Drew Barrymore recently opened up while hosting "The Drew Barrymore Show" about how Taylor Swift has inspired her to date again after being single and celibate for the past seven years. Barrymore, 48, has previously admitted that after her split from ex-husband Will Kopelman, she chose to stay single and celibate. However, with Swift's new romance with Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce in the spotlight, it has inspired Barrymore to step outside of her comfort zone. "I just want to say for me personally, I have been single for seven years. Happily seeing her on that first date, out there in the box with his family – I really had a very big Oprah ‘aha’ moment. There was something so normal about it," the actress said while hosting "The Drew Barrymore Show."

Last month, the popstar began her romance with Kelce by attending a Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium where she sat in a suite with Kelce's mom, Donna. The pair has been spotting numerous times since and Swift has continued to cheer Kelce on from the stands with his family. Barrymore was inspired by how "normal" the whole thing was. "It was just like, 'I'm a female. I'm going to go out on a date with a male. I'm not going to overthink this. I'm not going to play the dark horse and be secretive and weird about it,'" she explained. "It was like she just went on a date and it made me think I could just go out on a date." Barrymore revealed that this led her to ask a guy she has been seeing on-and-off for the last three years to a wedding as her date. "I invited him to a wedding next weekend, and he said, ‘Wow, after three-and-a-half years, you are going to invite me to a wedding? Something about Taylor Swift dating like a normal person and not being a dark horse about it. I was like, I overthink everything, I should just go on a date."

Last year, Barrymore opened up about her choice to stay celibate after her split from Kopelman in 2016. The pair was married for four years and share two daughter together: Olive and Frankie. "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! Because for some people that really works. It didn’t work for me," Barrymore wrote in a blog post at the time. "I needed to stay very celibate and honoring and in some sort of state of mourning of the loss of a nuclear family that I swore I would have for my daughters and to find grace and acceptance and what our new normal of a blended family would be." She continued by saying, "It took time. I’m proud of myself that I took that time. That's what I, as my own individual and no one else just me, needed to do and I honored that and I respect myself for it, as I respect anyone else for their choices. I have just simply come to laugh about the fact that it is not my personal priority to be with a partner, but that doesn’t mean it won’t become one someday. I need time. And my view on sex has truly changed."