Drew Barrymore says she can go years without sex

Drew Barrymore has revealed that sex is just not one of her top priorities.

In the end, it seems abstinence had a profound effect on the 39-year-old actor.

“It was very cool, man,” he added. “I had some pretty wild, trippy experiences from starving myself of sex and food at that time.”

However, Barrymore, 47, was neither shocked nor surprised by Garfield’s method acting practices. “I was like, ‘Yeah, so?’” she said during the episode.

Regular contributor Ross Matthews quipped: “That’s the headline: ‘Drew can go six months, no big deal’.”

She then quickly corrected the RuPaul’s Drag Race judge, saying that she could abstain from sex for ‘years’.

The mum-of-two – who divorced her husband Will Kopelman in 2016 - asked the show’s live audience: “What’s wrong with me that six months doesn’t seem like a very long time?”

Barrymore added that she has also engaged in method acting – a technique in which actors attempt to engross themselves in their character’s psyche often by abstaining from food or social activities.

In Barrymore’s case, she stayed in character as Little Edie Bouvier Beale in the television adaptation of the cult documentary, Grey Gardens, for which she won a Golden Globe.

During the same segment of The Drew Barrymore Show, the host said that she understood why some actors ‘transform and fully commit’ to their roles and cited Christian Bale, Jared Leto, and Matthew McConaughey, who have all successfully tried method acting.

“I definitely, on certain projects, like when I did Grey Gardens, this film I did where I played beloved real-life woman Edie Beale, I was so nervous I didn’t really chit chat with everybody on set, I really just stayed in character,” she recalled.