Drew Barrymore Reveals Adam Sandler’s Teen Daughters Take Her Younger Girls ‘Under Their Wing’: ‘Really Good Sign’
The daytime talk show host is a mom to daughters, Frankie and Olive
Drew Barrymore tells Mindy Kaling that Adam Sandler’s daughters, Sunny and Sadie, are “so good” to her daughters, Frankie and Olive
The daytime talk show host also shared that Sandler’s girls taking “younger ones under their wing” is a sign of the actor and his wife’s “good parenting”
The 50 First Dates star shares her two daughters with ex-husband Will Kopelman
Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler’s heartwarming friendship extends to their families.
During the Tuesday, May 13, episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the daytime talk show host, 50, was joined by guest and fellow mom Mindy Kaling. While chatting with the Sex Lives of College Girls creator, 45, Barrymore opened up about how she feels it’s a good sign when older kids aren’t “dismissive of younger kids.”
As an example, the 50 First Dates actress shared that the Sandler daughters, Sunny, 16, and Sadie, 19, are “so good” to her two daughters, Frankie, 11, and Olive, 12.
“I feel like it’s a really good sign of a good soul and good parenting when older kids are not dismissive of younger kids,” she told Kaling. “It’s funny, like not to drop names, but Adam Sandler’s daughters, Sunny and Sadie, are so good to my daughters.”
“Olive and Frankie are 10 and 12, and they like hang out. I always tell Jackie — Adam’s wife — what a good mom that she is and what good parents they are because their daughters always take younger ones under their wing.”
Barrymore shares Olive and Frankie with ex-husband Will Kopelman. Although their 2016 divorce was “painful,” the couple is on good terms. In 2021, Barrymore took her daughters trick-or-treating for Halloween with Kopelman and his current wife, Alexandra Michler Kopelman.
“I think, honestly, this is so ideal. It is the dream. And I love seeing this, I really do. It’s very positive,” Barrymore said during the “Drew’s News” segment of The Drew Barrymore Show. “You’re never not together if you have children.”
While open to sharing cute anecdotes and the occasional Instagram post, Barrymore is notoriously private when it comes to her children and says she won’t “sell her brand on her kids.”
“I started [in this industry] when I was in diapers,” she told PEOPLE in 2020. “At 13, it was that sad sob story. And then I picked myself back up. I’ve been married, I’ve gotten divorced, I’ve raised myself, for better or worse. I have these two girls who are my entire universe. And it has all been out there.”
While speaking with Seth Rogen on the Wednesday, April 9 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the daytime television host shared that she’s getting ready for her 12-year-old daughter Olive’s bat mitzvah in September.
With her ex-husband being Jewish, the mom of two has been open about raising her daughters in the faith.
“I’m a shiksa. I do the seders and we do Passover. I haven’t converted yet, [but] Olive will be raised traditionally,” she explained during an appearance on The View when Olive was younger.
Wendy Williams Was Moved from Her Care Facility Floor After Allegedly Sneaking Up to Roof, Getting Drunk on Her Birthday
A new documentary claims Wendy Williams was placed in her assisted living facility’s memory unit after sneaking off to get drunk in July 2024
A new documentary called TRAPPED: What Is Happening to Wendy Williams?, dug deeper into Williams’ alcoholism, dementia diagnosis and guardianship.
Williams is currently on the memory floor of an assisted living facility in New York City, but investigative journalist Diane Dimond claimed she was only moved there after sneaking off to get drunk on her 60th birthday.
The former talk show host previously admitted that she had “celebrated” that year, but has since gotten sober.
A new documentary is delving into Wendy Williams’ alcoholism.
An hour-long special, calledTRAPPED: What Is Happening to Wendy Williams?, premiered on Monday, May 19, on the ID Channel, taking a deeper look into her life under a guardianship. The former talk show host, 60, currently resides in a secured floor of a New York City assisted living facility, but investigative journalist Diane Dimond claimed that wasn’t always the case.
“Wendy was on the third floor in this care unit, where she has access to the hallways, to the elevators,” Dimond alleged. “And on her birthday, she decided to get in the elevator and see where she could go. Well, it went all the way up to the rooftop bar, and it being her birthday, she ordered a drink, and then another one, and another. Who knows how many, but she will admit to you that she got drunk, she had a relapse.”
“Her treatment is to be sent to a much more restrictive ward,” she claimed. “And that was the fifth floor, the memory care unit, where she has a room with a bathroom and a television, and she is locked into that floor 24/7 unless the guardian gives her permission to go out once in a while.”
Williams, who was placed in a guardianship in 2022 and diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) the following year, has addressed these claims before. During a March interview on The View, she admitted that she “celebrated” in July 2024 when she turned 60, but insisted that she is now sober.
“[My] relationship [with substances] is fine and is wonderful,” she said. “I’ve had my devices and I have to tell you something: I am easily going on with my life, alcohol-free.”
Several doctors have weighed in on the possibility of Williams having alcohol-induced dementia, rather than FTD.
“Alcohol is one of the main causes of cognitive decline and dementia,” brain disorder specialist Daniel Amen said in TRAPPED. “In fact, I believe that alcoholic dementia is the second most common cause.”
Since Williams began speaking out about her conservatorship and health issues at the beginning of 2025, her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, has requested that she receive “a new medical evaluation that will involve comprehensive neurological and psychological testing by a specialist in the field.”
“The issue of whether [Williams] has the capacity to assess what is in her own best interests deserves renewed careful consideration by qualified experts, and should not be left to careless speculation in tabloids, radio, or on the Internet,” the Feb. 5 filing stated.
Then, in March, Williams was taken to the hospital following a welfare check requested by her health care advocate, Ginalisa Monterroso. When the pair later called into Good Day New York, Williams announced that she “passed” the exams at the hospital “with flying colors.”
Morrissey, however, told PEOPLE that Williams never scheduled her new medical evaluation.
“Medical testing, including an MRI brain scan and neuropsychological assessment, had been scheduled for Ms. Williams,” Morrissey told PEOPLE. “The Court directed that the testing be completed in March. Ms. Williams has declined to participate in the testing to date and therefore, the testing was not completed.”
In response, Williams told PEOPLE that she was not aware of the guardian’s claim that she had opted out of recent testing.
“I don’t know anything about that,” she said with a laugh, adding: “Bulls—. I am open to what I am open to and I can’t talk about it right now.”