Demi Moore Says Her ‘Addiction’ to Ashton Kutcher Was ‘Devastating’

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In late 2011, he was hospitalized with pancreatitis and was told that if he didn’t stop drinking, he wouldn’t see his next birthday. “I still put it off and was trying to slow down on my own, like, ‘All right I’m only gonna let myself take two pills today. I’m only gonna drink this much of my bottle and make a mark on the bottle,'” he recalled. “And it would work a couple days—and then somebody throws demi moore alcoholic a party.” In 2018, she recalled battling her addictions to sex and alcohol.

Breaking News, Entertainment, Exclusive Interviews & More. The actress, 56, appeared alongside her daughters, Tallulah and Rumer Willis, on the most recent episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch series “Red Table Talk” and got candid about her life and her struggles with addiction. When Tallulah was in treatment, one family day at the center was the first time she, Rumer, Scout, Bruce and Demi had been together in a long time. As they all began speaking again, Rumer recalled feeling frustrated with her mother, who didn’t understand why they had been estranged for so long. Demi Moore has revealed how Ashton Kutcher used to humiliate her during their marriage by sharing pictures of her drunk and passed out as she battled alcoholism.

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• “There were ups and downs and days nobody thought things could ever be right again,” a source tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.
• “And I’m allowed to be on them at some dosage because I have a prescription and then I’m also augmenting that.”
• “I made my own story up, that he wanted somebody that he could have wine with and do stuff,” the “Ghost” star said.
• “Demi was like the best friend you can have from a professional make-up artist’s point of view,” Persin tells The Independent of working with the movie star.
• The actress, who was joined by daughters Tallulah and Rumer Willis, has previously said she lost a baby girl she would have named Chaplin Ray.
• Reps for Kutcher didn’t immediately return our request for comment.

By 2011, Moore was estranged from two of her three daughters — Scout and Tallulah — and from ex-husband Bruce Willis. Demi Moore was on a romantic vacation with ex-husband Ashton Kutcher when she broke her sobriety of nearly 20 years. “There were ups and downs and days nobody thought things could ever be right again,” a source tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.

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“My sort of addictions jump. They jump around. When I was younger, I definitely think I had a sex addiction of some kind, yes, that everything could be fixed by sex,” she said, before sharing about the time she realized she’d developed a troubling drinking problem. “I feel like there’s a defining moments in our lives that shape who we are and the direction we go and early in my career, I was spiraling down a path of real self-destruction and no matter what successes I had, I just never felt good enough,” the star recalled. “I had absolutely no value for myself and this self-destructive path, it very quickly brought me to a real crisis point and it wasn’t clear at the time the reason. Maybe it was divine intervention.” “Last time I quit drinking, it was for the relationship,” he reflected on the series last February.

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In her book Moore tells readers she was raped when she was 15 and her mom set up the abuse.

After an incident in Newport Beach where the Olympic swimmer tried to kick in his own hotel room door, Lochte made the decision to seek treatment in 2018. “Ryan has been battling from alcohol addiction for many years and unfortunately it has become a destructive pattern for him,” his rep told E! “He has acknowledged that he needs professional assistance to overcome his problem and will be getting help immediately.”

“Demi was like the best friend you can have from a professional make-up artist’s point of view,” Persin tells The Independent of working with the movie star. Hailed as one of the most grotesque films in recent times, Coralie Fargeat’s body horror The Substance has made waves with its striking visuals and gruesome depictions of the female body. Words have the ability to cut through any defense, and Demi Moore admits that she gave that producer’s comments too much power. She admits that she believed that while she could find work – playing the villain in a Charlie’s Angels movie, as an example – she wouldn’t be allowed by the industry to participate in the prestige projects. The most important part of that is that what that person said or didn’t say is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if they actually meant it as I took it, but it’s what I made it mean about me, and it’s that I believed that I was never someone who would think or even consider that I could be acknowledged or honored for my work.

• “She was this larger than life being and I’m completely obsessed with her, I love her more than anything.”
• The actress credits two people she “barely knew” for giving her the ultimatum that saved her life and led to recovery.
• The two were married for eight years before they divorced in 2013.
• “And it wasn’t clear at the time the reason — maybe it was divine intervention — but two people who I barely knew stepped up and took a stand for me, and they presented me with an opportunity.”
• “I just felt like it didn’t represent us and I felt like it was a really limited perspective,” says the Ghost star.
• The actress, 56, appeared alongside her daughters, Tallulah and Rumer Willis, on the most recent episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch series “Red Table Talk” and got candid about her life and her struggles with addiction.
• Demi Moore reiterated claims that her ex-husband Ashton Kutcher contributed to her breaking her 20-year sobriety by questioning whether alcoholism is even real.

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The double then sews up the torso-long gash, and viewers are treated to close-ups of the needle piercing flesh, complete with juicy sound effects. Fargeat’s insistence on practical effects over VFX meant that Demi Moore, who has scored her first Oscar nomination for her performance in the film, endured hours of prosthetic enhancements. Sean O’Connell is a journalist and CinemaBlend’s Managing Editor. Having been with the site since 2011, Sean interviewed myriad directors, actors and producers, and created ReelBlend, which he proudly cohosts with Jake Hamilton and Kevin McCarthy. And he’s the author of RELEASE THE SNYDER CUT, the Spider-Man history book WITH GREAT POWER, and an upcoming book about Bruce Willis. Let’s talk, again, about the stories that form around Oscar campaigns.