Drew Barrymore is sticking up for actor Hugh Grant amid his Academy Awards 2023 backlash interview with mannequin Ashley Graham.
Grant, 62, was interviewed by Graham on the Oscars purple carpet, the place many viewers observed that he gave quick solutions again to her and apparently rolled his eyes after it was wrapped.
When Graham requested the actor “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller” what he was carrying, he merely revised, “My go well with.”
His awkward interview prompted criticism amongst many — together with Piers Morgan.
Nevertheless, Barrymore, 48, had some perception to share in protection of Grant throughout Friday’s episode of her discuss present, “The Drew Barrymore Show.”
“I swear, if you understand Hugh, like, that’s his means of loving you,” Barrymore mentioned throughout the episode. “I swear, okay, so it is humorous, too, as a result of there’s this factor going round with him and Ashley Graham on the purple carpet, and individuals are like, he is such a curmudgeon and he or she’s so thrown.”
The discuss present host continued, “No, that’s Hugh Grant. You assume you are getting this charming film star and what you actually get is grumpy Hugh and then you definately fall in love with grumpy Hugh. When he says that, I am telling you, he’s being completely humorous, he does not imply one detrimental factor about it.”
She added that the actor Graham encountered on the purple carpet was the “actual” Hugh and proceeded to name him a “hilarious, good human being.”
The Put up reached out to each Barrymore and Grant’s reps for remark.
Her response got here as she was initially requested about his remark about her singing within the 2007 movie they starred in collectively, referred to as “Music and Lyrics,” the place he just lately mentioned that she had a “horrendous” singing voice.
“Drew Barrymore was in that movie with me, and I do not assume she’d thoughts me saying her singing is simply horrendous. I’ve heard canines bark higher than she sings,” Grant mentioned about his former costar throughout an interview with Wired this week.
Barrymore additionally took to her Instagram web page to share a humorous comeback to Grant’s feedback about her singing.
Within the video she posted, Barrymore sang the tune from the film right into a hairbrush, writing within the caption, “#SingForHughGrant JOIN ME.”
Since his look on the 2023 Oscars, Grant hasn’t spoken publicly about his encounter with Graham.
He appeared on the “The View” just some days later, however wasn’t requested concerning the purple carpet — one thing that the discuss present’s hosts had been raving about on social media.
Graham, nonetheless, did have one thing to say when requested about it by TMZ.
“You already know what, my mama instructed me to kill individuals with kindness, so there you go,” the mannequin mentioned.