Five years after Will Kopelman and Drew Barrymore's divorce was finalized, he's ready to give marriage another try.
The 42-year-old businessman announced his engagement to 34-year-old Vogue director of fashion development Alexandra Michler.
"Love you love you love you love you 1/30/2021 ," he captioned a shot shared to Instagram where he kisses Allie on the cheek while she holds his face, with her ring gleaming.
It's unclear how long Will and Allie have been an item. He shares two daughters, 8-year-old Olive and 6-year-old Frankie, with Drew. Drew has recently been more open about how difficult her divorce from Will was on her and how she's just starting to consider dating again.
Will Kopelman is ready to give marriage another try. Five years after his divorce from wife of four years Drew Barrymore, the 42-year-old businessman is engaged again.
Will shared the news that he proposed to Vogue Director of Fashion Development Alexandra Michler, 34, in an Instagram post.
"Love you love you love you love you 1/30/2021 ," he wrote.
Extending their congratulations to the couple was Will's sister, Odd Mom Out creator Jill Kargman:
"Some joyful news in endless January! ECSTATIC for my fabulous engaged brother @willkopelman and his incredible bride-to-be! Sooo lucky to have you as my sis-in-law @alliemichler ."
News of Will and Allie's relationship was first confirmed to People in December. It's unclear how long they've been an item. Will and Drew announced their separation in April 2016.
"Sadly our family is separating legally, although we do not feel this takes away from us being a family," they said in a statement at the time.
"Our children are our universe, and we look forward to living the rest of our lives with them as the first priority."
Drew recently opened up about how she dealt with the aftermath of divorce in an interview with Willie Geist for Sunday Today. She touched on her decision to stay close with her ex's family after the split.
"I don't think I would have been able to talk about it as openly at first because I couldn't make sense of it," she said.
"I really did not take divorce well. I took it really hard."
"But the good news is that his family and I sort of made the most important choice to be so together and united and connected. That's I guess what they call family," she continued.
"It took me five years to be able to speak with strength, articulation, perspective, hindsight, and see everything we did right because when we were getting divorced, it felt like everything was just wrong. I think it applies to everyone who thinks that something will be forever and it's not."
"It's so hard. I don't think I've recovered from that," she said at the time.
"I don't know how to open that up again. It's like something closed and it stayed closed. I think I'm equally as scared to find love again as I would be as if it never happened."
What's helped her through is her strong relationships with her daughters.
"They're really cool with things. It was interesting because when they were younger this whole life of mine didn't sit as well with them," she said.
"And now it's the exact opposite. Like divorce, things fell into place finally. It's amazing that my kids and I are happy because there's been a lot of times I really did question like would we be happy and we are. So that chokes me up. My girls are happy. I'm happy."
