Drew Barrymore opens up to Matthew McConaughey about the 'worst decade of my life': 'I made a lot of mistakes' Emlyn TravisOctober 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM 1 Ash Bean/The Drew Barrymore Show Matthew McConaughey and Drew Barrymore on 'The Drew Barrymore Show' Drew Barrymore is looking back at her life with...
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Emlyn TravisOctober 3, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Matthew McConaughey and Drew Barrymore on 'The Drew Barrymore Show'
Drew Barrymore is looking back at her life with her Boys on the Side costar Matthew McConaughey.
The actress explained during Thursday's episode of The Drew Barrymore Show that a section about time in McConaughey's new book, Poems & Prayers, resonated with her.
"I was drawn to the fact that you even have a chapter about time because this was one of my last tattoos," Barrymore said, showing him the time tattoo that she got in a March episode of her show. "I now understand, humbly, that [time] was something that I did not understand and I think I definitely took for granted."
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Matthew McConaughey, Drew Barrymore, and Barrymore's dog Douglas on 'The Drew Barrymore Show'
The Music & Lyrics star clarified that she "didn't know how to respect time" in her younger years the way that she does now. "What's the shift?" McConaughey asked, to which Barrymore replied, "Turning 50, with a decade of some of the hardest work I've ever done."
She continued, "From 10 to 20 was the hardest decade of my life. I made a lot of mistakes. I had to pick myself back up. It was messy as can be. It's my favorite decade."
But, Barrymore noted, it wasn't the only difficult decade in her life. "Forty to 50 was also when I didn't think it could get any harder than that," she said. "And a lot of things happened in my life — especially once kids are involved — I was like, 'Oh, there is room under bottom. A whole bunch of it! And I just found it.'"
While she did not share any specific examples of the difficulties she faced during that time period, Barrymore was 41 years old when she and ex-husband Will Kopelman announced their breakup in April 2016. The couple, who share daughters Frankie and Olive, finalized their divorce that August, though Barrymore has since admitted that she hasn't "fully recovered" from their split.
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Still, the hardships she experienced inspired her to make a change and appreciate the time she has with others. "I put in a decade of self-improvement, self-awareness, and radical changes," she said. "So all this work led up to, 'Oh my god, time is our most precious commodity.'"
McConaughey sympathized with Barrymore, noting that he's "still looking for more than 24 hours in a day" to accomplish everything he needs to as both a creative and a father of three kids himself.
"To your point, I can look up, and all of a sudden see I've over-leveraged myself," he admitted. "I'm spent, and where I wanted to spend time with the family at the end of the day at six, it turns out to be 9:30 again. And you're like, 'Damnit, now I'm just tucking them in bed.' Or, 'I'm missing out on things.'"
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Matthew McConaughey and Drew Barrymore on 'The Drew Barrymore Show'
His advice was to focus on what matters most. "You've gotta get sometimes get rid of some of the campfires in front of you so that you can have fewer fires, but maybe you got some bonfires, right?" McConaughey said. "You can keep putting more wood on those and make sure they're never going out instead of all the new little campfires sometimes."
Barrymore acknowledged that the plight is one experienced by many parents.
"Some moments are better. Like, 'I made it to that school event. I saw Olive play volleyball. I got to my other daughter. I checked every box. I'm feeling good about myself,'" she said. "Cut to the next day and I'm like, 'Oh, no, I failed three things and I don't have the confidence I had yesterday because I'm not nailing it today.'"
When asked what he does in that situation, McConaughey replied, "Oh, I either go, 'Come on, McConaughey, let's get it together.' Or I go, 'I'm human, man. The kids gotta see that I'm not making A-pluses all the time.'"
The Drew Barrymore Show airs weekdays on CBS.
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