Drew Barrymore was excoriated today for her apology video concerning her show’s return during the Hollywood strikes.
Now the tear-stained ridiculous video has been removed from Instagram. Below are some clips.
Drew acted as if she was in a hostage video, not quite explaining why she had to come back. She said it was “complex.” Yet she was going ahead with the show regardless.
Next week’s episodes have been taped and will begin airing on Monday. Drew said in the video there would be no writers, but no one believes this– there will be scabs because you could not produce her show without scripts and research.
What a mess.
In the video she says:
“I believe there’s nothing I can do or say in this moment to make it OK. I wanted to own a decision, so that it wasn’t a PR-protected situation, and I would just take full responsibility for my actions. I know there is just nothing I can do that will make this OK for those that it is not OK with. I fully accept that. I fully understand that. There are so many reasons why this is so complex, and I just want everyone to know my intentions have never been in a place to upset or hurt anymore. It’s not who I am.”
“I’ve been through so many ups and downs in my life, and this is one of them. I deeply apologize to writers. I deeply apologize to unions. I deeply apologize… I don’t exactly know what to say because sometimes when things are so tough, it’s hard to make decisions from that place. So all I can say is that I wanted to accept responsibility. And no, I don’t have a PR machine behind this. My decision to go back to the show — I didn’t want to hide behind people, so I won’t.”
“I certainly couldn’t have expected this kind of attention, and we aren’t going to break rules and we will be in compliance. I wanted to do this, because as I said, this is bigger than me and there are other people’s jobs on the line. And since launching live in a pandemic, I just wanted to make a show that was there for people in sensitive times. And I weighed the scales and I thought if we could go on during a global pandemic, and everything that the world experienced through 2020, why would this sideline us?”
