The funny woman has been a successful businesswoman, actress, and mother -- and that is enough for her.
Throughout her life, the bubbly Drew Barrymore never fell out of the idea of love. Years of heartbreak, however, has made her enjoy her singlehood and independence. She rose to fame early in life and has been working almost all of it. A product of a broken home, she just wanted to give her daughters a stable home but she realized that she and her ex were just too different.
The 43-year-old spent Valentine's Day alone this year and instead of feeling sad for herself, she reveled in her independence, according to Metro UK. She chose to share the love within her for her friends and family profusely instead.
In an Instagram post, she said, "I love my friends. I love my children first of course, but this day is just about love period. And if you don’t have it with a romantic partner (I’m single and have not been able to successfully date for almost four years so what do I know you ask?) I believe with all my heart in the human heart. There are just good days and bad days. Really difficult, test-your-will-to-live days. And days where you feel so alive your skin tingles and your smile might just rip your face apart until it floats right up into heaven and you want skywrite about how goddamn happy you are!!!!! But the constant love usually has been my kids and my friends."
The strong actress, author, and businesswoman continued, "A type of love that does not require a romantic partnership and navigation... I have fought my way to a deeper happiness on my own, and I love being independent! It just rules. I am also lucky enough to have two young amazing kids and a full-time job, and rad friends. So I’m not sitting around bummed out. I feel stupid grateful. But I’m still a romantic at heart. As for today, don’t waste the day being sad about what you don’t have! Be happy about what you do have. It’s there. I promise."
Drew had fallen for art consultant Will Kopelman since he was the kind of stable man she never had in her life before. "It was never really love at first sight," she said in the November 2015 issue of In Style. "Will struck a lot of my pragmatic sides. He was someone who was always reachable on the phone, someone who was a classy human being, someone who had this incredible blueprint of a family that I don't have."
"We've made many compromises and concessions, but when it comes to how we deliver likes and dislikes, we're polar opposites. It's still really hard," she added, according to Entertainment Online.
The couple are not on bad terms and are still co-parenting their children. Unlike her childhood, she wants the best for her children and has kept the process peaceful. She has become a hands-on and devoted mother to her children, and wants to shield them from all the unpleasantness she faced growing up.
Since her separation from husband Will Kopelman, with whom she has two daughters, Olive and Frankie, in 2016, she has struggled with dating, but she has not lost hope. There have been suitors as well but nothing stuck. In February 2018, she received flowers from a secret suitor. “I did receive some flowers today and that was very nice,” she told Us at the time. “I shan’t say [who from], but we can say they were flowers sent to me out of love, so that was nice.”
Despite being from one of the most talked-about Hollywood families -- she is the granddaughter of John Barrymore -- a happy home is not something she has experienced. She tried her best to stay together with her ex but her heart was more free-spirited. She also wanted to give a stable home for her children since her parents divorced when she was nine. Her relationship with her parents was also frayed since she got emancipated at 16.
A source reportedly told EOnline, "Drew felt, after dating so many guys who were wrong for her, that he (Will) would be good for her. But she kind of always had a feeling it might not be forever. Then they had kids and she stuck it out for them. Because of what she went through as a child, she didn't want to break the family up."
After being in a romantic relationship almost all her life "now she feels like she needs to live her own life". And, she deserves it too!
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