Lucy Hale is ringing in the new year by opening up about her two-year journey with sobriety, in an upcoming interview on The Drew Barrymore Show.
The syndicated daytime talk show released a clip from Thursday’s episode, where both the 34-year-old actress and the 48-year-old host discussed their drinking issues.
Hale was promoting her new film Which Brings Me To You, also starring Nat Wolff, which hits theaters January 19.
Barrymore mentioned that Hale was on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast and she talked about getting sober, which she confirmed has been, ‘two years January 2nd.’
Drew added, ‘I stopped drinking, alcohol was my poison. I’m not sober I don’t work a program, but it’s alcohol for me, and I didn’t say anything. Funny enough it was Gayle King who got it out of me.’
Lucy Hale is ringing in the new year by opening up about her two-year journey with sobriety , in an upcoming interview on The Drew Barrymore Show
Hale was promoting her new film Which Brings Me To You, also starring Nat Wolff (left), which hits theaters January 19
Barrymore mentioned that Hale was on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast and she talked about getting sober, which she confirmed has been, ‘two years January 2nd’
Lucy asked if she was, ‘ready to talk about it or did it just kind of come out,’ as Drew admitted she was also at the two-year mark.
‘Something happens at the two-year, at least for me I think,’ Hale said, as Barrymore asked if it was, ‘the time under our belts’ or perhaps increased confidence.
Hale responded, ‘I feel like the first year I was like, “Okay stay safe, stay home.” Certain elements of my life fell away, new people came into my life,’ she said.
‘But I felt like my second year I learned, I was having fun, I gave a new definition to fun. It just looks different these days. I was going out, I was going to the dinners, I was going to the events. I wasn’t avoiding anything,’ Hale admitted.
Barrymore said she was, ‘having a revelation right now, which is listening to your story, I’m wondering if when you have a behavior that you know is not serving you, I think we lose trust in ourselves that we’re never going to break that cycle.’
She added that the two-year mark was when she, ‘started to trust myself maybe and I didn’t know it then.’
Drew added, ‘You saying what you’re saying is making me think maybe that’s a good time to put it out into the world to your peers, to other people, to plant that flag in the sand when you’ve earned time and trust.’
Lucy responded, ‘And you can trust your choices. I think for me it was, “Oh I just feel safe in my body again.” I wouldn’t give this feeling up for anything.’
Lucy asked if she was, ‘ready to talk about it or did it just kind of come out,’ as Drew admitted she was also at the two-year mark
‘Something happens at the two-year, at least for me I think,’ Hale said, as Barrymore asked if it was, ‘the time under our belts’ or perhaps increased confidence
She added that the two-year mark was when she, ‘started to trust myself maybe and I didn’t know it then’
She added, ‘The fact that you talk so openly about this there’s no telling how many people you’ve helped. You’ve inspired me,’ as Drew confirmed, ‘You’ve inspired me.’
‘It’s just amazing and then it’s just a ripple effect and I think if more people in general, especially women can show like the dirty, gross ugly parts that we don’t want to talk about, I think that is beautiful and brave and so cool,’ Hale added.
Hale plays Jane in Which Brings Me To You, a ‘romantic burnout’ who meets Will (Nat Wolff) at a wedding and nearly hooks up with him in the coat closet.
Will decides to slow things down as they agree to candidly confess to their shortcomings in love on the off chance this may be a real connection.
