DREW BARRYMORE: DIVORCE DESTROYED ME

NEARLY 10 YEARS AFTER THE END OF HER MARRIAGE, THE DAYTIME HOST OPENS UP ABOUT THE DEVASTATING TOLL IT TOOK ON HER.

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LOOKING BACK "There was no scandal, nothing went wrong," the Hollywood Squares star has said of her 2016 divorce from Will Kopelman, adding, "[But that] makes it harder and more confusing, because there isn't the thing to point to."

KNOWN for her just-between us-girls vibe on her daytime talker The Drew Barrymore Show, Drew Barrymore got real when discussing her 2016 divorce from Will Kopelman with recent guests Joy Behar and Susie Essman. Opening up about her heartbreak, the mom to Olive, 12, and 10-year-old Frankie confessed that the split “destroyed” her, admitting that she still hasn’t “fully recovered” from the demise of her four-year marriage to the art consultant — and of her dream to have a secure family unit, lamenting, “I was so invested in that plan.”

While Drew has been enjoying a career resurgence since the chatfest debuted in 2020, her personal life has been less sunny. “Drew went through a painfully dark period when she and Will split up,” an insider tells Star. “There was a lot of guilt because she wanted to give her kids the kind of childhood that she never had, with two parents living together in a happy home.” Post-divorce, the former wild child even reverted to her self-destructive ways. “She felt like a failure,” adds the source. It’s taken years for her to overcome the loss and to build a new relationship with her ex — who welcomed a child with new wife