Barrymore’s honesty is so important for anyone caught in the wreckage of a difficult breakup, with no idea how to break free. As she says, feeling guilt, frustration or remorse is all part of the journey: but that doesn’t make the decision to split up – or the subsequent pain that you feel – any less valid.

The experience may even shift your entire life outlook; as Barrymore notes, “I don’t think I’ve recovered [from divorce]”. But you just have to have faith that, with time, you will find a route though to a new and different way of being.

“It’s amazing that my kids and I are happy,” Barrymore says now. “Because there’s been a lot of times I really did question, like, ‘will we be happy?’ and we are. So that chokes me up.”

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Going through a tough breakup? You need to hear Drew Barrymore’s wise words on the intensity of divorce