Actress and television talk show host Drew Barrymore was quick to respond when a fan broke down in tears during a recent taping of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” crossing the set to comfort the woman and demanding to know who had made her cry.

Barrymore spent a few moments talking to the woman, who said she was just a huge fan and was feeling a little overwhelmed — and afterward, the show’s official Instagram account shared video of the exchange on Thursday.

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The actress was seated on set with her guests when she noticed that a woman in the audience was crying. Barrymore got to her feet, asking, “Are you okay? Did anything happen? Whose a** do I have to kick?”

The audience laughed as Barrymore crossed the set to talk to the woman, who waved her hands to fan herself as she got closer. “She loves you so much,” the woman’s friend explained.

“Oh! Oh, God, thank God it’s nothing bad,” Barrymore said as the woman reassured her that she was okay. “Did you see me coming up here? I was like, tell me where they are! Because I will take them down, who made you cry?”

The audience continued to laugh as the woman regained her composure, explaining that Barrymore had been her “childhood idol,” but that she hadn’t wanted to be “that person,” the one who got emotional during the taping — and Barrymore interrupted.

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“Oh, screw that, be that person!” she said, and she walked around the barrier and into the audience seating area to give the woman, who said her name was Olivia, a hug.

“I don’t know why I have the urge to do this,” Barrymore joked, sitting on the woman’s lap and hugging her again. “This is such an honor for me to meet you, I’m sorry, I have dumpling breath.”

Getting up to go back to taping, Barrymore added, “It’s so funny that you would say that you don’t want to cry here, I cry here all the time.”

NFL coaches like Kansas City Chiefs’ Andy Reid and Baltimore Ravens’ John Harbaugh have joined with players to slam the new kickoff fair-catch rule the owners voted to pass, with Reid arguing it’s going turn the game into “flag football.”

On Thursday, league owners voted against opposition by coaches to approve a one-year trial for a rule that puts the ball on the receiving team’s 25-yard line “if there is a fair catch on a free kick (kickoff and safety kick)” anywhere between the 25-yard line and the goal line. This is an attempt to reportedly cut down on injuries, a move some in the NFL said will do the exact opposite, CBS reported.

“My thing is, where does it stop, right?” Chiefs coach Reid said. “We’ll see how this goes. You don’t want to take too many pieces away and you’ll be playing flag football.”

The NFL just passed a rule (for one season) that if a fair catch is made on a kickoff anywhere between the 25-yard line and the goal line, the ensuing drive will start at the 25. The reason for change? Player safety. pic.twitter.com/JTIgkc7ptO

— Steve Wyche (@wyche89) May 23, 2023

Ravens head coach and former special teams coach Harbaugh said, “The fair catch rule, we had a chance to weigh in on that with all the special teams coaches.”

“We had a long talk and discussion about that,” he added. “We weren’t for it. We voted against it. We think it’s going to create more high-speed head trauma than not having it in there. That’s our position on it. But we’ll see. They want to give it a shot and take a look at it.”

Lions coach Dan Campbell said the rule was “highly frustrating” and said that he hates “that we continue to take away from the game. That’s what really worries me. We continue to bleed this. If we’re not careful, it won’t replenish at one point.”

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Meanwhile Super Bowl- winning champion Chiefs player Travis Kelce didn’t hold back, calling the rule “absolutely stupid.”

“I don’t think this is making the game safer,” Kelce said on his “New Heights” podcast. “I think it’s making it more boring. And taking a lot of excitement out of the game’s opening play. This is wack.”

Kelce’s brother, Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce, said, “We’re just getting closer and closer to getting rid of special teams. … We’re just going to have guys, ‘Hey, I’m going to run 80 yards for no reason and then we’re going to start the drive!’”

Green Bay Packers First Team All-Pro kick returner Keisean Nixon wrote on his Instagram, “Lol what is a fair catch?”