"I cognize what that feels like," Drew said. "If I haven't learned from that, past what was it each for? This is simply a family, truthful nobody's going anywhere. I was determined to marque it enactment due to the fact that we each loved each different truthful much."

And though she was determined to support the household unneurotic successful a caller capacity, she called the years to travel "cripplingly difficult," noting that the archetypal wintertime aft leaving California for New York—to beryllium person to Will's family—was peculiarly rough.

"It conscionable took maine down," Drew shared. "There are times wherever you tin look astatine idiosyncratic you deliberation is simply a beardown idiosyncratic and spot them truthful breached and go, 'How the f--k did they get there?' And I was that person. I broke."

However, the Santa Clarita Diet prima admitted to not having the champion coping mechanisms astatine the time.

"It was conscionable trying to numb the symptom and consciousness good—and intoxicant wholly did that for me," Drew recalled. "The drinking happening for maine was a constant, like, 'You cannot change. You are anemic and incapable of doing what's champion for you. You support reasoning you volition maestro this thing, and it's getting the amended of you.' 

But aft spending clip successful therapy and quitting drinking, she put her absorption into creating The Drew Barrymore Show which is presently successful its 3rd season.

"It was my kids that made maine consciousness similar it's crippled time," she revealed, adding that processing the speech amusement "gave maine thing to absorption connected and determination myself into. It gave america thing to judge in."