Worried Drew Barrymore reveals ‘worst nightmare’ involving young daughters Olive and Frankie

Drew Barrymore is a doting mom to two young daughters, Olive, 14, and Frankie, 12, and she’s doing everything she can to protect them. 

The talk show host – who shot to fame as a child actress – had Dr. Shefali on Friday September 25th’s episode, where she got candid about her fears about children having too much too young, especially given her own experiences. 

“I’m seeing these kids, both boys and girls, have too much too soon, and that really harkens back to my own personal downfall of entrusting me as a child with just too much privilege, freedom and access when I was too young for it, and I didn’t know how to handle it…,” Drew began – which can be watched in the footage below. 

“I feel these companies are like, ‘You as the parent can talk with your child,’ and I am like, ‘This is my worst nightmare. How do I get out of my own past experience so I can feel more capable and present?'” 

Drew shares her two daughters with ex-husband Will Kopelman, who she has an amicable co-parenting relationship with. 

The doting mom is notoriously private when it comes to sharing photos of her daughters on social media, but previously admitted that they are keen to follow in her footsteps as an actress but that she was taking it slowly by just agreeing for now to school plays rather than anything in the public eye. 

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Talking to People, she explained: “As a parent, I would really love to support my kids when they’re older. Again, what number is that? I don’t know, but it’s not 13 and it’s probably not 14. It’s up there, but your kid will present themselves in a way where you’ve got to listen to them and support them and trust them.” 

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She’s raising her children in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and often shares photos of their home on social media. 

The down-to-earth star has been open about a lot of aspects of her personal life, and previously spoke about co-parenting with her ex while appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2017. 

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She said: “I so wanted to raise kids in this ultra-traditional way and do everything so the polar opposite of my experience. You can talk until you’re blue in the face, but kids watch what you do every single day of your life, all day long, and that behaviour and that example and that love and community and honesty is what’s making everything feel safe for my kids.”