Drew Barrymore Gives Rare Insight Into Her Dating Life and Explains Why She’ll Never Remarry

• Drew Barrymore teared up on her talk show while admitting she “doesn’t know how” to date with kids.

• In a new interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning, she explained why she got so emotional.

• She also shared why she would never get married again.

Drew Barrymore has been single for six years. She’s a parent of two young daughters—Olive, 9, and Frankie, 7—and after spending time solo, she’s making the difficult realization that she’s not sure how to date again.

In a Tuesday interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning, the actress and talk show host divulged her real feelings about putting herself out there and shared how, on The Drew Barrymore Show, the co-hosts of the reality show Queer Eye helped her dip her toes back into the water. And it was a surprisingly emotional experience.

CBS This Morning played a clip from the episode in which Queer Eye designer Bobby Berk sat Barrymore down to give her some tips on Zoom dating. He advised her not to film in her bedroom (with her bed in the background, specifically) if she’s not looking for a hookup, as it gives kind of a “sex forward” message. Drew said that’s definitely not the vibe she’s trying to give off.

“I don’t know how to date with kids, you know, I’m not there yet,” she admitted to Berk, immediately choking back tears. “I have two young girls, and like, I don’t wanna bring people home. I think that it would take me a very long time to meet someone and get to know them before I could ever introduce them to my daughters.”

It doesn’t help that Barrymore watched the father of her kids, Will Kopelman, begin a beautiful new marriage. It’s almost as if she put pressure on herself to do the same.

“My kids’ dad is happily remarried with the most wonderful woman in the world, Allie [Michler]. My children have the most extraordinary stepmom. And our processes have been different,” she explained to King. “Their side of the street has been so functional and whole and happening. And I think I’ve been on the sidelines in a beautiful honoring purgatory.”

That explains why, for a long time, the Scream star thought she wasn’t dating because she didn’t want to. But really, she just didn’t know how to start. Not to mention, the world of online dating and a pandemic complicate things even more.

“I'll go on an occasional date, but that’s only in the last like two years,” Barrymore told King. “It took me four to even step out there. And people have different processes. Then, enter a pandemic.” The 46-year-old admitted that she tends to find Zoom dates “unromantic.”

“They’re a reminder to me of the state of the world we’re living in,” she added.

Still, Barrymore is willing to give them a shot because well, it’s basically her only option right now. So, to make it easier, four of the Queer Eye Fab Five—Berk, Jonathan Van Ness, Tan France, and Antoni Porowski—sat in on one with a chef named Sam Talbot. They were there for moral support and even came armed with cue cards, all of which was caught on camera for Barrymore’s talk show:

The date seemed to go really well, and Barrymore said they even exchanged text messages afterward. But she admitted to King that she’s in no way looking for a fourth marriage. (She was previously married to Kopelman, as well as Tom Green, whom she divorced in 2002, and Jeremy Thomas, whom she divorced in 1995.)

“Oh god no. Never,” she said of getting married again. “There’s no reason to be. I would maybe live with someone again, maybe. But I’ve had kids, and there’s no way. I will never ever ever get married again.”

She said she would, however, be open to a “promise ceremony” that “negates legality” and still displays a profession of love before friends and family.

But she has a while to think about those details. For now, there are a lot more dates to be had—without the cue cards. On CBS This Morning, she compared herself to the other Queer Eye “heroes,” whom the Fab Five give makeovers to help them find their confidence.

“We’re trying to get into our bravery,” she said. “It’s as simple as that.”

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