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Demi Moore Opens Up About Her "Devastating" Relationship With Ashton Kutcher

The actress referred to her former husband as an "addiction" - by Danielle Fowler
  • 05 Nov 2019

Demi Moore has opened up about her eight-year marriage to Ashton Kutcher and the "devastating" impact it had upon her three daughters: Rumer, Tallulah and Scout Willis.

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During a guest appearance on Facebook Watch series Red Table Talk, Moore was joined by two of her daughters, Rumer and Tallulah, for an honest chat with host Jada Pinkett Smith.

In the episode, the actress got candid on her world-famous relationship with Kutcher and how she broke her 20 years of sobriety when the couple started dating.

"The addiction and the co-dependency like my addiction to Ashton - that was probably almost more devastating because it took me seriously away emotionally," the 56-year-old admitted. 

Her youngest daughter Tallulah was just nine-years-old at the time and took the opportunity to speak up on the impact her mother's relationship had on her growing up - especially after her older sisters moved out.

"Watching the behaviour with Ashton, those years, because everyone had left the house and it was just me living there, I felt very forgotten," the 25-year-old said."I feel like I developed and nurtured a narrative where she didn’t love me and I truly believed it. I know that she does, 100 percent but in that moment, you're hurt."

Demi Moore and Her Daughters

When quizzed on why she quit sobriety, Moore replied: "I wanted to be that girl."

"Ashton said, 'I don’t know if alcoholism’s a thing. I think it’s about moderation,'" the actress recalled. "If I had stayed close to working my program… I, of course, lived the majority of my adult life sober. I was great sober."

"I made my own story up, that he wanted somebody that he could have wine with that he could do stuff [with]. He’s not the cause of why I opened that door up," she continued. "I wanted to be something other than who I am. And I gave my power away."

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Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore alongside her three daughters

But it wasn't just her youngest daughter who struggled after Moore's relapse, as Rumer also got candid on her mother's miscarriage which happened two years into the couple's marriage. 

"So much of that time, especially with Ashton, I was so angry because I felt like something that was mine had been taken away," she admitted.

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"And I think also, when she wanted to have another baby, and it wasn't happening and there was so much focus on that, it was like, oh well we're not enough?" Rumer continued. "Part of the reason I moved out of the house was, I think after you had a miscarriage I literally was just like, why are you so desperate to have another kid? And I couldn't stand the idea."

Moore has publicly documented the details of her struggles with addiction in her newly-released memoir Inside Out.

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