Actress Drew Barrymore said she’s not embarrassed about being divorced three times; instead, she feels “liberated.”
The 49-year-old discussed her split-ups on an episode of her eponymous talk show this week. The conversation started as she reflected on Jennifer Lopez’s new single, “Can’t Get Enough,” which includes lyrics where Lopez jokes about going down the aisle for the fourth time with her most recent marriage to Ben Affleck.
“I had so much shame around divorce and, for some reason, something happened, and I said, ‘I’m no longer willing to feel this way.’ And it just lifted from me,” Barrymore said of her own experience, per People.
She went on to describe how she sees divorce as preserving “the precious commodity we have on this planet, which is only our time.”
“And when you’re truly in a situation that isn’t functioning the way that, optimally, it hopes and wishes to be, we accept that, and we improve our quality of life by moving forward. Divorce now, to me, I don’t have shame around it. I’m like, totally liberated,” Barrymore added.
The “50 First Dates” star was married to Jeremy Thomas from 1994 until 1995 and then to Tom Green from 2001 until 2002. Barrymore tied the knot with Will Kopelman in 2012 and had two children with him: daughters Olive, 11, and Frankie, 9. The pair split in 2016.
Talk show guest and famed singer Marie Osmond agreed that divorce could be positive.
She said that while she thinks married couples should be “doing everything possible to make a marriage work,” she also stressed that both parties should do the work.
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“I also believe that there are some divorces made in heaven,” Osmond told Barrymore. “In my situation, I divorced at 50 and I had eight children that I needed to support, take care of. I was basically the breadwinner.”
Osmond, 64, was married to Steve Craig from 1982 until 1985 before divorcing. She was married to Brian Blosil from 1986 until 2007. In 2011, she remarried her first husband, and they are still together.
Barrymore concluded the segment by giving Lopez a shoutout, saying, “J-Lo, I love you. I really appreciate, again, [for] you bringing empowerment to where most people go to shame. We’ve all been in it. So, go J-Lo.”