Demi Moore’s Daughters Reveal What It Was Like When Their Mom Dated Ashton Kutcher

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Demi Moore is talking about her struggles with ex-husband Ashton Kutcher and the effects their relationship had on her three daughters.

โ€œThe addiction and the co-dependencyโ€ฆ like my addiction to Ashton โ€” that was probably almost more devastating because it took me seriously away emotionally,โ€ Moore, 56, said on Mondayโ€™s Red Table Talk on Facebook Watch.

Moore sat down with hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris, the actress and two of her three daughters: Rumer and Tallulah Willis, spoke about her spiral into addiction after almost 20 years of sobriety.

Tallulah, 25, spoke about the repercussions her motherโ€™s addiction had on her after her older sisters, Rumer, 31, and Scout, 28, moved out.

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โ€œWatching the behavior with Ashton, those years, because everyone had left the house and it was just me living there. I felt very forgotten and I feel like I developed and nurtured a narrative where she didnโ€™t love me and I truly believed it,โ€ Tallulah said. โ€œI know that she does, 100 percent but in that moment youโ€™re hurt.โ€

โ€œIt was like the sun went down and a monster would come. I remember there was just the anxiety that would come up in my body when I could sense her eyes shutting a little more or the way she was speaking or she would be a lot more affectionate with me if she wasnโ€™t sober,โ€ she adds. โ€œIt was jarring and very weird. There were moments where I would get angry and I recall being very upset and kind of treating her like a child and speaking to her like a child and being like, โ€˜Please get away from me.โ€™ And she got very angry. It would happen in front of friends. It was not the mom that we had grown up with.โ€

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For Rumer, though, she says she felt โ€œso angryโ€ for โ€œso much of that timeโ€ because โ€œI felt like something that was mine had been taken away.โ€

โ€œI think also when she wanted to have another baby and then it wasnโ€™t happening, and there was so much focus on that, it was like, โ€˜Oh, weโ€™re not enough,'โ€ Rumer explains. โ€œPart of the reason I moved out of the house, I think after you had a miscarriage, I was just like, โ€˜Why are you so desperate to have another kid?โ€™ And I couldnโ€™tโ€™ stand the idea.โ€

โ€œBut then I found these pictures and I was like, โ€˜Oh my god.โ€™ I saw how big her stomach was and I was like, โ€˜Oh my god. I was so insensitive,'โ€ Rumer continues. โ€œI never once went to you and said, โ€˜Iโ€™m sorry. Are you OK?'โ€

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Rumer went on to say, โ€œYou had always chosen us. You always chose us first and made that a priorityโ€ฆ Being around a woman as your mother who is this, like, infallible woman who can take on anything, even my dadโ€ฆ Always together, always in control. [And then] not being in control around a man. Like, who is this person? Iโ€™m like, โ€˜I donโ€™t know who this is and they are supposed to be my rock.'โ€