Drew Barrymore was married to Wil Kopelman from 2012 till 2016 and had two children, Olive, 9, and Frankie, 7. Wil is the son of the now retired CEO of Chanel, so you know that was a fun courtship.
Now four years after their divorce, Wil has gotten remarried to Allie Michler and Drew says she feels like she hit the lottery in terms of step moms to her kids.
“I feel like I’m lucky that there’s this new beautiful soul that came into our lives, and I don’t try to be her best friend,” she said. “She knows that I absolutely worship the ground she walks on, and I’m her biggest cheerleader, but I give them space.”
She continued, “We hang out, we do dinners, all the kids’ birthdays. We might take a trip together. We’re finding our way in a beautiful, slow, respectful manner. And I’m just so lucky because she came into Will’s life and got to know my daughters very well and very real, saw all the warts and all the hearts and everything in between. Everybody was like, ‘I choose you.’”
Barrymore shared that Michler, 33, and Kopelman, 43, even joined her and her children for Halloween over the weekend.
“I went trick-or-treating on Sunday with Will and his beautiful wife Allie, my daughters’ wonderful stepmother. I think honestly this is so ideal,” she gushed. “It is the dream. I loved seeing this, I really do. It’s very positive … Because you are never not together if you have children. All the modern family and exes aside, you are just parents. That’s what make sense to me.”
That shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Drew has made an effort to live a peaceful loving life after a long struggle of a childhood. Good for them.