Drew Barrymore Reveals Daughter’s Quick Thinking Saved Her After Serious E-Bike Crash in France

 Actress and talk show host Drew Barrymore has revealed that her daughter’s presence of mind saved her life after a serious e-bike accident in the mountains of France.

During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Barrymore, 50, explained that her daughter suffered a severe elbow injury while mountain biking a mile into the mountains. The accident left her bleeding heavily, forcing the family to spend several days in and out of a French emergency room.

“She’s fine, yes, everything’s fine,” Barrymore reassured the audience. “My daughter actually got in an e-bike accident in France… she ripped her whole elbow open. It was just — I mean, we spent days in an ER.”

What amazed Barrymore most was her daughter’s reaction in the moment. “She ripped off her bra and turned it into a tourniquet,” Barrymore recalled. “That’s just who she is and I marvel at her.”

Colbert praised the young girl’s quick thinking, saying, “You had to have done something right for her to have that presence of mind.” Barrymore, however, humbly questioned whether she had any role in it, adding with a smile, “God, I hope I’m that cool.”

Barrymore shares two daughters, Olive (born 2012) and Frankie (born 2014), with her ex-husband Will Kopelman. The couple divorced in 2016 after four years of marriage.

The actress has often spoken candidly about her struggles with parenting. On the Chicks in the Office podcast, she admitted she had no clear roadmap when raising her children. “I did not have the blueprint and I felt like a failure a lot. I felt really overwhelmed and like, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing… and I’m gonna have to learn on the job,’” she said.

Reflecting on generational differences in parenting, Barrymore joked that when she was a child, parents would leave their kids outside for hours without worry. “That led to resiliency,” she explained, contrasting it with today’s “helicopter parenting and coddling.”