Drew Barrymore Doesn’t Tackle Hollywood Strikes, Controversy Round Her Speak Present Return in Season 4 Premiere

Drew Barrymore‘s return to daytime was a largely muted affair, with the host and actress sitting down with award-winning recording artist Shania Twain, however abstaining from any remark round her controversial return following the now-ended writers strike and amid the continuing actors’ strike.

Through the 30-minute premiere and first new episode of The Drew Barrymore Show since Could, Barrymore launched straight into her sit down with Twain, telling viewers, “Alright all people, welcome to season 4. Let’s go women.” The journey took Barrymore to Twain’s Vegas farm — midway throughout the nation from her New York Metropolis studio, the place she had beforehand been met with pickets after asserting plans to carry again her WGA-covered daytime speak present just some weeks earlier than the Writers Guild and AMPTP reached an settlement.

Sitting collectively on Twain’s sofa, the duo chatted concerning the singer’s love of horses and the facility of equine remedy; eager to be multiple factor in her private and artistic life; Twain rising up shortly and parenting her siblings in her early 20s after each her dad and mom died; fears round “what was on the opposite aspect” of her 15-year hiatus associated to a beforehand undiagnosed Lyme illness.

Additionally they mentioned the musician pivoting to primarily songwriting after her medical prognosis, Twain’s Vegas residency, and what motivated her new tune, “Queen of Me. The Grammy-winner then took Barrymore out to journey horses. The dialog, which included an in depth driving lesson from Twain, spanned themes of development, re-dos and “getting again within the saddle.”

Barrymore’s return comes two weeks after a number of former writers declined to return to the present following her preliminary Sept. 10 announcement to return amid the writers strike. Whereas a number of different WGA-covered exhibits made comparable plans final month regardless of the then-ongoing work stoppage, which ended on Sept. 26, Barrymore obtained among the largest backlash.

The actress and speak present host was met with picketers exterior of her New York Metropolis studio amid efforts to renew manufacturing, and drew extra ire after making an attempt to defend her choice to return with out the syndicated, CBS Media Ventures-produced and -distributed present’s hanging writers in a Sept. 15 Instagram video assertion.

After that newest wave of criticism, together with a response from the WGA, on Sept. 17, Barry offered one other replace, stating that she would select to delay the present’s return till the top of the writers strike. On Oct. 4, the speak present introduced, but once more, that it could be returning — this time for Monday’s mid-October premiere.

“I’ve no phrases to specific my deepest apologies to anybody I’ve damage and, in fact, to our unimaginable workforce,” Barrymore wrote in an Instagram put up. “We actually tried to search out our means ahead, and I really hope for a decision for all the trade very quickly.”