Drew Barrymore wants people to know her real outlook on sex after realizing that some viewers of her eponymous talk show got the wrong impression about how she views sex. Setting the record straight, the actress said that she doesn't "hate sex."

In September, Barrymore reacted to Andrew Garfield's revelation that he abstained from food and sex for six months while filming for his role as a Jesuit priest in Martin Scorsese's 2016 film, "Silence." The actress was unimpressed by Garfield's claim and said that she can go on without sex "for years."

Apparently, some people misunderstood her comment and regarded it as a negative remark about intimacy.

In her new blog post titled, "Rebels Who Love," the actress recalled that a woman approached her after wrapping up a workout class and said, "You look just like Drew Barrymore except for you look like you have mental wellness and besides ... she hates sex!"

After contemplating the woman's words, Barrymore felt the need to explain her view on intimacy and how it has changed over the years from a child star to her wild teenage years and now, as a single mom to two daughters whom she shares with Will Kopelman after announcing their plans for divorce in August.

"At nearly 48 I have very different feelings about intimacy than I did growing up. I did not have role model parents and I engaged with people in grown up ways since a tender age! I was looking for companionship! validation! excitement! pleasure! hedonism! fun! And adventures!! Now, because I can't get in the time machine and change my history," the TV host said in her blog. "So I now choose to look at it through a positive lens, which is that I lived! I lived a very rich full life."

She continued, "I've come to realize through working in therapy (with Barry), he said something and I had to write it down. He said, "Sex is not love! It is the expression of love." I have searched my whole life to have words like that to help me understand the difference and now, thanks to him, I do."

The actress also regrets not learning about the value of chastity when she was younger.

"I wish when I was younger that I had the chastity and the thoughtfulness that I do about intimacy now as a 48-year-old woman," she said.

The actress then added that she doesn't "hate sex" but had "the epiphany that love and sex are simply not the same thing."

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In Picture: Drew Barrymore attends Netflix's 'Santa Clarita Diet' Season 3 Premiere at Hollywood Post 43 on March 28, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images/Presley Ann