She opens up about quitting drinking and the family dynamic with her ex's new wife (via TooFab)
The pair, who are parents to daughters Frankie and Olive -- now 8 and 10, respectively -- called it quits after nearly four years of marriage and, looking back, Barrymore said it was almost"more confusing" for her to navigate because there wasn't one big thing that caused the separation.
"There was no scandal. Nothing went wrong, which is cleaner, but makes it harder and more confusing because there isn't The Thing to point to," she told the outlet."We tried so hard to make it work. [A friend] said to me, 'Divorce is the death of a dream.' That's exactly what it feels like, something so final you can't get it back."
Calling the years after her divorce"cripplingly difficult," Barrymore said she coped with it all by turning to alcohol. "It was just trying to numb the pain and feel good -- and alcohol totally did that for me," she said, before comparing the situation to battling addiction as a child. "After the life I planned for my kids didn't work out — I almost think that was harder than the stuff as a kid. It felt a lot more real because it wasn't just me. It was about these kids that I cared so much about," she continued."And then I probably cared so much that I was only giving to them and not taking care of myself. It was a messy, painful, excruciating walk through the fire and come back to life kind of trajectory.
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