Taylor Swift's new romance with Travis Kelce has inspired Drew Barrymore to start dating again.
Barrymore, 48, has been single for seven years and previously admitted that she chose to abstain from sex following her split from ex-husband of four years Will Kopelman. However, Swift's ability to simplify celebrity dating has inspired the "Charlie's Angels" star.
"I just want to say for me personally, I have been single for seven years. Happily seeing her on that first date, out there in the box with his family – I really had a very big Oprah ‘aha’ moment," the actress said while hosting "The Drew Barrymore Show."
"There was something so normal about it."
Swift has attended a handful of Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce's NFL games, seemingly confirming the new relationship between the musician and the tight end. The "Midnights" singer was first photographed at Arrowhead Stadium sitting with Kelce's mom, Donna Kelce, on Sept. 24. Swift was also present at Sunday's game against the Los Angeles Chargers, where the Chiefs took home a win.
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Barrymore noted that while Swift is "everything but normal," the date night seemed simple.
"It was just like, 'I'm a female. I'm going to go out on a date with a male. I'm not going to overthink this. I'm not going to play the dark horse and be secretive and weird about it,'" she explained. "It was like she just went on a date and it made me think I could just go out on a date."
Barrymore also revealed that Swift's love life led her to ask a guy she has been seeing on-and-off for the last three years to a wedding, as her date.
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"I invited him to a wedding next weekend, and he said, ‘Wow, after three-and-a-half years, you are going to invite me to a wedding?’" she told Gwyneth Paltrow during the episode. "Something about Taylor Swift dating like a normal person and not being a dark horse about it."
"I was like, I overthink everything, I should just go on a date," Barrymore added.
Barrymore admitted in 2022 that she had chosen to abstain from sex following her split from Kopelman in 2016. The former couple was married for four years and share two daughters; Olive and Frankie.
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"Some people can get out of a marriage or relationship and in the near future find themselves in another relationship. There is nothing wrong with that! Not one bit. I do not judge! I celebrate their journey! Because for some people that really works. It didn’t work for me," Barrymore wrote in a blog post at the time. "I needed to stay very celibate and honoring and in some sort of state of mourning of the loss of a nuclear family that I swore I would have for my daughters and to find grace and acceptance and what our new normal of a blended family would be."
"It took time. I’m proud of myself that I took that time," she continued. "That's what I, as my own individual and no one else just me, needed to do and I honored that and I respect myself for it, as I respect anyone else for their choices. I have just simply come to laugh about the fact that it is not my personal priority to be with a partner, but that doesn’t mean it won’t become one someday. I need time. And my view on sex has truly changed."
