Drew Barrymore could not be more excited to officially welcome her ex-husband, Will Kopelman’s, new wife into their blended family! The 46-year-old actress and talk show host opened up about Alexandra Michler, who tied the knot with Kopelman in August, during an appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
“He got married to this incredible woman, Allie, and I just feel like I won the lottery with her. Like, I really did,” Barrymore gushed of her children’s new stepmother.
Barrymore and Kopelman share daughters Olive, 9, and Frankie, 7, and the E.T. star also discussed how Michler is fitting into their family.
“We’re going to Hamilton together. I’ve been texting them on their honeymoon with invitations to our daughter, Olive’s, birthday,” she told Shepard. “Like, ‘Do you like this invitation? Is this good to go, to send out?”’
As the exes navigate their new normal together, Barrymore is grateful for how Michler has come into their lives.
“I feel like I’m lucky that there’s this new beautiful soul that came into our lives, and I don’t try to be her best friend,” she said. “She knows that I absolutely worship the ground she walks on, and I’m her biggest cheerleader, but I give them space. We hang out, we do dinners, all the kids’ birthdays. We might take a trip together. We’re finding our way in a beautiful, slow, respectful manner. And I’m just so lucky because she came into Will’s life and got to know my daughters very well and very real, saw all the warts and all the hearts and everything in between. Everybody was like, ‘I choose you.'”
Calling Michler’s addition to their family a “miracle,” Barrymore added that for a long time she was still struggling in the aftermath of her 2016 divorce from Kopelman.
