at the height of her career demi moore
had the world at her feet she'd walk
down the red carpet with her dark hair
flowing behind her and all eyes were on
her
but no one knew that behind her eyes lay
a woman who had seen more pain and
endured more suffering than anyone could
have imagined her mother saw young demi
as nothing but an item to be sold and
their relationship would be something
that haunted demi for the rest of her
life is it possible that the broken
relationship with her own mother led the
actress to have an estranged
relationship with her own daughters
why is it that demi has struggled to
love and trust the men in her life
and the things i've done
whether i've been proud or
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demi's relationship with her mother was
a very complicated one
her mom virginia king was an alcoholic
and would often drag young demi along
with her to bars in order to get
attention from other men
demi was barely in her teens during this
time and didn't know any better moore
loved her mother and believed that she
was doing the best job she could to
parent her daughter
unfortunately one night at a bar took a
dark turn that demi would never be able
to forget
moore described that on the night she
came home to find an older man
someone that both she and her mother
knew inside their apartment
the man justified his actions by
claiming demi's mother had sold her to
him and proceeded to assault her
young demi was left shaken and
traumatized after that night and
couldn't believe her mother would have
allowed for something like that to have
happened i think in my deep heart no i
don't think it was a straightforward
transaction
but she still did give him the access
and put me in harm's way she confessed
she packed her bags and left the
apartment that night with nowhere left
to go she knew she now had to fend for
herself at just 15 years old this was
not the first time that demi's mother
had put her in a compromising position
along with virginia's alcohol addiction
came bouts of dark depression that would
be completely overwhelming
she often threatened to take her own
life so demi and her stepfather were on
constant high alert over virginia the
first attempt happened when young demi
was just 12 years old with the
unimaginable burden of watching her
mother like a hawk the next thing i
remember is using my fingers the small
fingers of a child to dig the pills my
mother had tried to swallow out of her
mouth while my father held it open and
told me what to do
something very deep inside me shifted
them and it never shifted back
my childhood was over
what makes it worse is this was not the
last of virginia's attempts to take her
own life no one could have ever imagined
what it was like for demi to be put in
that position with her mother and sadly
it was an image that would never leave
her
perhaps it was all the trauma that demi
could never fully process that let her
have such a troubling romantic life
her first marriage to freddie moore
started with adultery right before demi
walked down the aisle aside from the
fact that freddie was already married
when he met the 16 year old demi that
didn't stop them from getting
romantically involved
however that's not the adultery we were
talking about
demi wasn't innocent either in that
department
demi revealed that she snuck out of her
bachelorette party to meet up with a guy
she'd met on a movie set
though she never told who the man was
actor paul carafodez admitted to the
public that he was the mystery man
i couldn't face the fact that i was
getting married to distract myself from
grieving the death of my father demi
confessed referring to the death of her
stepfather
i couldn't get out of the marriage but i
could sabotage it
demi and freddie were married for only
five years before they parted ways in
1985.
just two years later the actress had her
heart stolen by none other than bruce
willis
according to reports willis and moore
got hitched in las vegas in 1987 after
just a few months of dating
and so yes i think i'm a spontaneous
person and at many times in my life i've
been impulsive so i try to really choose
carefully at first demi confessed that
she quote wasn't sure if he wanted to be
married
at the start of their relationship the
actor was allegedly resentful of her
acting career demi was becoming
incredibly popular in hollywood and
perhaps bruce didn't know how to handle
his wife getting all of the attention
a source revealed that he didn't
appreciate demi having to spend so much
time away from the three daughters
soon infidelity rumors began to swirl
around and bruce did nothing but add
fuel to the fire
in an interview for playboy magazine in
1996 the actor said
no woman is going to satisfy a man's
natural impulse to procreate procreate
procreate
it should surprise you that the couple
split two years later they divorced and
agreed to co-parent their three
daughters rumor scout and tallulah belle
willis
the actress went through a period of
anguish when she was not speaking to her
ex-husband
her three children stopped talking to
her urging her to get help
her weight plummeted and one night she
collapsed at a party i guess the
fundamental question that came forward
for me was how did i get here the
actress said i mean from where i started
to what i've experienced where i've been
like how did i get here
like her mother demi battled with
addiction throughout her life i fully
identify as an addict alcoholic when she
managed to tame her addiction to alcohol
and substances rather than find a
healthy habit to replace them with she
became addicted to her third husband
ashton kutcher the couple shares a 16
year age gap and demi admitted that it
was the fact that he was younger that
attracted her at first
he loved my children it wasn't something
he feared he seemed to be comfortable
with the enormity of the ex-husband i
mean you know i felt like i was not
coming with baggage i had trunks
in some way demi felt like if she dated
a younger man that she would be able to
relive her 20s through him however she
quickly became obsessed with him and
turned her back on everyone else in her
life
because i really felt like i had created
an addiction to him that i was a you
know that my codependency in a way i'd
never had before it was her addiction to
ashton that tarnished what little was
left with her relationship with her
daughters
the addiction and the codependency like
my addiction to ashton that was probably
almost more devastating because it took
me seriously away emotionally she
confessed
there were many things that played a
part in the derailment of demi's
marriage to ashjin from the cheating
rumors to the actress's relapse the
couple had all odds pinned against them
but there was one last straw on the
camel's back and that was the tragic
miscarriage that demi had six months
into her pregnancy
demi was devastated by the loss of her
unborn child and she admitted that she
didn't think that ashton understood the
pain that she was going through at the
time she felt like kutcher was too young
to understand her grief no matter how
hard he tried to connect with her
first of all he hadn't carried this baby
and second he was in his 20s at the time
he wasn't remotely late to the game of
fatherhood
his possibilities were not running out
she confessed
after the miscarriage the couple tried
again to conceive another baby naturally
but their attempts continued to fail
they eventually turned to in vitro
fertilization and intrauterine
insemination
unfortunately those attempts failed too
moore then decided to start researching
egg donor options
the pair found a match but kutcher
allegedly backed out at the last minute
ashton told me i don't think i can do
this and i don't know if this is working
she revealed claiming kutcher only gave
her the go-ahead because he didn't think
she'd actually go through with it
demi was heartbroken wanting nothing
more than to have a baby with the man
that she loved but it seemed like they
no longer wanted the same thing anymore
i really lost sight of everything that
was right in front of me
which is the family i had
the couple separated in 2011 and
finalized their divorce two years later
but demi had an even more difficult task
ahead of her now that there was no
longer another man in her life she
turned all her attention amending the
broken relationship with her three
daughters
i wish i would have
allowed them to see me
weak more often
demi moore's relationship with ashton
and all the toxic events that occurred
during that time caused what seemed like
an irreparable rift with her daughters
scout and tallulah hadn't spoken to
their mother for three years
rumor and her youngest sister explained
exactly how their relationship with
their mother started to unravel
tallulah was nine years old when moore
who spent years lying about her sobriety
relapsed
eventually rumor and scout moved out
leaving their youngest sister to
navigate their mother's illness alone
i was so angry because i felt like
something that was mine had been taken
away yeah it was like oh well we're not
enough but then i found these pictures
and i was like oh my god i saw how big
her stomach was and i was like oh my god
like i was so insensitive during this
time tallulah felt forgotten by her
mother who was completely absorbed in
her relationship with kutcher
and i felt like i
developed and i nurtured a narrative
that she didn't love me
the four women were eventually able to
reconcile and in a 2020 mother's day
instagram post tallulah revealed it only
happened through a metamorphosis of
inward self-reflection and a mallee
ability to forgive
since then she's made a massive effort
to break through the ceiling of her
personal rock bottom
moore entered rehab for trauma
codependency and substance abuse
received treatment for her health issues
and slowly mended the relationship she
had with her daughters
it seems like things are finally looking
up for demi and she's got some acting
gigs lined up for her fans too
we hope that she's able to find the
happiness that she deserves after
everything she'd had to go through
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