First of all, you're on the cover of Bazaar magazine naked.
And did you think if you wore a big hat nobody would
notice that you were naked?
What's the hat, I mean, what was that choice?
You know, it was an amazing hat.
That was the suggested wardrobe, so.
But like, if a big gust of wind came along, you would take off.
It would kind of like The Flying Nun.
Yes.
But a flying naked nun.
Yes.
Yeah.
And I understand-- I heard you talk about this, that you would
do this but you didn't want to get any kind of retouching
or anything.
So this is like you.
I mean, I felt like it was important
that it should be real.
I mean, I felt like it was really brave
that Glenda Bailey was putting a woman almost 57 years old
on the cover of a fashion and beauty magazine.
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And when she suggested that I do one with just a hat,
I just said, that's the only way to do it though.
Sure.
Yeah.
Sure.
Because if you're not going to wear a hat then it's, you know.
Yes.
Exactly.
You're not going to do it.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's get into the book because there's
a lot of sharing in this book.
A whole lot of sharing.
Are you nervous for--
I mean, you wrote it and knew it was going out there.
But you talk about a lot of different things.
Not just your childhood, which was pretty messed up.
But you talk about your relationship
with Bruce, your relationship with Ashton.
Are you nervous?
In a way, I'm nervous for anyone who
is in there, from the point of view of feeling sensitive,
in putting myself in their place.
But overall, no.
I feel so good about the point of view.
Which, for me, I have no interest
in blaming or villainizing anyone.
The journey in the book is about overcoming.
And in a sense, this is my story, my point of view.
If anyone else in the book, including my daughters, if they
see things differently-- and in some cases, they did.
They had some things that they had sensitivity
to because it, being my story, didn't always
allow for the context of, say, things
that created the pain they had of when they weren't speaking
to me.
For me to share, it was truly honest about what
my experience was.
It was coming from where you were--
Yeah.
--and them not talking to you.
OK.
So you talk about Ashton.
Have you talked to Ashton?
I have.
Before this came out?
Yes.
So you talked.
You know, I am friends with Ashton, I am friends with you.
And I read this book, and like you say, it's your experience.
But you talk about that he was not faithful to you,
that he had affairs.
And then you talk about that he kind of instigated
you having threesomes.
And I don't think it should be implied that he instigated.
I think it was--
and again, in trying to keep the perspective on my story.
He expressed something that was of a fantasy,
and it was in my efforts to want to please and be
what I thought he wanted.
Right.
Yeah.
And even though the infidelity, and even though these things
that you just--
you loved him, you wanted to keep the relationship going,
and you just tried to keep it going in that way?
Yeah.
I think that is it.
I think it was a misguided sense of not really wanting
to look maybe at the harder question,
or maybe what was really missing.
Or in my case, because I really felt
like I had created an addiction to him,
that my codependency in a way I'd never had before.
I'd never had that kind of attachment.
Yeah.
I think a lot of people in relationships
can understand that, trying to keep something going and just
ignoring, like you said, the deeper issue
and just saying, well, if I do this.
All right.
We're going to take a break and then
we'll talk about your wonderful relationship
with Bruce and your children.
We'll be back.
We're back with Demi Moore and she has
a new book called Inside Out.
And you talk about your relationship with Bruce Willis
and how you remain friends to this day.
We are.
Yeah.
Which is, really, obviously important
because of the children?
Yeah.
And I think you know I'm really grateful for rolling
all the way back.
It's been a long time since we separated.
That we were both able to be clear
that our children were our priority,
and that whatever we had was not theirs,
and find a way to share it and be
a family in a different form.
And even though it can require just some healing and time,
I think it's made a huge difference in my children's
life, to feel that they didn't have to choose.
Yeah.
It's a hard thing.
I think it's not easy for everybody to do that,
to have a relationship with your ex.
But I think if you can do that, obviously it's
the healthiest thing for everybody.
I was at your wedding with Bruce,
and you describe it in the book.
And it was the greatest wedding I have ever been to.
And I mean, just from everyone singing Bruno's
Getting Married walking down the aisle,
and Little Richard married you all.
It was amazing.
It was a huge spectacle of a wedding.
And it was on two soundstages on this very lot.
You cannot get more Hollywood than that.
Yeah.
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It was fantastic.
So I have to ask, are you dating anyone right now?
No.
By choice.
Yeah.
Do you want to date?
Would you go on an app, like a dating app?
Oh my god.
You know they have those for celebrities now.
No.
Yeah.
You mean, the one that's called Raya?
No.
What is it called?
Raya.
Oh.
See, you know it.
Don't act like you don't know what it is.
I don't know.
I have children that are adults, so I get filled in a little.
No.
I have seven dogs.
I mean--
I think that's illegal, but we'll edit that out.
Yes.
Seven dogs?
Yeah, they're rescues.
You got a rescue.
You got a new one.
I know, I do.
Yeah.
Look at my crew.
Aw!
You probably had more and some fell off that balcony.
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All right.
So let's talk about--
the book really is, I said during the break,
it's really well-written.
It's beautifully written and your story
is really interesting.
You've had an interesting life.
But what do you hope people walk away
with when they read this book?
I mean, I think setting out, I felt like, OK,
is there anything that would be of interest to anyone?
Then I realized it is my story, but maybe--
and I say this in the book-- maybe some part of that
is yours, too.
And in my own journey what I've realized
is that what's happened to me isn't who I am.
And the things I've done--
whether I've been proud or have felt guilt and shame--
are not who I am.
They are just things I've done.
And I can now see that how I hold it though is everything.
And I hope that for anyone reading it,
that they can recognize some part of themselves that
doesn't feel love and start to see that we are love.
Everything that we are, we are love.
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Only thing that's real.
Demi's book is called Inside Out.
It's available today everywhere books are sold.
And today you're all going home with a copy, and we'll be back.