Drew Barrymore has opened up about her sobriety journey, revealing that she's now been sober for over two years for the first time in "a long time".
During an interview on CBS Mornings, the actress spoke about her personal struggles after interviewing Machine Gun Kelly about mental health during a recent episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.
"I've been very private about a lot of my struggles," the actress and TV host said. "I'm going to say something for the first time in a long time: I have not had a drink of alcohol in two and a half years."
Barrymore was speaking with morning show co-hosts Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil, and Nate Burleson about her recent chat with Machine Gun Kelly.
She told them she had a whole segment planned for her episode with Kelly, but tossed the plan out the window when Kelly opened up about his own mental health struggles.
She said she had been "stuck in a pattern" and feeling like she was "not capable of change".
"And when you break that cycle, the empowerment that comes out of it and says, ‘I’m not weak, I’m actually strong’, I’ve proven to myself that I’m capable of change," Barrymore said.
Revealing that she divulged that she hadn't drank alcohol over the last two and a half years, she said: "It was something I realized just does not serve me in my life."
When asked by CBS what the difference was in herself before sobriety, Barrymore turned to a favorite quote of hers.
"I love this quote: 'Insecurity is loud, confidence is quiet,'" she said.
"This was something I didn't talk to people about for years because it was this quiet, confident journey of just going, 'I just want to figure this out and go about this with no profession, no public anything. Let me do this quietly and privately.' And now it's been long enough where I know I'm in a lifestyle that is really working on a high road."
"I just wanted to go about this with no profession, no public anything," Barrymore said. "And now it’s been long enough where I’m in a lifestyle which I know is really working on a high road for my little journey. There’s so much peace finally being had where there were demons."
She also discussed unrealistic expectations set by social media, adding that she thinks there could soon be a "revolt against the perfection".
"I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a revolt against the perfection right now that we are all forced to see and feel through social media. We’re in an impasse and a crux of a moment, we’re talking about how we figure ourselves out, how we fix ourselves takes a journey and solutions," she said.