Drew Barrymore learned the hard way that pal Lucy Liu will always have her back. 

On the Monday episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the Red One star revealed she once found her Charlie’s Angels co-star hiding in the bushes outside her house. 

The story came about when Barrymore, 49, credited Red One star Kiernan Shipka, 25, with making her ‘much more of a dating optimist,’ after they shared a girls’ night together. 

The divorced mom of two then turned to Liu, 55, telling her ‘I was thinking, literally, about this time where I came over to your house and I was gonna spend the night ’cause I had just broken up with someone, and I was depressed,’ she said.

Barrymore then turned to the audience and explained, ‘There’s nothing better in heartbreak than your girlfriends. I don’t know what it is for guys, I hope it’s your guy friends,’ she said to loud applause from the audience. 

She then returned to the story, revealing Liu had invited her over and offered to take her out for a drink.

Drew Barrymore learned the hard way that pal Lucy Liu will always have her back. The two shared an embarrᴀssing but hilarious story Monday while Liu was a guest on The Drew Barrymore Show

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‘Well, let’s clarify for a second,’ the Old Guy actress said. 

‘If you don’t remember,’ she said to her longtime pal.

She then addressed the camera, ‘I found her hiding in my bushes.’ Then both women burst into laughter at the recollection.

‘She rang the gate,’ Liu continued, ‘and she was hiding in the bushes and I came out and I was like, “I don’t see anyone here,” and you kind of came out of the bushes with leaves in your hair and you’re like, “I don’t want him to see me here.” 

Liu said she wondered to herself what the Smile 2 actress was doing but told her to ‘get in the house!’

The two old friends did not say when the incident happened or from whom the nervous star was trying to hide. 

Barrymore has been married three times. Her first marriage was to bar owner Jeremy Thomas in 1994. She was 19 and the time and he was 31. 

The relationship quickly ended and they separated after 19 days with the young actress claiming Thomas, who was born in Wales, was interested in her for her money and a green card. 

In 1999, she began dating comedian and actor Tom Green, 53.

Liu, 55, and Red One co-star Kiernan Shipka, 25, were promoting their new film Red One, when  Barrymore, 49, credited Shipka with making her ‘much more of a dating optimist,’ after they shared a girls’ night together

That’s when Liu reminded her Charlie’s Angels co-star about a particular night in which she found the Never Been Kissed star hiding in the bushes outside her home. ‘You kind of came out of the bushes with leaves in your hair and you’re like, “I don’t want him to see me here”

Both women burst into laughter at the recollection, revealing Barrymore was trying to hide from the boyfriend she’d just broken up with. They did not reveal who the man was or when it happened

They got engaged in 2000 and tied the knot in 2001, but the marriage was over by the end of the year with Green filing for divorce in December 2001. 

Barrymore married art consultant Will Kopelman in June 2012 and welcomed their daughter Olive, 12, later that year, followed by little sister Frankie, 10 in 2014. 

The couple split in 2016, but maintain a good co-parenting relationship. 

Barrymore has been married three times, including a short-live marriage to actor Tom Green, 53. They got engaged in 2000 and tied the knot in 2001, but the marriage was over by the end of the year   (Pictured in London in November 2000)

Barrymore married art consultant Will Kopelman in June 2012  (Pictured in Los Angeles in May 2014)

Kopelman and Barrymore welcomed their daughter Olive, 12, in 2012, followed by little sister Frankie, 10 in 2014. The couple split in 2016, but maintain a good co-parenting relationship (Pictured in Los Angeles in December 2014)

Liu, who is mom to nine-year-old Rockwell, said her son loved seeing her in Red One and was ‘so proud of’ his mom. ‘I was stunned and it made me my heart, like, burst open,’ she told the audience

‘I went trick-or-treating on Sunday with Will and his beautiful wife Allie, my daughters’ wonderful stepmother,’ she revealed on the show recently.

‘I think, honestly, this is so ideal. It is the dream. And I love seeing this, I really do. It’s very positive, she said, adding, ‘You’re never not together if you have children.’

Liu, who is mom to nine-year-old Rockwell, said her son loved seeing her in Red One and was ‘so proud of’ his mom.

‘I was stunned and it made me my heart, like, burst open,’ she told the audience.