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Oprah gushes about Drew Barrymore: 'You have changed my life'

By Megan Armstrong | Last updated 4/30/21

Drew Barrymore couldn't contain her joy when Oprah Winfrey's face appeared, visiting The Drew Barrymore Show on the screen, yet the 46-year-old actress-turned-daytime-host was moved even more when Winfrey described how Barrymore has impacted her.

"Dare I say, seeing [this show] actually changed my life," Winfrey said. "You have changed my life. You have certainly changed my work life because I was there for that very first show where you beamed in Cameron [Diaz], and there you all were, and we didn't know that you all weren't in the same space."

The iconic host and interviewer continued: "I watched that, and I said, 'Hey, why can't we do what Drew did?' And since that time, for Oprah Conversation for Apple TV—the first time I did it was with President Barack Obama, talking about his book Promised Land. ... So, thank you. Pioneer woman."

The segment then took viewers behind the scenes to show what Winfrey was referencing:

And the emotions didn't stop there. Barrymore was over the moon when Winfrey FaceTimed her best friend Gayle King during the show, then Winfrey got choked up when talking about King's pivotal role in her healing and life as a whole:

The reason for the two-time Oscar nominee's visit, though, was her new book titled

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing co-written alongside Dr. Bruce Perry that released Tuesday (April 27):

Winfrey's aforementioned Apple TV Plus series The Oprah Conversation, which launched last July, has welcomed a slew of A-listers in its first season. Mariah Carey, Matthew McConaughey, Stevie Wonder and Dolly Parton all joined before Obama's episode in late November. Eliot Page's first on-camera interview since coming out as transgender dropped today (April 30).

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