Overview
- Barrymore brought the woman from the audience onto The Drew Barrymore Show in a Wednesday episode to confirm they first met about four years earlier on a flight.
- The flight attendant told Barrymore she had found the actress crying in the plane’s galley and sat with her while Barrymore “cried and cried.”
- Barrymore said that encounter happened “the year I stopped drinking” and stressed that quitting alcohol did not instantly resolve other problems and requires ongoing work.
- The pair embraced on air as Barrymore thanked the woman, said “I love you,” asked to keep in touch and received applause from the studio audience.
- The reunion echoes Barrymore’s earlier public writing about sobriety in Drew magazine and reinforces how small acts of compassion can shape recovery and open public talk about addiction.