Note: This article discusses suicide and addiction issues.
At different points in her career, Demi Moore has been a lot of things.
She’s been a tabloid fixture, a reliable performer, an activist, and a social media pioneer.
She asked herself, “How did I get here?”
Demi Moore’s troubled childhood
Demi Moore was born Demi Guynes in Roswell, New Mexico.
“There were dependable routines at the hospital enforced by real grown-ups,” she wrote.
That provided a stark contrast to the way she was living.
Her family moved dozens of times when she was a child.
Her mother struggled with substance abuse, and her stepfather behaved erratically, too.
One night, he got drunk and decided to clean his gun.
Not an ideal way for a kid to grow up, to say the least.
Moore’s stepfather eventually tasked her with preventing her mother’s many suicide attempts.
“Something very deep inside me shifted then, and it never shifted back.”
She realized, “My childhood was over.”
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Their neighbor was Nastassja Kinski, daughter of German star Klaus Kinski, and they struck up a friendship.
“She was so self-possessed, so comfortable in her own skin,” Moore recalled inInterview Magazine.
Several things happened for Moore in quick succession.
First, she married musician Freddy Moore in 1980, when she was only 18.
The part changed everything.
They ultimately divorced in 1985, shortly after Demi left “General Hospital.”
“The soap opera was not where I wanted to be.
It was just a starting-off point,” she said in Interview Magazine.
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He told her, “If I hear of you having even one beer, you’re fired.”
Schumacher told a similar story toPeople.
“She’s been sober ever since,” Schumacher said.
Shortly after they split, she went with him to the premiere of a film called “Stakeout.”
“But in truth it was overwhelming.”
Shortly thereafter, Moore realized she was pregnant.
Less than a year later, she became a mother for the first time.
“I don’t believe there are accidents or coincidence[s],” she insisted.
She didn’t even ask for permission.
Still, she defended her decision, insisting, “I think it worked!”
After the very first review of “Ghost” was negative, she made a decision.
Moore also addressed what was becoming a considerable amount of backlash to her increased fame.
I ask for what I want," Moore responded to critics.
She turns to stripping.
one studio executive toldEntertainment Weekly.
However, Moore’s salary had a halo effect for other women.
Sharon Stone’s manager told EW, “It’s great.
It’s forcing every woman’s salary up.”
Ultimately, “Striptease” was not well-received.
Her shaved G.I.
“That’s unbelievable!”
Letterman exclaimed, rubbing Moore’s freshly-shorn scalp.
That interview set the tone for how audiences would receive the film.
Jane" joke at the 2022 Oscars, more than two decades after the movie.
After all, Moore was playing a woman who joined the Navy SEALs, so she had little choice.
These days, of course, Moore has more say.
“We don’t sit around thinking, ‘Hey, honey, do you believe it?
We’re the hottest couple in town!'”
She pointed out that they had children almost immediately after getting together.
Willis seemed “ambivalent” about their marriage, while she was able to fend for herself.
“So Bruce and I were trapped in our dance,” she said.
“He felt locked out by my self-reliance, which … fed his ambivalence about our marriage.
And on and on, toward infinity.”
They announced their separation in 1998 and were divorced by 2000.
That year, Willis spoke withRolling Stoneabout being unable to figure out where they went wrong.
Still, he said, they were devoted to their daughters.
“I still love Demi,” he said.
“We’re very close … Our friendship continues.
The institution has been set aside.”
Kutcher and Moore poked fun at the age gap in his “Saturday Night Live” monologue in 2005.
They married later that year.
A source toldPeople, “They are so happy together.”
Over time, Moore bristled at the “cougar” nickname.
“I’d prefer to be called a puma.”
Regardless of the years between them, Moore insisted that their relationship was deeper than she expected.
“I can fail and have someone who loves me just the same.”
Unfortunately, the relationship was not meant to last.
They finalized their divorce in 2013.
“Hope you are joking,” she wrote at first (viaCNN).
Moore later updated her followers, letting them know that the police had saved the woman in danger.
Posey, for her part, resisted Moore’s insistence that she join the site.
Early in her career, in her infamous 1991Vanity Fairinterview, Moore expressed an interest in making a difference.
“My desires connect in some way with helping children,” she said.
“I think I need to find a charity.”
In those early days on Twitter, Moore was able to raise awareness of sex trafficking and child exploitation.
She and Kutcher launched The DNA Foundation, and she frequently tweeted about its work.
“We want to have some effects on legislation,” she toldHarper’s Bazaar.
Rumors of drug problems flew fast and furious.
“Demi is a mess,” one source toldPeople.
Moore had previously gone to rehab in the 1980s before her star really took off.
People noted that she had been publicly sober for decades, but that may have changed.
“Demi has had too much pride to come clean about her issues,” one source said.
After the frightening experience, Moore took stock of her life.
Finally, she explained, “I decided to sit still … and face myself.”
Moore is helping care for her former partner.
Because there’s great beauty and sweetness and loving and joy out of that," she said.
In 2024, Moore made a high-profile return to prominence in “Feud: Capote vs.
The Swans,” a drama aboutTruman Capote’s relationship with several high society socialites.
After all these years, she’s decided to let that go.
“What matters,” she said, “is how we relate to ourselves.”
