Drew Barrymore welcomed actress and new author Megan Fox to The Drew Barrymore Show today for a very special conversation that featured the two women in what was basically a deeply healing therapy session for the entire episode. Fox was there to promote her new book of poems, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, which came out this week, and Barrymore began their conversation by reading one of her favorite poems, titled “Unrealized Potential.”

The poem’s entirety reads, “I will always be in love with the man that you’ll never become.”

When Barrymore asked Fox what the poem is about, she replied, “I think that could be applied to many people throughout my life.”

She continued, “But I think when you’re in a relationship with somebody who you see so much potential in them and you connect to their soul, and you know who they could be or who they should be and because of their childhood traumas and unhealed issues, they’re not able to be who they’re meant to be or who they could, they operate at a lower frequency than where they should be.”

Fox added, “They wear a mask of someone that’s not really who you know they can be to you…Because they’re not willing to get the help, they’ll never be their best self. And so, you can stay and forever be in love with who they could possibly become one day, or you could move on.

“I think a lot of us do that, we’re in love with the potential and not the reality,” Fox concluded.

Barrymore was stunned by the lengthy but thoughtful answer, and was visibly moved by it. “Okay,” she began to say, as tears formed in her eyes. “That was such a healing answer because I think why it affected me so much is that I’m still stuck, I’m still closed for business.”

The women went on to discuss Fox’s relationship with fiance Machine Gun Kelly, which led Barrymore to credit the musician with transforming her show when he appeared in December 2021 and engaged in a vulnerable and tear-filled episode about mental health.

“Machine Gun Kelly helped change everything, I feel like, overnight, after he came and visited us here. We graduated into the thing I always wanted to be,“ Barrymore told Fox, describing the “realness” Kelly helped bring to her show. “I’m so forever indebted to him for it.”

Fox agreed, saying, “You got to see somebody not hiding from their failures. Or trying to pretend they weren’t insecure… That’s something that’s really moving for other people to see.”

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