Drew Barrymore candidly opened up about her intercourse life, revealing she will be able to go ‘years’ with out doing the deed.
Her frank confession got here after Andrew Garfield spoke about ‘abstaining’ from intercourse for six months on the run as much as his position as a Jesuit priest within the 2016 film Silence. Set within the seventeenth century, the actor made certain he acquired into character by altering plenty of life-style habits, creating new rituals and going ‘celibate’ for half a 12 months.
However Barrymore wasn’t too impressed and stated she felt as if six months ‘wasn’t that lengthy’.
Talking about Garfield’s revelations throughout an episode of The Drew Barrymore Present in 2022, she requested co-host Ross Matthews: “What’s fallacious with me that six months doesn’t seem to be a really very long time? I used to be like, ‘Yeah so?’”
Matthews joked he ‘abstained’ from intercourse for his ‘total twenties’ however was trumped by Barrymore and jibed: “We buried the lede there, that’s the headline. Drew can go six months, no huge deal.”
The talkshow host then added: “Oh, years.”
The mum-of-two’s confession is a far cry from her position as Dylan Sanders in Charlie’s Angels, a captivating and flirtatious detective.
Followers had been fast to chime in with their ideas, as one particular person quipped on X: “Completely nothing is fallacious with you @DrewBarrymore. I’ve by no means actually had a excessive libido and intercourse isn’t one thing I actually ‘crave.’ Additionally, I haven’t had a accomplice in a number of years, so there’s that. Can we cease intercourse shaming individuals? And this goes for all ends of the spectrum.”
Nevertheless, one other claimed they might ‘shrivel up and die’ in the event that they went even ‘two weeks’ with out intercourse.
However a 3rd added: “Btw Drew… I gotcha beat !!!!!! I’ve gone longer than 6 months earlier than. I have not had intercourse in 7 years so do not feel unhealthy.”
In a put up on her blog, Barrymore opened up in regards to the feedback she made on her present, writing: “Since getting into life as a single mum, I’ve not been capable of have an intimate relationship.
“I’m not an individual who wants intercourse and has to go on the market and interact with individuals on that degree. A relationship with a person has not been high of thoughts for me for a really very long time.”
She went on to make clear: “I’ve simply lastly come to the epiphany that love and intercourse are merely not the identical factor. For the report, I don’t hate intercourse!”
It comes as Barrymore’s firm, Flower Movies, will produce a brand new Charlie’s Angels film, 25 years after she starred within the remake alongside Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu in 2000.
The movie was a significant field workplace success and helped solidify Barrymore’s standing in her manufacturing firm as one of many movie’s producers.
In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, Barrymore will assist carry collectively a brand new model of Charlie’s Angels, written by Pete Chiarelli, the scribe behind the Ryan Reynolds-Sandra Bullock romantic comedy The Proposal in addition to the difference of Loopy Wealthy Asians.
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