Barrymore: I look like a Zombie

Drew Barrymore is finding it more difficult to cope with her insomnia as she gets older, and she's worried she's beginning to look increasingly exhausted.

Drew Barrymore is finding it more difficult to cope with her insomnia as she gets older, and she's worried she's beginning to look increasingly exhausted.

The actress has been fighting the sleep-depriving disorder for years but recently the constant tiredness has started to get to her.

She says: "I'm getting older so those dark circles are really starting to show.

"Before, it was just evident like inside in the feeling. Now I'm starting to look like the Night of the Living Dead.

"I sit there at like four in the morning and I'm like, 'Why can't I sleep, why?' I'm just nuts, so basically I'm crazy and I'm a workaholic and I think that has an effect on my insomnia."

Barrymore has discovered that reading is the best way to combat her insomnia: "My greatest tool is a book. When I read, even if I read for two hours, eventually I will get to sleep."

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