American actress Drew Barrymore has opened up about the extent of her daughter’s gruesome holiday injury after riding an e-bike on a family holiday in France
Drew Barrymore has opened up on the terrifying incident that left her daughter with a nasty injury. The actress and chat show host, 50, said the family had a scary emergency situation as one of her daughters came hurtling off her electric bike during a trip in France.
Drew, who shares daughters Olive, 12, and Frankie, 11, with her ex-husband Will Kopelman, revealed the scary ordeal which made her cancel her plans with Stephen Colbert. Speaking on her pal’s US show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Drew told the host how she was in “fabulous France” when the nightmare happened.
The family was biking deep in the mountains when Drew said her daughter “ripped her whole elbow open”. It led to a number of hospital visits.
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Drew told her pal: “‘We spent days in an E.R., in and out.” But she said her daughter had to think fast when the incident initially happened.
“She ripped off her bra and turned it into a tourniquet,” Drew said as she praised her daughter’s quick-thinking ways. And she was also quick to distance herself from teaching her daughter what to do when the presenter tried to pass some praise to the mum-of-two.
“No! That’s just who she is,” Drew expressed. “And I just marvel at her.”
Earlier in the year, Drew confessed she had been selfish before she became a mother. She conceded that while being a mum is “consuming”, she actually “prefers” this version of herself.
Responding to a fan’s query about how long it took her to regain her sense of self after having a baby, she wrote: “I’m still not myself. And I don’t know if I will ever get back to the carefree, selfish person I was before children.
“I can never not know this love and concern I have for my two daughters. It’s consuming. I am just trying to embrace the new me. And I do prefer me now.
Writing in her US Weekly piece at the time, she went on: “I’m much more capable. Much more trustworthy. Much more admirable than I ever was.”
However, the 50 First Dates star also emphasised that both child-free living and parenthood should be viewed as “considered perfectly fulfilling roads” in life. And she said that “time” is the ultimate tool for self-discovery.
She continued “Motherhood’ or ‘otherhood’ should be considered perfectly fulfilling roads. And may each one of them lead us to our better selves.
“I think this takes time, though. Maturity has so much to do with it. Time is the great teacher.”
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