- I am honored to welcome her to the show Elaine Welteroth.
(audience applauds)
- Drew Barrymore, is this really happening?
I'm freaking out right now.
- Okay, so for a little backstory,
Elaine and I first met when you were a beauty editor
at Teen Vogue. - Yes.
And it was love at first sight for me.
- It was love at first sight for me too.
I was really new you at that point in the beauty game.
I had been doing Cover Girl for years
as a co-creative director, but you made me feel so welcomed.
When we're trying to do something new it's intimidating
and the more support and encouragement you have
to be reminded, go for it.
So that was something that I always loved about you.
And then you became the youngest editor in chief
in Conde Nast history
when you became the editor in chief of Teen Vogue.
- Yeah, but I would actually like to say,
I'm very proud that I am no longer
the youngest editor in chief in Conde Nast history.
There's actually an even younger black woman,
who is now the editor in chief of Teen Vogue,
after I departed that role.
She's killing it.
Her name is Lindsay Peoples Wagner.
I think it's so important we celebrate firsts,
but I think it's so important to remember
the responsibility is to make sure
that you're never the last.
I think you feel that pressure to make sure
that you do the job in a way that keeps the door open
and widens that pipeline.
- So one of the last times I saw you
was at the Goop panel.
- Yes.
- In my mind I kept thinking,
what is Elaine's next act going to be?
And I had this divine intervention
and I was like, Elaine Welteroth is literally going to be
this huge figure on television, I just know it
because you have so much to offer.
- The fact that I'm sitting
on the Drew Barrymore Show right now
and that you're telling me this
just feels like a weird fever dream.
I'm like this can't be real.
- I'm just excited 'cause it turns out I'm totally psychic.
I'm not kidding, I saw you, I was like,
she's gonna be a big talk show host.
And I just think it's the perfect Elaine Welteroth fit.
- Well, I think it's the perfect Drew Barrymore fit as well.
- I did not have a psychic moment about myself.
I can't believe I'm here.
That one I wouldn't have guessed.
- I'm so beyond like mind blown and honored
and it still doesn't even feel real
that I'm going to have this opportunity as well
to just have conversations that matter,
to cultivate connection every single day
on national television.
I'm so over the moon and so grateful to have that chance.
So it's exciting.
And I'm grateful that you,
I can't believe you're tellin' me you had this vision.
- I not only had the vision,
but then you were doing some fun stuff on Kelly and Ryan.
And I was like, this, this, I'm not kidding, like I-
- I will tell you that day,
I remember seeing you at the panel, it was the Goop panel
and Gwyneth Paltrow was up there and had us all together.
It was such a scary time for me.
I had decided I was leaving Teen Vogue
and I had this big vision in my mind about what I saw
but no one else did.
But I knew even at that point,
I thought like the worst thing would be to feel stuck
in an identity that someone else
or that the world put me in, like a box that I was put in.
- I was nervous to try and get into a beauty game.
Nothing compared to my fear about starting this job.
And it's changed me in ways I could have never expected.
It's gonna be honestly I think,
one of the most important years of my entire life
and listen, you're on "The Talk", I'm on here.
We're a CBS Studios-owned show, you're CBS.
We were sisters in beauty and may we be sisters
in the talk show world, because you are someone
that is one of my favorite,
you're just one of my favorite people.
So let's be sisters in talk shows.
- Let's be sisters, yes.
- I just wanna congratulate CBS
for making one of its smartest decisions.
- Thank you.
I just have no words.
You have made me for the first time in my life, speechless.
So thank you.
- That takes a lot. - And you made
a brown girl blush.
- I'm gonna get up and give you a virtual hug.
- Yes, you know what? I have a hug.
Oh, oh, oh, my neck thingy.
- Are you stuck here?
That's okay, I'll come to you.
There we go.
- Wait, wait, oh my God.
- I can never line up.
Now I've got my arms crawling out of the back of you.
- Wait Drew, we have to do my quarantine hug.
Are you ready?
- I am ready, teach me Elaine.
- Okay, turn around.
Come closer to me, let's connect butts.
Okay, yes, and then we just go like this.
(audience laughs)
- I love it.
- This is my quarantine hug for all the people I love
that I can't touch.
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