Drew Barrymore Clarifies Misconceptions About No-Intercourse Life-style

Final month, everybody’s favourite dance-in-the-rain celebrity, Drew Barrymore, raised a number of eyebrows when she revealed on her discuss present final month that she will be able to go “years” with out intercourse. And she will be able to! However not as a result of she hates it altogether.

In a brand new weblog put up, Barrymore opens up about her “no intercourse” life-style, and admitted she hasn’t had intercourse with anybody since her 2016 divorce from her ex-husband Will Kopelman. The 2 share two younger daughters collectively.

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“I’m not an individual who wants intercourse and has to go on the market and have interaction with individuals on that stage,” she wrote in a blog post over the weekend. “I’m somebody who’s deeply dedicated to fostering how younger ladies, my daughters, and myself as a girl, are imagined to perform on this world!”

“Some individuals can get out of a wedding or relationship and within the close to future discover themselves in one other relationship,” wrote Barrymore. “There’s nothing improper with that! Not one bit. I don’t decide! I have a good time their journey! As a result of for some individuals that basically works. It didn’t work for me.”

Her ex-husband is at present re-married to Vogue’s style director, Alexandra Michler.

Drew Barrymore’s rollercoaster childhood is fairly well-known amongst most—she shot to stardom as a toddler and comes from an extended, lengthy line of Hollywood Barrymores. Her mother and father, Jaid and John, have been overtly negligent whereas elevating their daughter, and Barrymore has even mentioned her mom’s abusive nature on her present. She spiraled into medication and alcohol at simply 13 years outdated. By 14, she was staying in a psychiatric establishment after her mother put her there. After a yr and a half, she legally emancipated herself from her mother and father.

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In her put up, she writes that she typically confused intercourse and love as a result of she was by no means taught about intimacy rising up.

She says it is now very clear that “love and intercourse aren’t the identical factor.” She “engaged in grown up methods since a young age,” she mentioned, as a result of she “didn’t have function mannequin mother and father.”

“And since getting into life as a single mother, I’ve not been in a position to have an intimate relationship,” she writes. “I’ve had the honour and a pleasure to truly work on myself and study what parenting is, once more one thing I used to be not precisely clear on rising up and I’ve had many studying curves thrown my means.”

And whereas she’s now dedicated to elevating her daughters and educating them find out how to “love themselves” and what true intimacy is, she nonetheless desires everybody to know that none of that makes her actually anti-sex.

“So for the file, I don’t hate intercourse!” Barrymore wrote. “I’ve simply lastly come to the epiphany that love and intercourse are merely not the identical factor. I searched my entire life for, which is to be a relaxed girl and never a bombastic get together lady.”