Native Angeleno Drew Barrymore pulled up stakes and moved to New York for her girls. 'I hysterically sobbed,' she said. 'I did not want to move here.'
At 48, Drew Barrymore has survived divorce, quitting alcohol and leaving her beloved Los Angeles. Now she’s trying to embrace herself as she forges ahead in a new direction — talk show host.“I had been coming to New York since 1982. But I’ve always felt like it’s like plugging into a light socket,” Barrymore, 48, told Kaufman. “When I was a kid, I totally loved Times Square because it looked just like Hollywood Boulevard, and I grew up right off that.
“You know, many of them were taboo with the X-rated movie theaters, and, you know, the sort of more tawdry side of life. But that felt safe and familiar to me, because that was what was in my backyard of West Hollywood.”On her daytime show, Drew Barrymore brings up what happened that time Ellen DeGeneres claimed she wasn’t invited to Dakota Johnson’s birthday party.
But New York was just a “playground that I would stay at for periods of time,” she said, and she would “run back” to L.A. She never felt like New York was home.“I think it took selling my house in Los Angeles to realize like, this is all you have now. This is what you have,” Barrymore said. “And this is where you are. So you need to embrace it in a way you’ve never really been able to.”At 48, Drew Barrymore has survived divorce, quitting alcohol and leaving her beloved Los Angeles.
Moving from the 8,000-square-foot home she had owned since 2002 wasn’t easy. Most of her friends were in L.A. The only “unit” she had in New York was her ex’s family. is my one constant. It’s where I grew up as a little baby. And it’s where I lived until I moved here and had to sell my house. It was so hard.
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