Demi Claims Ashton Pushed Her To Relapse On Booze, ‘Shamed’ Her Amid Addiction Spiral
When Demi Moore met Ashton Kutcher, she claimed she had two decades of sobriety under her belt.
But she relapsed on booze after her then-boyfriend slammed her teetotal lifestyle and claimed alcoholism isn’t “real,” the actress claimed in her new memoir Inside Out, exclusively obtained by RadarOnline.com.
Soon after they began dating, Moore, now 56, and Kutcher, 41, took a romantic Valentine’s Day trip to Mexico together.
At dinner one night, Moore said Kutcher was drinking a glass of red wine and said: “I don’t know if alcoholism is a real thing — I think it’s all about moderation.”
Moore said she desperately wanted to be the type of woman who can drink moderately, and felt Kutcher wanted her to be that woman as well.
“I didn’t think, ‘This is a kid in his twenties who has no idea what he’s talking about,’” she wrote. “Instead, I cast about for justifications for his argument.”
That night, she tossed aside 20 years of sobriety and drank a beer from the minibar.
After she suffered a secret miscarriage at six months pregnant, Moore blamed her relapse and cigarette smoking habit for the loss.
She said alcohol helped her cope with the horrific tragedy.
“Drinking became interwoven in my pain,” she claimed.
Soon, her alcohol use spiraled out of control like it once did in her early 20s.
While celebrating her 45th birthday at Joe Francis’ home in Puerto Vallarta, Moore said she got so drunk, she nearly passed out in the hot tub and drowned.
Kutcher, she said, was furious she had overdone it, which left her feeling conflicted.
“It was also confusing: Ashton had encouraged me to go in this direction,” she wrote, adding that he took a photo of her resting her head on the toilet while intoxicated.
“It seemed like a good-natured joke at the time, but it was really just shaming.”
After dental surgery, Moore said she started abusing Vicodin. She forced herself to detox from pills one week while the children were with their dad, her ex Bruce Willis, and called it “one of the hardest things” she has ever done.
“I felt like I’d lived through a war. He did not offer me any reinforcement or compassion,” she said. “I felt like he was angry with me for having this problem in the first place.”
The pair eventually split after an explosive cheating scandal.
As RadarOnline.com exclusively reported, Moore also claimed in her book that Kutcher cheated on her with two young woman toward the end of their marriage. She said he claimed their threesomes together made him think it was okay to hook up with other women.
After suffering a seizure from nitrous oxide huffing in early 2012, Moore is now once again sober, she recently told the New York Times.
Inside Out hits bookstores on September 24.