Author: James Anderson

Demi Moore Lets Her Guard Down The New York Times

At one point, she recalls him saying, “I don’t know if alcoholism’s a thing. I think it’s about moderation.”  So to appease his misconception about her disease, she relapsed and started drinking again, ending twenty years of sobriety. Because, as she says, “When you don’t have an off switch, you go until you can’t go anymore.”  Much worse, Moore claims that Kutcher would mock and shame her by taking pictures of her when she was drunk.

Demi Moore’s first stint in rehab for drug and alcohol addiction came way back in 1996 when St. Elmo’s Fire director Joel Schumacher threatened to fire her from the teen movie if she didn’t get totally clean before the shoot began. She managed to get sober in time and the movie made her a star in the making, but unfortunately for the actress it wouldn’t be her last experience with substance abuse. It is an exercise that she has already undertaken in a memoir, “Inside Out,” which Harper will release on Sept. 24. In January 2012, after months of partying and drastic weight loss, Moore collapsed into convulsions at her L.A. Home and was hospitalized before going to rehab for addiction and an eating disorder, sources told PEOPLE at the time.

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The new book appears to do a lot of finger-pointing, blaming Kutcher for encouraging the couple to have threesomes and break her sobriety, while he allegedly cheated. She also learned of Kutcher’s cheating scandal through media reports. “Because we had brought a third party into our relationship, Ashton said, that blurred the lines and, to some extent, justified what he’d done,” Moore writes. Back in March 2017, Radar Online spoke exclusively with a source close to Demi Moore who revealed that the actress was plotting a huge Hollywood comeback on the back of her role in hit Fox show, Empire. “Demi is trying really hard to get back into the world of TV and movies right now,” the insider said.

Moore also revealed that she got pregnant at age 42 but had a miscarriage six months into the pregnancy, a revelation she also made in the new New York Times profile. Moore said she and Kutcher had tried in vitro fertilization several times as well. In 1982, the staff of General Hospital (Moore got her big break on the long-running ABC soap opera) went out on the town to celebrate the fifteenth birthday of cast member Philip Tanzini. The bespectacled teen had a memorable evening, living out the fantasy of millions of 15-year-old boys growing up in the 1980s — Moore, who was aged 19 at the time, made out with him no less than three times. The former Punk’d presenter told Conan O’Brien (via Telegraph) that he was pretty sure the dolls had souls.

1. She also learned of Kutcher’s cheating scandal through media reports.
2. When she hit 44, she opened up about how difficult it was to be a middle-aged woman in the film industry.
3. She later took a break from Hollywood to raise her three daughters with then-husband Bruce Willis.
4. “I really lost sight of everything that was right in front of me, which is the family I had.
5. “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 told Sawyer.
6. An eating disorder caused her to starve herself, and in college, she battled crippling depression.

In July of that year a 21-year-old man named Edenilson Steven Valle attended a party at Moore’s Beverly Hills home — where he drowned after falling into her swimming pool while intoxicated. Moving forward has proven difficult for Demi Moore, however, and family troubles have only added to her isolation in recent years. The older she got, the more desperately she tried to hang on to her good looks, reportedly turning to plastic surgeons for help. Various tabloid reports claimed the aging actress spent as much as $400,000 on a full body makeover that included collagen injections in her lips, porcelain caps on her teeth and liposuction on her stomach, thighs and bottom. Unlike her Brat Pack buddies, Demi Moore’s career continued to go from strength to strength as the ’90s rolled around, becoming one of the biggest stars in the world with her performance opposite the clay pot-molding spirit of Patrick Swayze in Ghost. The supernatural romance was a surprise box office smash, raking in over $500 million worldwide and going on to become the highest grossing film of 1990.

Just as Virginia Guynes’ addiction-driven behaviors affected her daughter, so were Demi Moore’s issues shared by her daughters, each of whom struggled with substance abuse and body image issues. As recently as 2017, Rumer and Scout both posted on social media announcing their lengths of sobriety, at the time, six months and one year, respectively. Tallulah has written about feeling the need to be the “loud, stupid, drunk girl at the party” and how she smoked a lot of weed as a teenager. She has also revealed that she almost died from alcohol poisoning at the age of 15. An eating disorder caused her to starve herself, and in college, she battled crippling depression.

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She later learned that the man she thought was her dad wasn’t her biological father. Demi Moore’s call for women to unite is particularly timely considering what’s happening in Hollywood right now. But in an unexpected turn of events, the actress has been dragged into the sexual abuse scandal herself — and she’s on the wrong side of it. As the ramifications of prolific predator Harvey Weinstein’s downfall continue to grip Tinseltown, more and more stars are being implicated. Maybe we should have, however, as the evidence has actually been on YouTube for years. When she hit 44, she opened up about how difficult it was to be a middle-aged woman in the film industry.

She joined The Times in 2010 as a MetPro trainee and has reported from homicide scenes, flooded canyons, red carpet premieres and award shows. Willis will celebrate five years sober next month, while Scout and Tallulah have been sober five and seven years, respectively. Moore, 59, revealed in 2019 that she was nearly eight years sober after relapsing in 2012. Thanks to the aforementioned fur coat fiasco, Demi Moore found herself in the dog house with top animal charity PETA, and while that had a negative impact on her public image, it shouldn’t distract from all the philanthropy she’s been engaged in since. The former Brat Pack beauty has put her name to numerous good causes over the years, backing everything from AIDS/HIV and cancer research to support for the homeless. Her biggest passion has always been the abolition of modern day slavery and human trafficking, however, and in 2018 she was honored for her efforts to keep young girls safe from such horrors.

Of course, there’s always a chance that the showrunners might decide to bring her back at some stage, but judging from an interview with executive producer Craig Brewer, that seems highly unlikely. “We were joking that she and Lucious’ mother were sent off to the same insane asylum and are plotting their revenge,” Brewer told TV Line. Demi Moore’s drug problems lead to a period of dramatic weight loss, and before long the fading star had been diagnosed with anorexia according to sources inside her camp. “She collapsed after having an epileptic seizure,” a friend of the underweight actress exclusively revealed to Radar Online. “Demi is getting treated for anorexia as well as other issues that caused her seizure. She has not taken care of her health at all lately and has lost a ton of weight.” In her new memoir, Inside Out, Demi Moore, 57, opens up about her addiction struggles and how it affected her daughters with ex-husband Bruce Willis — Rumer, 31, Scout, 28 and Tallulah, 25.

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The experience was the catalyst that turned things around for the actress. She checked into a rehab program that addressed not only her substance abuse, but also her trauma and codependency issues. Importantly, she also sought help for the other health problems that were plaguing her, namely autoimmune and digestive problems.

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Dan Guynes, her stepfather, was a problem gambler who would change jobs frequently, and as a result,  the family would move an astounding 30 times before finally settling in Los Angeles in 1976. According to the Biography Channel, Dan and Virginia “were alcoholics who often fought and beat each other.” Virginia would eventually be arrested multiple times, including charges for arson and drunk-driving. She tried to commit suicide several times,  and after one attempt, young Demi even had to scoop pills out of her mother’s mouth to save her life. “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 told Sawyer. Surprisingly, Moore dedicated the tome to her mother and her own three daughters. She reveals that, when she was a kid, her teenage mother battled alcoholism and suicide, and Moore remembers, at age 12, digging pills out of her mom’s mouth.

When I went too far, though, he let me know how he felt by showing a picture he’d taken of me resting my head on the toilet the night before,” she writes in Inside Out. But it was really just shaming.” Third, about two years into the marriage, Moore got pregnant, but it unfortunately wasn’t meant to be. She lost the little girl she had planned to name Chaplin Ray, miscarrying at six months. To cope with her emotional pain, Moore drank even heavier and started abusing Vicodin. And when she learned that Kutcher had cheated on her, things quickly went from worse to worst.

Moore described the moment she fell back into addictive habits while on a trip with Kutcher, 41. Friendly House offers a “safe, structured and supportive home-like environment” for women recovering from substance use, according to its website. During her acceptance speech at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, the actress, 55, explained why the non-profit’s mission strikes a chord with her. Dressed in a long-sleeve T-shirt, moccasin boots and a pair of prescription glasses with transition lenses, Moore sat cross-legged on the floor of her living room that late August morning and told me the story of her life.

Demi Moore has struggled to keep it together since her six-year marriage to Ashton Kutcher came crashing down amid allegations that her much younger (15 years, to be exact) husband had been cheating on her with women closer to his own age. The final straw came when 22-year-old part-time model Sara Leal spilled the beans about sleeping with Kutcher on his and Moore’s wedding anniversary (ouch!), prompting the actress to release a statement confirming their split. “As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.” The couple officially called it quits on their six-year marriage in November 2011 after Moore hit a downward spiral and suffered a breakdown before briefly reentering rehab. They reportedly reached a divorce settlement in 2013, not long after Kutcher began dating his “That ’70s Show” costar Mila Kunis, whom he later married and had two children with.