Cameron Diaz says Drew Barrymore’s bout with booze was “hard to watch”.
The 50-year-old actress, who starred with her longtime friend Drew, 48, in ‘Charlie’s Angels’ following being her friend since the 1990s, struggled to watch her girlfriend slip into depression and l alcohol following she divorced her third husband Will Kopelman, 44, in 2016.
Cameron told the LA Times that his friends staged a “quasi-response” to try to rescue Drew from the abyss: “I knew that if we were all with her and gave her the support she needed, she would find her path.
“I have absolute faith in her. You can’t even understand how hard it was to be her when she was little, and then she popped up from the other side with the ability to save herself- even”.
Cameron added that Drew’s problems got worse when her therapist, Barry Michels, stopped treating her: He just said, “I can’t do this anymore.” It was really because of my drinking.
I said, “I get it. I’ve never respected you so much. You see I’m not better. And I hope that one day I can regain your trust.”
Drew, who has daughters Olive, 10, and Frankie, 8, with Will, was married to the latter in 2012 and, following turning to drinking to numb the pain of their separation, said she finally decided to quit alcohol in 2019 when she started hosting her TV series “The Drew Barrymore Show.”
She said, “I think the opportunity for a show like this really hit me. I was like, ‘I can’t handle this if I’m not in a really clear state.’
It wasn’t her first battle with drinking, as at the age of just 13 she entered rehab for drug and alcohol abuse, before attempting suicide a year later and to go back to rehab,
