Drew Barrymore Will 'Try to Practice Physical Distance'

[ty]

Drew Barrymore Says She Will 'Try to Practice Physical Distance' With Her Talk Show Guests: 'Not My Strong Point' https://t.co/Ck0kZmnMRO
- Variety (@Variety) August 24, 2024
Barrymore, whose eponymous talk show recently received an early Season 6 renewal, admitted in an interview with Entertainment Tonight that she’ll “try to practice physical

Comments

[syzygy09]

I understand that completely and I don't disagree with you.

I have a friend who I met in middle school (probably one of my most dear friends ever) who I connected with. So into high school she was very much a hugging person in the halls when the bell rang. I wasn't against her hugging me, but I had my own personal things happening in my head and being hugged always like I just met her just made me do a thing I didn't mean to do. I legit loved her. Good and dear friend understood me when I was in her bedroom and explained to her how I felt. She got it. And we moved on. And I love hugs, don't get it wrong, but I need some foreplay...and that's not sexual. Does that make sense?

She then became a high five person, that bitch. Probably because that might bug me more. She had jokes.

Bless her adoration of being close, when my mom was dying of cancer when we were in high school and I had after school stuff to do, I'd come home with my mom on the phone and ask all mouthy without saying a word, as to not interrupt, who she was speaking with? Could it be my mom's coworkers from the school where she was still hired, her doctor, her own friend from forever ago? NOPE! MY FRIEND!

She'd call my mom, ask about her day, talk so much about her own day. And my mom loved it and her so much. Said dear friend had the gift of not giving a shit about being close to people and sharing (with respect, otherwise nah) and just talking and asking and checking in.

Truly on the Mount Rushmore of humans I met as a youth.

Her hugs are good.

ETA: To clarify, the thing I didn't want to do was pull my shoulders in tightly. I'd always hug back, but it made me overthink going to a different class and I realized I wasn't a person who needed to hug someone each time I saw them multiple times a day. It wasn't a specific her thing and she was a person I was always proud to have as a friend. Her with me, thankfully. I'm so damn lucky for her.