Drew Barrymore has announced she is pausing her self-titled talk show amid the writers strike.
Last week, the actress and Drew Barrymore Show host revealed it would be returning without writers and would abide by strike rules in not discussing struck work. Barrymore apologized after she received pushback and said there was nothing she could do to make it OK.
“I have listened to everyone, and I am making the decision to pause the show’s premiere until the strike is over,” Barrymore wrote in a statement on Instagram Sunday. “I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today.”
She concluded, “We really tried to find our way forward. And I truly hope for a resolution for the entire industry very soon.”
The news that she would be pausing the show comes days after the talk show host posted her now-deleted video apology on Instagram. She explained in the post that she was accepting responsibility and did not have a “PR machine” behind her decision to restart the show despite the ongoing writers strike.
“I certainly couldn’t have expected this kind of attention,” she said about her decision in the video. “We aren’t gonna 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.”
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