I’m sorry Demi was raped - age 15. She could bitch all she needed to about the slimy asshole as far as I was concerned. Tell the world what she learn: Seriously, this film was literally ALWAYS on cable, and for some reason (I think it was partly its theme song, which I still stan today), I couldn’t ever NOT watch it, even though I had the most tenuous grasp of its plot points.

She was married to actor Ashton Kutcher before divorcing in 2013. She writes about having two threesomes with Kutcher that left her with feelings of shame. "Because we had brought in a third party into our relationship, Ashton said, that blurred the lines and, to some extent, justified what he's done," Moore writes about Kutcher cheating on her. Moore recalls a time when Kutcher told her that "I don't know if alcoholism is a real thing." [18] She also recalls a time she was drinking with Kutcher and she passed out in a hot tub in Mexico. "Ashton had encouraged me to go in this direction. When I went too far, though, he let me know how he felt by showing a picture he'd taken of me resting my head on the toilet the night before. It seemed like a good-natured joke at the time. But it was really just shaming," she writes. Two years into her marriage to Kutcher, Moore revealed that she became pregnant at 42 and then lost her child almost six months into the pregnancy. [16] After the couple divorced in 2013, Moore began abusing Vicodin and alcohol. During that time, her three daughters stopped speaking to her, and her former husband and friend, Bruce Willis, grew distant as well. Demi's story is one I recommend to all. Huge thank you to her for writing and sharing her heartfelt journey. Long may she continue to find happiness, peace, and acceptance of the things she cannot change, because she deserves it. I wish her the best. For the most part I think she did open up about her life and to me it didn't feel like she was doing so to assign blame or anything. In my opinion she didn't demonize her ex-husbands but instead showed some of the good and bad parts of their time spent together. Now I do think though she was fairly vague about some of the things that might have led to her daughters and Bruce not speaking to her for a few years. That's really the only instance in which I felt there was more to the story that she wasn't willing to share.

All this was too much for Ginny, who - when the family lived in Pennsylvania - tried to kill herself. Demi writes, "I remember using my fingers, the small fingers of a child, to dig the pills my mother had tried to swallow out of her mouth while my father held it open and told me what to do." This turned out to be the first of Ginny's many suicide attempts, and Demi remained constantly on the watch, feeling she had to 'help her parents clean up their messes.' Anyway, despite everything, Demi professes to have loved her mother and has tried to be the kind of mother she never had. She is by no means perfect and has made some poor decisions in her lifetime, but has also survived a lot. I haven't seen all of her movies, but particularly enjoyed A Few Good Men and Ghost. While some celebrities mentioned in the book felt compelled to set the record straight- on mostly minor things- and some may have felt compelled to defend themselves- but ultimately took the high road- I thought Demi did a good job in telling her life story. She was hard on some people, sometimes understandably, sometimes not, but she was also forgiving. She didn’t sugarcoat her foibles and owned her own s**t. By the age of 16 - when Demi was in an alternative high school and taking acting classes - she couldn't put up with her mother any longer. Demi moved out of the California apartment she shared with Ginny and moved in with a 28-year-old acting student named Tom Dunston. Soon afterwards, Demi left Dunston for 29-year-old musician Freddy Moore, a guitarist for the band 'The Kats.' Moore had originally planned her memoirs to coincide with her 50th birthday in 2012. [7] She centered the memoir around "a fundamental question, which is, 'How did I get here?' Coming from where I've come from, how did I get here?" she told People magazine. [8] She said that writing the memoir was a necessary part of a longer process of rediscovering herself. "I had to figure out why to do this, because my own success didn't drive me," Moore said. [9] The book was co-written by journalist Ariel Levy. [10] Publication and promotion [ edit ]

She discusses her relationships, most notably with Bruce Willis, the father of her three daughters, and then Ashton Kutcher. With so much toxicity in today’s world, it’s nice to see Demi and Bruce were, for the most part, able to maintain a strong family unit and co-parent well together after they split. I loved it. Without any doubt, I put it right next to Open, Agassi's memoir, because I appreciated the honesty, the vulnerability, the daring of telling everything no matter what it would happen afterwards. Curiosity got the better of me and so I borrowed it from the library. However, the audio version was available on Scribd and I ended up listening to the book instead. I read this book and I think I will re-read parts. What is most gripping are the chapters on childhood and young adulthood: being a misfit; growing up with alcohol and pill-addicted parents; always on shaky ground; never popular; getting sober; switching addictions to food and other people.

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For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight—or the headlines. Griswold, Maggie (September 25, 2019). "Demi Moore Wore the Perfect Fall Matching Set to Her NYC Book Signing". StyleCaster . Retrieved October 25, 2019.