Let’s get this straight from the start — Drew Barrymore is not retiring. The 40-year-old actress, ET star, former wild child and current mother-of-two, is just, well, giving it up. For now. And for the next few years, at least. And possibly a few years after that. And after that? Well, don’t hold your breath.
“By no means am I abandoning acting,” she says, early in our conversation, on the subject of work-life balance (her daughters are 3 and 17 months). “Nor am I pretending that I don’t love acting, but I cannot do it right now, with my children. My whole universe revolves around my children, and the hours keep me away from them too much, and I’m not willing to do that. I’ve