No one is safe from the horrors of online dating and that includes well-known celebrities.
48-year-old Drew Barrymore spoke about her distrust of dating apps on her eponymous talk show as she spoke on the details of a story where she linked up with a prospective partner who claimed to be a quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams.
The quarterback of the Rams is Matt Stafford, and he has been married to Kelly Stafford since 2015.
She explained she used the man’s career as a way to strike up a conversation.
“Here’s a story – ready for this?” Barrymore began as she explained her experience.
“This guy on my dating app said he was the quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams. So, I wrote to him and I was like, ‘Oh my god, I went to the first practice game’.
“‘I was so frustrated being a girl from Los Angeles who loves football and we didn’t have any teams, and then I moved away to New York and then we got two teams and—it’s nice to meet you, my name is Drew’.”
Barrymore really seemed to think she was speaking to a football player, but it wasn’t long before the truth came to light.
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“He was not the quarterback for the LA Rams,” Barrymore said. “He’s a musician that thought he was being cute.”
Barrymore didn’t reveal the identity of the catfishing musician, but we know that it wasn’t Matt Stafford. He is married to his college sweetheart, Kelly Stafford, with whom he shares four children.
Barrymore asked the audience how she should ‘feel about this’.
The actor made clear she wasn’t trying to ‘land a football player,’ but she was simply ‘excited’ to talk about how she had been a fan of the Rams from the start.
It got worse for her as the catfishing man referred to Barrymore as ‘Drewski’ – a nickname she did not enjoy.
“I was like ‘I hate you. You pithy, deceiving, playful… you’ve made me feel stupid, I don’t know who you are […] I hate you!’,” Barrymore recalled.
