Drew Barrymore, who seemed so happy recently with her third husband, Will Kopelman, and their two young daughters, is getting another divorce.
People and US Weekly reported Friday the couple have broken up after three years of marriage and are headed for divorce court. The New York Post was first with the news; all cited unnamed sources close to the couple.
Barrymore, 41, and Kopelman, 38, an art consultant, started dating in February 2011 and married at her Montecito, Calif., estate in June 2012. She was five months pregnant at the time.
People reported the two confirmed the divorce in a joint statement Saturday. They said, however, that it does not take away from them being a family.
"Divorce might make one feel like a failure, but eventually you start to find grace in the idea that life goes on," they said in the statement. "Our children are our universe, and we look forward to living the rest of our lives with them as the first priority."
Their daughters are Olive, 3, and Frankie, 23 months. In an interview with People in October, Barrymore spoke out about her postpartum depression after Frankie was born.
Last week, Netflix announced that Barrymore (Charlie's Angels, Blended) and Timothy Olyphant (Justified, Deadwood) will star in a new comedy series, Santa Clarita Diet, about married realtors in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita who lead "vaguely discontented lives … until Sheila goes through a dramatic change sending both their lives down a road of death and destruction – but in a good way," as the press release said.
Barrymore, the descendant of a famous acting family dynasty, became a child star in 1982 as little Gertie in Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and by age 10 was drinking and drugging and hanging out mostly with adults.
Last February she announced she would publish another book, this one an autobiographical collection of essays about her tumultuous life.
Barrymore is already the co-author, with Todd Gold, of another book about the first part of her life, Little Girl Lost, which came out in 1991 when she was 16.
She's a successful actress, producer, director, beauty entrepreneur and spokes-model, but her romantic life hasn't always been rosy.
She married a Welsh bar owner in March 1994 and then split weeks later; then she married comic Tom Green in July 2001 and he filed for divorce six months later.
