Drew Barrymore Pulls Plug on Speak Present Return, ‘I Listened to Everybody’

Drew Barrymore won't cross the picket line, in spite of everything … she now says she is NOT going again into manufacturing on her discuss present whereas the Author's Guild strike continues.

Drew accomplished an enormous flip-flop Sunday morning when she introduced, “I've listened to everybody, and I'm making the choice to pause the present’s premiere till the strike is over. I've no phrases to specific my deepest apologies to anybody I've harm and, after all, to our unimaginable group who works on the present and has made it what it's at this time.”

The turnaround comes precisely one week after she first mentioned she would begin taking pictures new episodes — and since then she's confronted a wave of backlash and criticism that almost introduced her to tears in a video apology for coming again, however oddly mentioned was nonetheless going to return to manufacturing.

Maybe not coincidentally, her change of coronary heart — to drag the plug on a comeback — comes hours after Rosie O'Donnell ripped into her.

As we reported, Rosie O’Donnell excoriated Drew on Saturday, posting easy directions on how she will be able to save face with the union and the general public. She wrote, “Cease taping the present. Cease asking audiences to cross the picket line, Then ask somebody that can assist you craft three declarative sentences. They need to observe alongside these strains: I made an error. I apologize to the WGA for disrespecting the work {of professional} writers. I apologize to all union members who're withstanding actual hardship as I stay a lifetime of luxurious.”

Properly, Drew did not say that word-for-word, however, in essence, it's what she ended up saying.

BTW, the video apology has been deleted, and Drew now appears resolute in not coming again till the strike ends. She says, “We actually tried to search out our means ahead. And I actually hope for a decision for the complete trade very quickly.”