Drew Barrymore Shares Sweet Photos with 'This Friend of Mine' Cameron Diaz: 'She Looks at Me and She Sees Me'
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01/02/2025 01:22 PM
Barrymore and Diaz have been friends since they were teenagers. The pair costarred in the early 2000s 'Charlie's Angels' movies
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Drew Barrymore and Cameron DiazDrew Barrymore is honoring her friendship with Cameron Diaz.
On Thursday, Jan. 2, Barrymore, 49, shared six photos of herself and her longtime bestie Diaz, 52, to Instagram, where she recreated a TikTok trend known as "this friend of mine" by sharing photos of the two over the years.
"And then I met this friend of mine, and all I have to do is stand in front of her and she sees everything I am, everything I stand for," Barrymore's caption reads. Her post includes a recent selfie she and Diaz took, as well as older photos of them laughing together and a candid shot of the pair dressed up in suits and wearing facial hair from the set of Charlie's Angels. One final snapshot shows Diaz planting a kiss on Barrymore's head.
"There's a level of seeing I've never really had before in my life," the caption continues. "She looks at me and she sees me."
"And then I met this friend of mine… @camerondiaz ❤️," Barrymore added alongside her post.
Though Diaz and Barrymore did costar in the early 2000s Charlie's Angels movies, the pair's friendship dates back further. The pair met as teenagers when Barrymore was working at a coffee shop and Diaz was modeling, as they told Instagram users during an Instagram Live session held back in 2021.
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"She's still my bestie and sistie," Barrymore said of Diaz at the time, as the pair spoke about their frequent text exchanges and cooking habits. "We've experienced birth, life, death, marriage, divorce— highs and lows, work, boyfriends, friends, travel — there is nothing we haven't done together," Barrymore, who shares daughtersOlive, 12, and Frankie, 10, with her ex-husband Will Kopelman, said. Diaz, meanwhile, shares two children with her husband Benji Madden, whom she has been married to since 2015.
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Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz on May 1, 2019Neither Barrymore nor Diaz have done much acting for the screen in recent years, but Diaz is preparing to make a comeback with the upcoming Netflix movie Back in Action, which begins streaming Jan. 17, alongside Jamie Foxx. Diaz is also expected to reprise her iconic Shrek voice role in a fifth Shrek film that Dreamworks announced in July. The film is set to release in 2026.
Barrymore, meanwhile, most recently made a cameo as herself in the horror film Smile 2 and voiced a character in the 2024 animated series Princess Power. She continues to host her daytime talk show The Drew Barrymore Show on weekday mornings.
