Drew Barrymore Fabrizio Moretti a story of love and rock and roll

This little story, a long time agoseemed to personify the very rock spirit of the 2000s: smoked cigarettes on a New York night, Converse and skinny jeans, cool spreads with every little image whether stolen or framed. Indie love par excellence, a collective sparkle of hope for life. Perhaps, first of all, for them. There love story Drew Barrymore and Fabrizio Moretti, the former child diva and multi-lingual drummer of The Strokes, her survival began at an unspecified point in 2002, a few months after the iconic release of the band’s first album, and went through the first five years of the millennium in fits and starts. starts, sublimated in leather nails and long thin scarves (collective glitter, we already said), public kisses, walks in the (un)favor of the paparazzi, front row at fashion shows. Looking at photos today from 20 years ago, we are perfect together. The stereotype of eternal rockers also erupts from the context in which they meet, a concert that is not made clearer, where a spark suddenly ignites, sending them directly to celebrity love stories that ended even if they were good together.

He, Fabrizio Moretti, a Brazilian of Italian descent raised in New York, is one of the most coveted and in-demand musicians of our time: black curls cover his very dark eyes, a smile as rare as an eclipse, he stomps across the skin with an elegant fervor that quickly puts him on the list the best rock drummers of our time. She, Drew Barrymore

, this is… well, Drew Barrymore. A calling card in her own right, a bad girl from Hollywood’s most alcoholic acting dynasty, capable of naturally fueling that painful search for rebellion that show business of the time always craves. Prodigy in ET, in rehab at age 13, suicide attempt at age 14, emancipation from family the following year, accompanied by an autobiography filled with anecdotes, repeatedly naked on Playboy when no one expected it (along with a reprimand from her godfather Steven Spielberg), to the point where she flashed her breasts to David Letterman on live television without creasing. All those who tried to scandalize Hollywood in subsequent years ran into a rubber wall of unusually provocative self-irony Drew Barrymore in his youthso arrogant that he was able to stand on his feet without denying anything of what happened.

At first photos of Drew Barrymore and Fabrizio Moretti that appear in the newspapers are as extensive as the gossip dictates, the hunt for the couple becomes a must on a New York evening. And they march, having fun. There is no shortage of excesses, which in a certain sense everyone expects of them, for example, when they are caught having sex in the bathroom, and Moretti himself tells the newspapers about this: “I had sex in the bathroom at the opera, in New York. We were about to see Bohemia

and it was really boring, so we decided to go to the bathroom and they caught us, it was awkward.” A rock ‘n’ roll script that practically wrote itself, with the tabloids chasing it in every corner of the city. And everything went well together so good that marriage rumors are already spreading, fueled by Drew Barrymore’s quick move to flee Los Angeles to be closer to her fiancé. This, of course, is not true, because she has already gone through two quick divorces: the first with an anonymous bartender, and the second with Tom Green, an MTV host who married and was dumped after 5 months in 2001. For his part, he is the one who is not thinking about getting married yet. “They started talking about this damn marriage from the moment they first saw us together. I don’t know if I believe in marriage that much,” admitted Fabrizio Moretti in 2006 in an interview with the publication Daily news. “I’m probably talking too much, but if I were to marry, it would be to this woman.” But in the meantime, something didn’t go as expected. There have already been two alarm bells, very quick splits that were soon resolved, but were never explained in the press and rightfully remained secret. Renewed rom-com star and box office success 50 times first kiss and continuation Charlie’s Angels with best friend Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore however, he is a star who interests the newspapers in every detail, and his enthusiastic statements about his new life in New York seem to confirm the thesis that the couple can last forever. “Four years later, we are proof of that,” he says happily, as if going against collective expectations was his best revenge. TO Harpers Bazaar in 2007, she said: “I’m at the stage where I’m not even a girlfriend, I’m a best friend who loves you madly.” The news had barely hit the newsstands when the news exploded with disappointment: Together again, as in the beginning, in the end everything somehow works out, but not for them. Drew Barrymore and Fabrizio Moretti they broke upThe IT couple has completed their race.

The final outbreak occurred in 2007, which for many was inevitable given the underlying differences. wild nights and charm they really failed to build a bridge. “He’s younger, she’s more worldly, he doesn’t like Hollywood stuff and he doesn’t understand her friends,” anonymous sources told the press. In fact, the opposite would have happened: Drew Barrymore’s letter would have put an end to the Fabrizio Moretti story, but it was never clarified and there was no need to do a real investigation. The Strokes’ drummer soon had a brief flirtation with Kirsten Dunst and two longer affairs with his colleagues Binky Shapiro and Kristen Wiig, and today, darker and more reserved than ever, he appears to be single (the queue is here, thank you

). Drew Barrymore moved on from Spike Jonze and Zach Braff to a long-term relationship with Justin Long and finally a new marriage to Will Kopelman, with whom she had daughters Olivia and Franke, before she divorced again. She recently returned to talk about Moretti and how it was “one, if not the most important story of my life,” revealing an unpublished anecdote that refutes all negative speculation about the end of their story: “I had to play Meg White. the White Stripes with Jimmy Fallon on Saturday Night Lifeand because I had been with this drummer for many years, Fabrizio Moretti from The Strokes, he taught me how to play this song. Seven Nation Army, gave me lessons the whole week before the show. It was very romantic to learn something that I didn’t know how to do.” The end has no end. To reaffirm that the end of the indie rock love dream wasn’t just about them, it was about all of us.