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Drew Barrymore got emotional as she asked Pamela Anderson for parenting advice about raising her two daughters Olive, 10, and Frankie, eight, in the public eye. 

While wiping away tears as she interviewed the Baywatch star, 55, on her self-titled daytime talk show on Tuesday, the Charlie’s Angels actress, 47, opened up about her challenges raising kids in the spotlight amid fears for their safety and privacy.

‘They didn’t sign up for this,’ the Golden Globe winner said of her littles ones. ‘How did you get through it? Because you raised these incredible boys.’

Anderson, who shares sons Brandon, 26, and Dylan, 25, with her ex-husband Tommy Lee, advised Barrymore to be ‘careful’ with social media and to ‘make sure that [her little girls] know how to make themselves safe from [a] very young’ age.

The response prompted the actress to cringe about ‘having kids in this day and age.’

Challenging: Drew Barrymore got emotional as she asked Pamela Anderson for parenting advice about raising her two daughters Olive, 10, and Frankie, eight, in the public eye

Anderson then comforted the star by saying she was ‘gonna get through this,’ before revealing she once hired a bodyguard ‘to be an assistant P.E. teacher’ at her son’s school to keep them safe. 

‘People wanted to take them off the school yard,’ she reflected. ‘I had to find clever ways to make them feel everything was normal [even though] I needed to know eyes were on them. I was not gonna take that chance.’ 

Barrymore then warned viewers not to ‘f**k with’ her kids.’The women then bonded over struggling to ‘get past’ the fathers of their respective kids.

‘That’s hard, isn’t it?’ Anderson said. ‘It’s just that connection you don’t have with anybody else.’ 

Despite her current single status, the Love, Pamela author said she is having the ‘happiest year of [her] life.’

Meanwhile in December, Barrymore revealed that she was dating again for the first time since her divorce from Will Kopelman. 

The performer’s update came less than two months after she admitted on her show that she had not been in an ‘intimate relationship’ since 2016. 

Barrymore opened up about practicing abstinent as a single mom on her talk show’s blog and how her ‘view on sex has truly changed.’ 

Concerned: While wiping away tears as she interviewed the Baywatch star, 55, on her self-titled daytime talk show on Tuesday, the Charlie’s Angels actress, 47, opened up about her challenges raising kids in the spotlight amid fears for their safety and privacy

‘They didn’t sign up for this,’ the Golden Globe winner said of her littles ones. ‘How did you get through it? Because you raised these incredible boys’

Proceed with caution: Anderson, who shares sons Brandon, 26, and Dylan, 25, with her ex-husband Tommy Lee, advised Barrymore to be ‘careful’ with social media and to ‘make sure that [her little girls] know how to make themselves safe from [a] very young’ age

Supportive: Anderson then comforted the star by saying she was ‘gonna get through this,’ before revealing she once hired a bodyguard ‘to be an assistant P.E. teacher’ at her son’s school to keep them safe

‘At nearly 48 I have very different feelings about intimacy than I did growing up. I did not have role model parents and I engaged with people in grown up ways since a tender age!’ the Golden Globe winner explained. 

In the past, she said she ‘was looking for companionship, validation. excitement, pleasure, hedonism, fun and adventure’ through intercourse.

Since she doesn’t have a ‘time machine’ or way to ‘change’ her history, the mom-of-two said she chooses to ‘look at it through a positive lens.’

‘After two kids and a separation from their father that has made me cautious, I have had the pleasure of shifting my focus when it comes to love for myself and my two daughters,’ Barrymore continued. ‘I know that does not include a man nor has it for a while.’

‘People wanted to take them off the school yard,’ she reflected. ‘I had to find clever ways to make them feel everything was normal [even though] I needed to know eyes were on them’

She then credited her therapist for telling her: ‘Sex is not love! It is the expression of love.’

‘I have searched my whole life to have words like that to help me understand the difference and now, thanks to him, I do,’ the star noted. ‘And since entering life as a single mom, I have not been able to have an intimate relationship.’

While she says she might ‘get into a relationship’ in the near future, she insisted it ‘simply hasn’t been’ her priority.

‘I’m not a person who needs sex and has to go out there and engage with people on that level,’ Barrymore stated. ‘I am someone who is deeply committed to fostering how young girls, my daughters, and myself as a woman, are supposed to function in this world!’

Moving on: In December, Barrymore revealed that she was dating again for the first time since her divorce from Will Kopelman (seen with Kopelman in 2015)

Additionally, she confessed that a ‘relationship with a man has not been top of mind for me for a very long time.’

‘Some people can get out of a marriage or relationship and in the near future find themselves in another relationship. There is nothing wrong with that! Not one bit. I do not judge! I celebrate their journey!’ she said.

For her, however, she said she ‘needed to stay very celibate’ as she mourned ‘the loss of a nuclear family’ that she ‘swore’ that she would have for her daughters.

She went on to conclude that she wishes when she was younger that she ‘had the chastity and the thoughtfulness’ about intimacy that she ahs a 48-year-old woman.

 Parents: She and Kopelman share daughters Olive, 10, and Frankie, eight

‘I wish I had been taught by my mother or my father or my friends that there is age appropriateness business and that there is a way to become a classy young woman!’ she added.

Still, she joked she is a ‘naughty monkey who is rebellious and weird and comedic and wacky and doesn’t judge others and really doesn’t want anyone highly involved’ in her choices.

Barrymore then set the record straight that she doesn’t ‘hate sex’ but had ‘the epiphany that love and sex are simply not the same thing.’