Drew Barrymore Details “Painful” Fallout From Will Kopelman Divorce

And Drew, who was freed from her parents at 14, was determined to be the best mother she could be-even if that meant going solo for a while.

“I was in my early 40s, not learning how to be my own healthy, independent individual, how to be the parent I dream of being,” she said. “Being other people doesn’t help me figure that out now. And the long hours of doing movies were hours I wouldn’t have with my kids. I wouldn’t do that.”

When it comes to the end of Drew and Will’s four-year marriage, Drew expressed that it did not just come out of one great tribulation.

“There was no scandal,” she recounted People in 2022. “Nothing went wrong, which is cleaner, but makes it more difficult and more confusing because there is no thing to point to. We tried so hard to work.”

Indeed, the 49-year-old admitted that the years after her divorce proved to be a very difficult chapter in her life.