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‘It was like a monster came’: Demi Moore’s daughters on their mother’s battle with addiction
Demi Moore’s daughters have opened up about their mother’s battle with drug and alcohol addiction.
On Thursday, a preview of the latest episode of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch show, Red Table Talk, was posted on the social media site.
The upcoming episode, which is due to air on Monday, will see Moore discuss her past substance abuse issues alongside two of her daughters, Rumer and Tallulah Willis.
Moore’s third daughter with ex-husband Bruce Willis, Scout, does not appear in the teaser.
The 56-year-old recently documented her struggle with addiction in her new memoir, Inside Out, which chronicles her drug habit during her twenties before she entered rehab.
Created with Sketch. 24 pieces of life advice from celebrities
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Created with Sketch. 24 pieces of life advice from celebrities
1/24 6. Oprah Winfrey
“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” Getty Images2/24 1. Demi Lovato
“No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.” Getty Images3/24 2. Bruce Lee
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” Rex Features4/24 3. Ziggy Marley
“Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.” Getty5/24 4. Winnie The Pooh
“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”6/24 5. Lena Dunham
"I am certainly no self-help guru but here is what I know tonight: when you take the time and space you need, kindly and responsibly, you're suddenly available to the people you love in a whole new way." Getty Images7/24 7. Barack Obama
“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.” AFP/Getty Images8/24 8. Michelle Obama
“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” Getty9/24 9. Lizzo
"I love you. You are beautiful and you can do anything." Getty10/24 10. RuPaul
"The only thing wrong with me was that I thought there was something wrong with me." Getty Images11/24 11. Maya Angelou
“You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” EPA/JIM LO SCALZO12/24 12. Stephen Fry
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.” Getty13/24 13. Meghan Markle
“Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can’t do by yourself.” Getty Images14/24 14. Nelson Mandela
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” Getty Images15/24 15. Haruki Murakami
"And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” Getty16/24 16. CS Lewis
“You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” Rex Features17/24 17. Audery Hepburn
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'.” Getty18/24 18. Ella Fitzgerald
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.” Getty19/24 19. Billy Porter
“For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.” Getty20/24 20. Betty White
“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.” Getty Images21/24 21. Drew Barrymore
"Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” Getty22/24 22. Jane Fonda
“It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” Getty23/24 23. Jennifer Aniston
“There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.” Getty Images24/24 24. Beyonce Knowles
"The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens" Getty Images1/24 6. Oprah Winfrey
“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” Getty Images2/24 1. Demi Lovato
“No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.” Getty Images3/24 2. Bruce Lee
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” Rex Features4/24 3. Ziggy Marley
“Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.” Getty5/24 4. Winnie The Pooh
“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”6/24 5. Lena Dunham
"I am certainly no self-help guru but here is what I know tonight: when you take the time and space you need, kindly and responsibly, you're suddenly available to the people you love in a whole new way." Getty Images7/24 7. Barack Obama
“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.” AFP/Getty Images8/24 8. Michelle Obama
“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” Getty9/24 9. Lizzo
"I love you. You are beautiful and you can do anything." Getty10/24 10. RuPaul
"The only thing wrong with me was that I thought there was something wrong with me." Getty Images11/24 11. Maya Angelou
“You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” EPA/JIM LO SCALZO12/24 12. Stephen Fry
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.” Getty13/24 13. Meghan Markle
“Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can’t do by yourself.” Getty Images14/24 14. Nelson Mandela
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” Getty Images15/24 15. Haruki Murakami
"And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” Getty16/24 16. CS Lewis
“You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” Rex Features17/24 17. Audery Hepburn
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'.” Getty18/24 18. Ella Fitzgerald
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.” Getty19/24 19. Billy Porter
“For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.” Getty20/24 20. Betty White
“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.” Getty Images21/24 21. Drew Barrymore
"Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” Getty22/24 22. Jane Fonda
“It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” Getty23/24 23. Jennifer Aniston
“There are no regrets in life. Just lessons.” Getty Images24/24 24. Beyonce Knowles
"The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens" Getty ImagesThe Ghost actor managed to stay sober for nearly 20 years. However, following her split from third husband Ashton Kutcher in 2012, Moore relapsed, turning to alcohol and Vicodin.
In the short clip, Tallulah details how the family coped with their mother’s relapse, revealing that it drove a wedge between them.
“It was like the sun went down and like a monster came,” Tallulah said.
“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. Or she would be a lot more affectionate with me if she wasn’t sober.”
Rumer nodded in agreement as her sister spoke before describing their mother’s behaviour during this time as “jarring”.
Tallulah added that she would often get “upset” at Moore when she was intoxicated and would find herself speaking to her mother “like a child.”
“It was not the mum that we had grown up with,” the 25-year-old continued.
In her memoir, the Hollywood actor also recalled how she suffered from disordered eating and an obsession with exercise.
Moore revealed that the fixation began when she was training for the role of a naval lawyer in the movie A Few Good Men, shortly after giving birth to her third child.
“I didn’t feel like I could stop exercising,” Moore wrote in the book.
“It was my job to fit into that unforgiving military uniform I’d be wearing in two months in A Few Good Men. Getting in shape for that movie launched the obsession with working out that would consume me over the next five years. I never dared let up.”
Despite learning from her doctors at the time that she wasn’t producing enough fat in her breast milk to sustain her daughter, Moore found herself unable to stop working out.
The actor added that her strict exercise routine came to an end after she had an “epiphany in the shower one day”.
“I just need to be my natural size,” she wrote.
