Lucy Hale Opens Up About Two Years of Sobriety During an Appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show: 'I Wouldn't Give Up This Feeling for the World'

Lucy Hale rings in the new year by opening up about her two-year journey with sobriety in an upcoming interview on The Drew Barrymore Show.

The syndicated daytime talk show released a clip from Thursday's episode, in which both the 34-year-old actress and the 48-year-old host discussed their drinking problems.

Hale was promoting her new film Which Brings Me To You, also starring Nat Wolff, which hits theaters on January 19.

Barrymore said Hale was on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast and she was talking about getting sober, which she said is “two years on January 2nd.”

Drew added: “I stopped drinking, alcohol was my poison. I'm not sober. I'm not working on a program, but for me it's alcohol and I didn't say anything. Funnily enough, it was Gayle King who got it out of me.”

Hale was promoting her new film Which Brings Me To You, also starring Nat Wolff (left), which hits theaters on January 19.

Barrymore said Hale was on Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast and she talked about getting sober, which she said is “two years January 2nd.”

Lucy asked if she was “ready to talk about it or if it just came out,” while Drew admitted that she was also over the two-year mark.

“Something happens during the two years, at least for me I think,” Hale said, as Barrymore asked if it was “the time under our belt” or perhaps increased confidence.

Hale responded, “I feel like the first year I was like, 'Okay, stay safe, stay home.' Certain elements of my life fell away, new people came into my life,” she said.

“But I felt like in my second year I learned, that I had fun, that I redefined fun. It just looks different these days. I went out, I went to the dinners, I went to the events. I wasn't avoiding anything,” Hale admitted.

Barrymore said she was: 'Now that I'm having an epiphany, which is listening to your story, I wonder if when you engage in behavior that you know doesn't serve you, I think we lose faith in ourselves that we'll never break that cycle.”

She added that it was two years ago that she “maybe started to trust myself, but I didn't know it at the time.”

Drew added, “You say what you say makes me think this might be a good time to get it out there to your colleagues and other people, to plant that flag in the sand if you have the time and the confidence earned. .'

Lucy replied, “And you can trust your choices. I think for me it was, “Oh, I just feel safe in my body again.” I wouldn't give up this feeling for anything.'

Lucy asked if she was “ready to talk about it or if it just came out,” while Drew admitted she was also on the two-year mark

“Something happens during the two years, at least for me I think,” Hale said, as Barrymore asked if it was “the time under our belt” or perhaps a greater trust

She added that it was two years ago that she “maybe started to trust myself, but I didn't know it at the time.”

She added, “The fact that you're talking about this so openly doesn't tell you how many people you've helped. You inspired me,” as Drew confirmed, “You inspired me.”

“It's just amazing and then it's just a ripple effect and I think if more people in general, especially women, can show the dirty, gross, ugly parts that we don't want to talk about, I think that's beautiful and courageous is and so cool,” Hale added.

Hale plays Jane in Which Brings Me To You, a “romantic burnout” who meets Will (Nat Wolff) at a wedding and almost makes contact with him in the coat closet.

Will decides to slow things down a bit, as they agree to openly admit their shortcomings in love, in case this could be a real connection.