Andie MacDowell is making the most of her empty nest.
The actress shared on “The Drew Barrymore Show” Thursday that she relocated from Los Angeles to South Carolina to fill the “huge void” in her life.
“I’m happier now than I have been in a long time,” she said, noting that she has been “taking really good care of” herself while living on her own.
MacDowell, 66, acknowledged that “it took [her] forever” to get to this place since her kids — son Justin Qualley, 38, and daughters Rainey Qualley, 35, and Margaret Qualley, 30 — were such an “important” part of her day-to-day life.
The “St. Elmo’s Fire” star praised her youngest child for pushing her to enjoy the transition.
“Margaret really was kind of telling me I was supposed to be having the time of my life, but I wasn’t,” she recalled. “But now I am. I’m having the time of my life now. It’s really good.”
The former model assured Drew Barrymore that she could walk the talk show host, 49, through the “hard” process when her daughters, Olive, 12, and Frankie, 10, move out one day.
“I’ll tell you what not to do,” MacDowell told the host. “Come to me, because I have all the information on how not to waste your time, how to get on with it and have a good time. I’ll tell you.”
MacDowell welcomed Justin, Rainey and Margaret while married to Paul Qualley from 1986 to 1999.
After the former couple called it quits, the Golden Globe nominee had a short-lived marriage to her former high school classmate Rhett Hartzog.
Elsewhere in Thursday’s interview, MacDowell revealed her piriformis syndrome diagnosis, which the Cleveland Clinic defines as muscle spasms compressing the sciatic nerve and causing pain and numbness.
The “Maid’ star shared her “miracle” treatment with viewers after previously thinking she would need hip surgery.
“I have to work my tiny little bottom and my hips [with a personal trainer]. I do it every day,” she explained.
“I do love to work out. That is my great fortune, because I have had friends that are frustrated because they don’t enjoy it, but I really do enjoy it.”
By “working out really hard,” MacDowell joked that she has kept herself from “falling apart” and needing “new pieces.”
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