"I was so invested in that plan," Barrymore said about her relationship with Kopelman, whom she divorced in 2016 after four years of marriage.

According to the Scream actress, she felt like everything she knew in her personal life was ending. She had monumental whiplash after things were finalized that made her question everything, but she was able to pull herself out of it because of her children, as she explained to the AARP:

Drew Barrymore is getting candid about her divorce from Will Kopelman . In a cover story for AARP The Magazine 's February/March 2025 issue, Barrymore, 49, opened up about how she navigated her spit from Kopelman in 2016, following four years of marriage .