were younger this whole life
of mine didn't sit as well with them and
now it's the exact
opposite and like divorce things
fell into place finally but it's amazing
that like my kids and i are happy
because there's been a lot of times i
really dig questions like
will we be happy and we are so that
like chokes me up my girls are happy
i'm happy i feel really lucky also
just to have a job right now and this is
an incredible job and the fact that
we're all here in the studio working
is something i just don't lose sight of
on a daily basis
well drew i'm so proud of you and so
happy for you're doing great
i thank you for having me on i can't
believe i'm on a willie geist like
interview i'm like
really you're a repeat guest by the way
there's a short list of two timers
you're on it well i will do time
any time for you that doesn't sound
right but you know what i mean
i will double down i will drink this
giant barrel of happiness thank you
willie
cheers
i mean it is a giant mug of happiness
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