at the height of her fame demi moore was
the highest paid actress in hollywood
but the second she stepped off the red
carpet she was forced to reckon with her
troubled past
and her journey toward healing didn't
happen overnight this is the tragic
real-life story of demi moore
when moore was a child her stepfather
gave her an unimaginable task
according to the new york times the
future actress was enlisted to help him
prevent her mother from attempting to
take her own life
the first attempt happened when the star
was only 12 years old and she outlined
the harrowing moment when she rushed to
her mother's aid and her memoir inside
out
writing 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
then and it never shifted back
my childhood was over and it wasn't the
last time
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8255 more has a dating history that
at times sounds as troubling as it is
high profile
according to us weekly this includes an
engagement to saint elmo's fire co-star
emilio estevez
and a fling with john cryer but none of
her relationships started off on a worse
foot than her first marriage to rock
musician freddie moore who was already
hitched when the pair jumped into their
romance
the magazine reports that moore met the
it's not a rumor singer when she was 16
years old and admittedly didn't have
quote much concern for his wife
it didn't seem she had much concern for
freddie either she owned up to cheating
on him the night before their wedding
in inside out 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 didn't name names actor
paul carafodas told dailymailtv that he
was the other man
claiming that demi had quote scaled a
fire escape and climbed through his
kitchen window during their secret tryst
referencing her stepfather's taking of
his own life moore wrote in her memoir
i couldn't face the fact that i was
getting married to distract myself from
grieving the death of my father
i couldn't get out of the marriage but i
could sabotage it demi and freddie
separated in 1985.
moore and bruce willis spent much of
their 11 year marriage running from the
paparazzi which probably wasn't that
difficult
once the pair left hollywood according
to harper's bazaar moore bailed on her
movie career at the height of her
success
to become a stay-at-home mom in idaho
but this semblance of normalcy was just
a veil the actors were still two of the
most famous people on the planet and
a high-profile divorce was potentially
disastrous
according to reports from people and the
sun willis and moore got hitched in las
vegas in 1987
after a few months of dating this hasty
commitment seemed to be a point of
contention for willis who
as moore wrote in her memoir wasn't sure
if he wanted to be married he was
allegedly resentful of her acting career
because it took her away from their
family
ad infidelity rumors fueled by a
disastrous 1996 playboy interview where
willis admitted
no woman is going to satisfy a man's
natural impulse to procreate
procreate procreate and the pair
separated in 1998.
by 2000 they were divorced and
co-parenting their three daughters
rumor scout and tallulah belle willis in
her memoir moore revealed she's very
proud of her divorce it could have been
bitter but it ultimately strengthened
her bond with bruce she claimed they
quote felt more connected than they did
before the divorce hollywood is
notorious for its impossible beauty
standards and at the height of moore's
fame she certainly got swept up in all
of it
in inside out moore revealed that she
developed an intense obsession with
working out when she started training
for her role in a few good men
the obsession lasted five years at first
moore's workouts began as a way to lose
pregnancy weight for the role after
having her daughter scout
moore who was breastfeeding ended up
quote excessively exercising to the
point that her breast milk was depleted
of
fat and scout's growth became stunted
the actress had to start supplementing
it with formula which crushed her but
not enough to stop
during her next film and decent proposal
moore says she doubled down on her
over-the-top routine and started
restricting her diet until she developed
walking pneumonia
she briefly relented but found herself
cutting out all carbs except for a
carefully measured bowl of morning
oatmeal while working on striptease
moore wrote eating disorders are crazy
they are a sickness but that doesn't
make them
less real according to people gi jane
required more to seriously bulk up and
that actually helped end
the obsession she had reached her limit
and couldn't take another round of
nearly starving herself as well as
intensely exercising to fight her
natural body
after reflecting on her body image
problems the actress turned her home gym
into an office
and never looked back like her parents
moore struggled with addiction
throughout her life
according to the new york times this
included alcohol abuse cocaine abuse
binge eating and even admitted addiction
to her third husband ashton kutcher
and inside out she revealed that she
viewed the relationship as a sort of
do-over of her twenties a chance to
experience
youth in a way she wasn't previously
able but it quickly turned into an
obsession
during a red table talk interview with
jada pinkett smith moore admitted
the addiction and the codependency like
my addiction to ashton
that was probably almost more
devastating because it took me
seriously away emotionally morse
relationship with kutcher and the drug
and alcohol relapse that came with it
deeply damaged the bond she had with her
daughters so much so that scout and
tallulah didn't speak to her for three
years
in their red table talk appearance rumor
and her youngest sister explained
exactly how their relationship with
their moms 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
when she wanted to have another baby it
was like and then it wasn't happening
and then there was so much focus on that
it was like oh well
we're not enough during that time
tallulah felt forgotten by her mom who
was completely absorbed
in her relationship with kutcher she
admitted i felt like i developed and
nurtured a narrative where she didn't
love me and i truly believed it
rumor was the only one of moore's
daughters that went in and out of
contact with the star
serving as the ambassador for the family
the four women were eventually able to
reconcile and in a 2020 mother's day
instagram post
tallulah revealed it happened through a
metamorphosis of
inward self-reflection and a
malleability to forgive
there isn't one thing that led to the
disillusion of moore's marriage to
kutcher
by all accounts it seemed like a slow
burn filled with betrayal
relapse and codependency but above all
the couple's bond was prematurely
fractured by moore's miscarriage which
seemed like the last straw
moore who lost the baby when she was
about six months pregnant revealed the
devastating loss in her memoir
at the time she felt like kutcher was
too young to understand her grief no
matter how hard he tried to connect with
her
she wrote 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
after the miscarriage moore and kutcher
still tried to conceive
naturally a few months later they turned
to in vitro fertilization
when that didn't work more started
researching egg donor options
the pair found a match but kutcher
allegedly backed out last minute
moore explained ashton told me i don't
think i can do this and i don't know if
this is working
she claimed kutcher only gave her the
go-ahead because he didn't think she'd
actually go through with it
the pair separated in 2011 and finalized
their divorce
two years later according to people
magazine
moore's marriage to kutcher was plagued
with cheating rumors which she seemingly
confirmed in her memoir
the actress detailed her tumultuous
union and alleged that the dude wears my
car star
used threesomes as a way to blur the
boundaries of their relationship and
justify his reported infidelity
discussing the pair's threesomes she
wrote i put him first so when he
expressed his fantasy of bringing a
third person into our bed i didn't say
no
they were good people but it was still a
mistake i was strangely flooded with
shame
i couldn't shake the feeling that this
whole thing was somehow my fault
moore claimed that those threesomes
opened the door for kutcher's infidelity
he reportedly cheated on her twice the
second instance allegedly occurring with
a 21 year old woman while she was
filming another happy day
the year the movie premiered the couple
called it quits though it doesn't seem
like kutcher shares the same perspective
according to the sun he went on a tweet
spree
asking fans to text him for truth and
claiming he was going to send out quote
a really snarky tweet
but he decided to delete it instead
kutcher never publicly explained what
the truth was but it seems like there's
possibly a second
side to the story moore has dealt with
substance abuse for decades
according to the guardian she went into
rehab in the mid-1980s for drug and
alcohol addiction but she managed to
stay sober for 20 years
that started to unravel during her split
with kutcher while speaking with the new
york times moore revealed that her
miscarriage was the tipping point
and she began to drink more heavily and
abuse vicodin
it was like the sun went down and like
like
like a monster came this came to a head
in 2012.
according to reports from the guardian
and the new york times moore weighed
just 102 pounds when she had quote a
seizure after smoking synthetic cannabis
and
inhaling nitrous oxide at a party with
rumor during the red table talk episode
rumer admitted i was there in the other
room with 911 panicking
because i'm like either my mom's gonna
die and i'm not gonna
be in the room and i'm gonna feel the
guilt of that for the rest of my life
or i'm gonna be there and see this image
of my mom that i will never get out of
my head
and i think it was a moment
that i was somehow being given a
choice according to people moore checked
into rehab
shortly after her hospital visit with
the support of her three daughters
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from kutcher according to the new york
times her career had flatlined her
relationships fractured and her health
had begun to fall apart
moore's organs began slowly shutting
down making simple tasks like watching
tv
almost impossible though she never
revealed her exact diagnosis she did
tell the publication that in her words
the root was a major heavy viral load
since then she's made a massive effort
to rise again from her personal rock
bottom
moore entered rehab for quote trauma
codependency and substance abuse
received treatment for her health issues
and slowly mended the relationships she
had with her daughters
just before the release of her tell-all
memoir in 2019
moore also got her acting career back on
track with a number of film
and tv projects she'll also appear in
the 2020 tv series brave new world
and it seems as though things are
finally looking up
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