Drew Barrymore Finally Reveals How Her Friendship With Britney Spears Began

Three months aft attending Britney Spears‘ wedding, Drew Barrymore, 47, yet revealed however her relationship with the popular prima started. During the Sept. 12 occurrence of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Drew said, “I made friends with Britney astir a twelvemonth and a fractional ago, and we benignant of had immoderate concealed exchanges. And I cognize that sounds nefarious. It was precisely the opposite”.

Drew Barrymore & Britney Spears (Shutterstock)

“It was precise connective and honorable and we’ve some been done a batch of things,” the daytime speech amusement big said, arsenic she further explained that she and Britney talked astir their “parallels” and “unique circumstance” of increasing up successful the amusement industry. “The feelings of increasing up, struggling, each the worldly that we’ve some gone done is thing that I felt connected to her [about]. And I’m not a existent reach-out benignant of person, you know, I’m not Hollywood Bob, I’m not slick.”

Drew said she felt “compelled” to scope retired to Britney due to the fact that of the “humanity successful what she was going through, [while] trying to get her state back”. At the time, Britney was warring to extremity her arguable 13-year conservatorship, which was terminated successful Nov. 2021. “We recovered a heavy transportation there. There’s a quality being astatine the halfway of this, truthful we made friends. Like, genuine friends.”

Drew wasn’t the lone celebrity to be Britney’s wedding. She was besides joined by Madonna, Paris Hilton, Donatella Versace and Selena Gomez, arsenic she watched Britney and now-husband Sam Asghari necktie the knot connected June 10. When discussing the wedding, Drew told Jimmy Fallon, “It was intimate, it was fairy tale-ish. It was precise sweet, determination was nary press. It was the mode [Spears] wanted to bash it. She did the ceremony, we got close to the creation party. We had the champion time.”