Demi Moore reveals she waited to release her memoir until daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah were old enough to hear her stories
- Moore, 56, said she waited so long to release her memoir to protect daughters
- The actress spoke on the Present Company with Krista Smith podcast
- Star’s kids Rumer, Scout and Tallulah appeared with her on Facebook Watch series on Monday
- Tallulah ‘could sense that her eyes were shutting a little bit more’ in tough times
- Rumer said tension rose in the family as Demi dealt with her demons
- Trio are Demi’s daughters with ex-husband Bruce Willis
Demi Moore has revealed she waited so long to release her tell-all memoir Inside out in order to protect her daughters.
Speaking on the Present Company with Krista Smith podcast, the 56-year-old told host Krista Smith she felt her daughters had previously been too young to be exposed to the book’s content.
‘There’s things in there…it’s not that I wanted to keep it from them or hide anything, it’s just stuff that you don’t necessarily, well, when they’re younger, want to bring forward,’ said the actress.
Her whole world: Demi Moore has revealed she waited so long to release her tell-all memoir Inside out in order to protect her daughters
Demi Moore’s daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah had opened up about the star’s past addiction battles in a family appearance on Red Table Talk Monday.
The Ghost star appeared with the trio on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch series, as a preview of the conversation turned to how the family coped with Demi’s past addiction battle, which was fueled by alcohol and painkillers.
‘It was like a monster came,’ Tallulah, 25, 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.’
The latest: Demi Moore’s daughters Rumer, 31, Scout, 28, and Tallulah, 25, opened up about the star’s past addiction battles in a family appearance on Red Table Talk Monday
Moore, in her memoir Inside Out, said she drank heavily and used cocaine in her 20s, before a mid-1980s rehab stint led to stay sober for nearly 20 years.
She said that she had a relapse amid a miscarriage during her 2005-2011 marriage to Ashton Kutcher, and had a seizure at a party in 2012 as result of consuming nitrous oxide and synthetic cannabis.
Rumer described the gamut of emotions she experienced when her mother was under the influence, on the series with Smith, 48, her daughter Willow, 18, and mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones, 66.
‘It was very weird, and there were moments where it would get angry,’ Rumer said. ‘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.’
Candid: The 56-year-old Ghost star appeared with the trio on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook Watch series
Earlier this month on The Talk, Rumer lauded her mother for the strength and candor she expressed in Inside Out, the Ghost star’s candid memoir on the ups and downs of her life and career.
‘I’m so proud of her vulnerability,’ the Paducah, Kentucky-born actress said, adding that her mom has been a ‘beacon of strength’ for women over her decades in Hollywood.
‘I think so many women have watched her, and just as her daughters watch her, as … this kind of leader … and I think, what I really respect about her is that she is never the victim in her stories,’ Rumer said.
Strength: Moore, in her memoir Inside Out, said she drank heavily and used cocaine in her 20s, before a mid-1980s rehab stint led to stay sober for nearly 20 years
Difficult: Rumer described the gamut of emotions she experienced when her mother was under the influence
Frustrated: Rumer said, ‘I recall being very upset and kind of treating her like a child and speaking to her like a child’
Realization: Rumer said, ‘It was not the mom that we had grown up with’
Moore, in her book, touches on personal topics including past infidelities, being cheated on, and threesomes she had with Kutcher.
Rumer, who played English actress Joanna Pettet in this summer’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, said her mom ‘takes accountability’ for her actions, for better or for worse.
‘She takes responsibility, and mind you, this is her perspective, her story, and she’s the first one to say that,’ said the Dancing with the Stars alum.
Difficult: Tallulah said Demi ‘would be a lot more affectionate with me if she wasn’t sober’
Staple: Jada Pinkett Smith has hosted a number of revealing interviews on the Facebook Watch series
Showbiz royalty: The high-profile families converged for the telling interview on Facebook Watch
Rumer said Moore’s ‘allowing herself to show everyone that you can go through some really difficult, hard things, and you can still be someone who is thriving, and taking accountability, and just being a strong survivor.’
Rumer is older sister to Scout, 28, and Tallulah Belle, 25, from Demi’s marriage to actors Bruce Willis from 1987 to 2000. Demi was also married to musician Freddy Moore from 1980 to 1985, and to Kutcher from 2005 to 2013.
Moore’s new book Inside Out is available in stores now; Red Table Talk airs on Facebook Watch Mondays.
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