Drew Barrymore had a hard transition leaving LA for New York. Here’s how she coped

LOS ANGELES — Drew Barrymore, who grew up in L.A., is a very reluctant New Yorker.

After moving to New York so her daughters, Olive and Frankie, could be closer to dad Will Kopelman’s family, the couple’s dynamic quickly shifted and they separated, then divorced in 2016. Even so, the actor-producer-host sold her Hollywood Hills home in 2018.

Now Barrymore has a place in Manhattan and another in the Hamptons, but it still doesn’t feel quite like home, she told The Times’ Amy Kaufman.