Demi Moore has been through it, and so have her daughters.
She sat down with her daughters, Tallulah And Rumer Willis (who she shares with ex-husband Bruce Willis) on Facebook Watch’s Red Table Talk . Things got intense when they approached the subject of Demi’s recent relapse.
Demi recently released a book.
Called Inside Out , the book is a memoir of her life beyond the big screen.
Her personal life takes a front seat in the book, and she held no detail back.
The book is incredibly self-aware.
As she wrote in the book, “if you carry a well of shame and unresolved trauma inside of you, no amount of money, no measure of success or celebrity, can fill it.”
That trauma started young.
Beginning with her father enlisting a young Demi’s help to keep her mother from committing suicide, and continuing with her parents’ separation and the unsettling truth that her father was not actually her biological father, Demi detailed her childhood with heartbreaking honesty.
At 15, the worst happened.
Her teenage years were halted at 15, when she was raped. As she put it:
“When I was younger, I was obligated to be of service. I wouldn’t be loved if I wasn’t — if I didn’t give of myself. My value was tied into my body.”
So she recaptured her youth with Ashton Kutcher.
With Ashton, “I could just go back in time and experience what it was like to be young, with him — much more so than I’d ever been able to experience it when I was actually in my twenties.”
And then her addiction began to take over.
Unbeknownst to the public, Demi had conceived and miscarried a child with Ashton early into their relationship.
While they were trying for a second time, she was heavily drinking. She began abusing Vicodin during fertility treatments.
As we all know, Ashton cheated on Demi.
Demi’s behaviour post-separation began to send her into a spiral, both mentally and physically.
She was partying with Rumer when she had an adverse reaction to smoking synthetic cannabis and inhaling nitrous oxide, resulting in a seizure.
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Scout and Tallulah had already distanced themselves.
After the seizure, Rumer stepped back, too.
Enter the book deal for Inside Out , medical treatment, and a huge reality check for Demi.
Now, she and her daughters have a solid relationship.
They sat down with “Red Table Talk” to break things down.
Demi, Rumer, and Tullulah, sat down with Jada Pinkett-Smith, Willow Smith, and Jada’s mother, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, for Facebook’s Red Table Talk .
In a sneak peek from Monday’s episode, the two daughters discuss their experiences with a mom they barely understood.
Tallulah described her as a monster.
Jada asked Tallulah, “What was it that was scary and unsafe for you in regards to your mother’s relapse?”
She had an immediate answer. “It’s like the sun went down and like, a monster came.”
The physical signs of intoxication would tip her off.
“I remember there’s just the anxiety that would come up in my body when I could sense that her eyes were shutting a little bit more, the way she was speaking.”
Even her attitude towards her daughters changed.
“Or she would be a lot more affectionate with me if she wasn’t sober.”
It looks like their family is so close-knit, so a statement like that is hard to hear. And must have been even harder to live.
Rumer had the same experience.
Rumer agreed. “It was just jarring.”
“It was very weird, and there were moments where it would get angry.” Tallulah continued.
Demi watched her talk silently. She only nodded along when the girls spoke.
They lost sight of who their mom used to be.
“I recall being very upset and kind of treating her like a child and speaking to her like a child. It was not the mom that we had grown up with.”
Their episode will premiere Monday.
They’ll also talk about their family dynamics, as well as the revelation that they all didn’t speak for three years.
And as for Scout? She’s proud of her mom for “doing the internal work that she didn’t have the time to do, for a long time, because she was just in survival mode.”
