Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Drew Barrymore broke down in tears on her chat show on Wednesday (12.08.26), as she was reunited with a flight attendant who had comforted her on her journey to sobriety.
The 51-year-old actress struggled to control her emotions as an audience member she’d met four years ago opened up about their first encounter.
The flight attendant told Drew: “When I met you, you were crying in my galley. And we sat in my galley, and you cried and cried because you were going through so much. You were just bawling, and I just was holding you.”
Drew then made her way into the audience to sit with the woman, as she gave her a hug and tearfully recalled: “That was a really, really hard year; it was actually the year I stopped drinking.
“When you stop drinking, it’s not like all your problems go away; there’s still a ton of work to be done.”
Drew then addressed the audience, as she added: “I knew for me that was my number one problem in life. Alcohol was a poison for me, and I turned to it because I didn’t want to feel. I felt better when I drank, so I would turn to it.”
As for the airline employee, Drew said she was “gonna need” her phone number, before telling her: “There was a reason we met that day; thank you for letting me be so honest and transparent with you then, and thank you for being that with me now.
“I love you, and I’m so glad we’re here today talking about this.”
Drew pulled the woman in for another tearful hug as the audience clapped and cheered.
It’s not the first time Drew has opened up about her journey to sobriety – she previously spoke about it in an essay she wrote for her magazine Drew.
In it, she called giving up alcohol “one of the most liberating things in my journey of life”, and said she’s finally been able to free herself from the “torture of guilt and dysfunction”.
