After Fifteen Years Of Silence, Drew Barrymore Shared An Emotional Reunion With Her Ex-Husband

Once upon a time, Drew Barrymore was married to comedian Tom Green. They were one of the biggest super couples of the early ’00s… and then in the blink of an eye, they divorced. After that, perhaps unsurprisingly, they fell out of touch. Until recently. Televised on her own talk show, Drew came face to face with her ex-husband for the first time in 15 years.

Blasts from the past

Barrymore had invited Green onto her new show The Drew Barrymore Show, and he’d accepted. The famous actress has been using it to catch up with people from her past. The first episode featured her Charlie’s Angels co-stars Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz plus her 50 First Dates leading man Adam Sandler.

Making her dream come true

For years Barrymore had been trying to get a talk show off the ground. She’d first started discussing it with Warner Bros. all the way back in 2016. By 2019 she’d shot a pilot, but it took until the next year for it to actually air. Once it did, it was a big success. Audiences loved Barrymore’s sweet optimism and charm.

The perfect timing

Barrymore wanted the show to be a breath of fresh air in a difficult year. In September 2020 she told the Entertainment Tonight show, “I would have never been right for this job until this moment… I want to just look at everything from an honest perspective, a different perspective, a humorous perspective and a very real perspective in 2020.”

No drama

So for those who were expecting something incredibly dramatic to happen with Green, they might have been disappointed. There was no digging up old grievances, and definitely no screaming or throwing things. Both Barrymore and Green had grown up a lot since the ’00s, and they behaved like mature adults.