While Drew Barrymore once told Good Housekeeping, “I am who I am because of my daughters,” that doesn’t mean it’s all been smooth-sailing. There is a special kind of excitement around announcing a pregnancy, but with a life filled with paparazzi, sometimes that decision is ripped away. Barrymore and political staffer Huma Abedin recently bonded over issues with media leaks. On the January 25 episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” the host explained that as soon as she walked out of her OB/GYN and learned she was pregnant, calls came in informing her team, “We know she’s pregnant. We’re breaking the story.”
“I was stupid enough to carry the sonogram in my hand out with me,” Barrymore recalled, per People. “I was depressed or saddened, kind of, that I didn’t get to have that be a private thing, a moment, or just to wrap my head around it.” Her guest could relate: “I was so shattered, I was so broken by not being able to share what for me was a once in a lifetime gift.” Abedin shared that she still occasionally says out loud, “I’m pregnant,” for the simple fact that she “never got to say it before.”
Her teary admission hit Barrymore in a powerful way. The host explained more about her PTSD of having her “deepest, darkest secrets” found out back when she was 13 years old. “It’s so traumatizing.” Even the thought of someone catching the star drinking makes her think, “I’m going to lose my career,” but Barrymore moves forward, handling these invasive moments as best she can.
