“Alcohol is your paramedic in an emergency…” sang Herbert Grönemeyer in 1984. But trying to drown your sorrow in hard liquor and find solace is tempting for many – at least for the moment.
Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore (47) already used alcohol and drugs when she was a child star, but has been clean for many years.
Ex-child star Drew Barrymore can look back on an eventful life
Now, in an interview with People Magazine, the star confesses that she’s had a relapse. Shortly after their divorce.
When Barrymore and husband Will Kopelman split in 2016, the actress was completely crushed. In the interview, she speaks of an agonizing separation that broke her mentally.
So broken that the mother of two picked up the bottle again and looked for support in her old enemy, alcohol.
The 47-year-old describes the situation six years ago as follows: “Drinking was a constant for me. Sentences like ‘You can’t change. You are weak and unable to do what is best for you. You always think you’ll master it’ just overwhelm you.”
Barrymore rose to fame as a seven-year-old with the classic film ET
Speaking of her alcohol relapse, Drew Barrymore says, “After the family life I had planned for my children failed, it was a messy, painful, agonizing way of going through the fire and coming back to life.”
She changed her attitude because of her two children. It is thanks to them that she quickly went into therapy and has now overcome her alcohol problems.
Drew Barrymore has her own podcast where she talks about everyday things with other celebrities
A year ago, the American spoke on a morning show about what it’s like to be sober. At that point, it had been two and a half years that she hadn’t picked up a bottle. She wrote her story entitled ‘Liberating Sobriety’ as an essay for her own magazine called Drew.
In it, she advised those affected: “One of the bravest things you can do is slay that dragon and finally change this horrible cycle that you’ve been stuck in. I am finally free from the agony of guilt and dysfunction.”
