Im happier now than I have been in a long time.

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Andie MacDowell has moved back to theSouthto find a happier life.

I moved toSouth Carolina, and I really, Im taking good care of myself.

Andie MacDowell

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MacDowell told host Drew Barrymore.

When her kids left home, though, she was a little lost.

She was unhappy until she got some tough talk from her daughter.

“Margaret basically told me I needed to get a life,” MacDowell told Barrymore.

“She was right.

I do have a life now.

I created a life.

I figured it out; you know, it took me a while.”

In Hallmark’sThe Way Home,MacDowell plays the complex matriarch of the Landry family, Del Landry.