I’d like to express some surprise at this story, but that would be a disingenuous tactic even though I, like many of you along with Kaiser and CB as well, would love to see Demi rise from the ashes of her divorce like a gloriously unaffected phoenix. However and instead of taking Kaiser’s suggestion to fire her publicist and position herself differently after shedding the douche that is her ex-husband Ashton Kutcher, Demi has eagerly taken up a “party girl” reputation. She’s been boning random young singer and model types. She’s gone in for some post-split tweaking. And she’s rambled on about how she believes that she’s not worthy of being loved.
Then, there’s the somewhat sympathetic portrait of Demi as a woman who is drowning her sorrows in alcohol. Last October, In Touch printed a story that Demi has a drinking problem and is a complete mess. Then in December, Demi’s alleged AA sponsor passed away, and her friends reportedly worried that she’d start boozing again. Well, those worries are apparently not unfounded, for TMZ is now reporting that Demi was taken to hospital late Monday evening for “substance abuse” issues:
Demi Moore was rushed to the hospital last night … and we’re told the issue is substance abuse.
Law enforcement tells us a 911 call was placed at 10:45 PM Monday night. Paramedics responded to Demi’s L.A. home and after assessing her for a half hour, she was transported to a local hospital.
Sources tell us she is being placed in a facility to “seek further professional assistance.” Our sources say the treatment is for substance abuse.
Demi’s rep tells TMZ, “Because of the stresses in her life right now, Demi has chosen to seek professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health. She looks forward to getting well and is grateful for the support of her family and friends.”
[From TMZ]
So if Demi has now been placed in a facility, does that mean she’s in rehab, or is her rep truly going to go with the “exhaustion” excuse? They really should ban that word in publicist circles because no one ever buys it. As for Demi, I hope she gets it together soon not only for her sake but for her daughters as well. She’s not the first woman to go through a terrible split with a cheating douchebag, and she won’t be the last.
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Divorce is hellish, even when you know it’s a necessity. I hope she’s getting the help she needs.
Agree, and that is the decent thing to wish a woman going through a divorce. She thought Ashton was it, and they were going to spend the rest of their lives together.
I don’t agree with how she was positioning herself, I truly thought at her age, she’d be more tigress than broken kitten. But we don’t know what truly is going on. Look at Heather Locklear, this Demi situation reminds me of her: I think living in, or around Hollywood, plays havoc with your self-esteem, especially when you’re an aging actress.
Good luck, and hope Bruce is a rock to his daughters.
Good comments – you hit all the right points.
Agree! I wouldn’t wish a divorce on my worst enemy. You forever lose the person you thought would be your soul mate. I can’t fault someone for losing it after a breakup of a marriage.
I disagree…i married my husband, knowing that he wasn’t my soul mate, but all the while, fervently hoping that i’d turn him into it…there is a difference…and sometimes divorce can be a blessing, it definitely was in my case.
@Coucou, you might be in the same position as Ashton and Demi, but in reverse. Hold your horses, I’m not calling you a douchebag;) More likely, your husband did not see the need to divorce, or as a blessing, and no matter his hand in breaking the marriage, he felt true sadness when it ended.
They take us for fools with the bullshit “exhaustion” excuse.
ITA. If it was really “exhaustion”, wouldn’t a person just stay home and rest?? You can sleep at home as well or better than you can in a hospital. Sleep alot, watch dvd’s, drink protein shakes and one week later, voila! You’re cured. But if its addiction, then you need to be in a treatment facility.
Totally. I feel for her daughters, but frankly, divorce is what happens when you have an open marriage.
Whatever the reason, she’s getting help and hopefully she will take this opportunity to get back on track for her sake and her daughters’.
Exhaustion isn’t farfetched. Everybody has been saying how thin she is since the divorce. Exhaustion isn’t needing a nap. Is about not taking care of yourself-not eating and sleeping, being stressed, etc. Maybe Demi is abusing drugs and/or alcohol but it obvious that she’s going through a lot of stress.
Yes, but “I’m suffering from exhaustion” wouldn’t cut it with your or my employer if we wanted the day off work.
We could try “I married a 15-years younger douchebag, splashed our relationship all over the Net, and now I’m so drained from starvation and cocaine that I can’t face life outside my duvet cover”, but we’re still more likely to get the sack than sympathy.
Oh, for the self-inflicted problems of multi-millionaires…
Demi – take your money, your healthy family, count your blessings and retire gracefully!!
Amen to that sister
I am loving this. I am not for the faux sympathy because we all talked shit about their marriage for years on this site and how we knew it was going to last.
I’m sure it’s a sad thing to go through divorce no matter what. But honestly, what did she expect?
At least her divorce isn’t sucking her dry financially, she has family and a supporting second ex-husband to lean on. I’m just saying.
I don’t feel sorry for but I do empathize.
This!
Second to that Amen, sister!
Try as I might, I just can’t feel sorry for her. (Although, I might if I liked her even a little bit.)
Very well said, Tapioca!
Hope the treatment goes well for her. Clearly there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed, and hopefully she come out of it a lot healthier.
On all of the morning shows they are making it sound like she had a epileptic seizure! I knew they were full of crap! I bet it is cocaine, that was her vice in the 80s and 90s.
If it is true that she had a seizure, my money is on it’s relation to her anorexia.
A body can only handle so much starvation before the electrolytes get out of balance and cause a seizure or heart attack.
Demi date d-bags if u like but dont marry one cus the end result is this. I wish you good health but dont swallow delusion pills too much its nt good for health.
Valley of the Dolls, baby!
maybe she abused diet pills
Wow. Demi of all people?
Remember all the claims that she was a willing participant in his cheating, encouraging him, and perhaps doing so herself? Open marriage to the max? None of this was a surprise to her, then; the split must relate either to the shame of Ashton going trolling for women very publicly and without her, or for him wanting to leave for his own reasons. Her stress then relates not to being ‘cheated on,’ but to anger/sorrow that even giving him (and herself) 100% freedom to do as he wishes wasn’t enough to keep him tied to her. And that would be because, duh, full-tilt sexual promiscuity is not what marriage is about.
Exactly what u said Shelley!
You KNEW this was going to happen, so prob. best to just get it over with. She’ll be “reborn” after rehab, write a book, talk about it on talk shows, make more money. Business as usual.
Yeah, whether she means to or not, she is definately positioning herself for a book deal and doing the talk show circuit starting with a very special exclusive interview with her good friend, Oprah, followed up by a lighter interview with her good friend, Ellen. Book and all interviews will be filled with all kinds of new agey one liners and dime store self help. Oh, and I bet she appears on Dr. OZ to talk about how she is eating better and drinking lots of coconut water after she gains back a little weight.
She started drinking when she saw Rumer’s potatoface. Poor Rumer looks like the kid from that Cher movie The Mask.
I’m sure you’re a beauty yourself.
What a filthy thing to say, grow up and don’t pick on the daughter. Clearly Demi is going through some serious post-break-up trauma and self-medicating with god knows what, which does nothing to help you through bad emotional situations. Rehab is the right thing as it’s obvious by her gaunt appearance that she’s not in control of her life.
No, Rumer isn’t the prettiest thing around but it does look like she’s standing by her mother in a difficult time. It must be a comfort to Demi and I’m sure Bruce is proud that his daughter is doing the right thing by her mother.
@Fetch80: Yours was a very lame and immature comment. I am not sure how long you have been reading Celebitchy but one thing that makes it so great is that it is not Perez Hilton. A lot of the comments are very well thought out, funny, and enlighting so that the comment boards are often this great dialogue. We don’t always agree with each other but very often we have a point of view that we can argue well. Comments like these cheapen the message boards. If you want to write stuff like this, please stick with Perez Hilton but don’t bring this crap here.
Ummm. Ur delusional. Comments are totally rude on here. Or is it only ok on a leann post ? Must be that.
That’s hilarious. Oh please, get off your high horse.
exactly
I know I’m the minority in this case, but I think Rumer looks pretty here. Shame about her name tho….
She may not be the first or last but it probably feels that way to her at the present. A loss of a marriage is a terrible thing, at least to one of the partners (the one who is still invested in it.) Add to that losing your very good friend and sponsor, and you have a truly devastating situation on your hands. People have killed themselves for less. It’s no shock that it’s really put her over the edge, emotionally, for the time being. I guess she really did love that douche, hard as it may be to understand.
She looks devastatingly thin. So maybe if not substance abuse, an eating disorder? Whatever the case may be, she really looks like she needs some serious TLC right now. So good for her for admitting she has a problem and doing something about it. I’m not a big Demi fan (the conceit factor bothers me) but I wish her well on this and know she’ll overcome this awful time because she’s just that kind of a person.
I mentioned a few months before the split that I thought Demi was using cocaine again. You could see it in her eyes; that’s why I wasn’t surprised by her weight loss. I think she’s been on a months-long binge & probably needs some help.
I agree. That kind of weight loss is usually due to abusing some sort of stimulant.
Agreed, got that C vibe when seeing that shot of her holding her index finger up to her pursed (and surprisingly non-plumped)lips…she was like saying “shhhh, i just did a line on the toilet at the Ritz…”
You’re absolutely right, oral fixation is totally common with C too! That’s how I can always tell when the Lohan has been using; she does that stupid wanna-be Marilyn, touching her mouth thing.
If you go back in photos, I think she’s been back using for at least 6 months.
Pfft.
Substance abuse issues. Yeah right.
That is obviously just a coverup excuse for exhaustion.
Ha! Made me laugh.
LOL you made some funny comment
*getting on soapbox*
Sorry, but it’s NOT CHEATING when you’re in an OPEN MARRIAGE and BOTH PARTIES ARE SCREWING OTHER PEOPLE VIA PREVIOUS MUTUAL AGREEMENT.
*off soapbox*
Sorry. I hate hate hate to defend that douchebag but what I hate even more is this current, massive, one-sided “He Cheated on Demi!” witchhunt by the media, when they BOTH were to blame. I hate targeted scapegoats.
Personally, I think it’s also more than likely that the actual reason behind the split was Demi’s long time substance abuse (alcohol and cocaine) issues, which rumor has it, she has been indulging in for several YEARS now.
Finally!SOMEONE WITH SOME SENSE.
I saw her new film, “Margin Call”, last night.
It’s a good film. Demi is actually a very good actress, which I tend to forget with all the drama surrounding her.
But her face scared the living daylights out of me. It’s so tweaked that it’s unbelievable.
She has a scene with Stanley Tucci, where they’re talking to each other and it’s very quiet and close up.
Most of her face is orangey, and completely immobile except for her eyes moving a little.
And then the part around her chin and mouth is much paler, almost a different colour and it’s the only part of her face that she seems able to move.
I don’t judge her for working so hard on her appearance. I don’t judge her for the surgery and botox. I just wish she’d relax a bit.
more rich people problems.
read the international news (let alone local) and then tell me if you really feel sorry for her.
maybe she should pick a cause and work for someone or something other than herself and her vanity.
second
I agree.
I wish her well, as divorce really can be hell. HOWEVER, this is my issue: why does she have to “position” herself at all? Here’s where you really see how flawed the thinking of celebrities is. What on earth is wrong with laying low? Going to stay somewhere where there are no nightclubs, no red carpets, and – most importantly – no paparazzi and press, for a long, long time? Doesn’t Bruce have a place in Idaho? She could even hole up someplace super-low key like Big Sur. Or Mexico. I mean, if you have that much money, you can so easily disappear. Take the waters at Baden Baden, for god’s sake.
Because she’s a famewhore – pure and simple. So many celebrities can simply “go away” and never have to work another day in their life but they won’t because most of them are FAMEWHORES. It’s that simple.
I know, you’re totally right. Some people just can’t go away quietly, they have to play out all their ugly drama in the limelight – because at least that way, they’re still getting attention.
I suppose we’re all complicit, though, through looking at the pictures and commenting on the spectacle. However, I’d honestly rather that stars were exclusively ornamental – they make movies, they dress up, and that’s about it.
I’m trying to sympathise. No, really. Stay with me here.
Yes, it’s annoying that the rich and/or famous have the freedom to collapse and “recover” from things that come under “real life” for most of us.
I’d love to be able to claim “exhaustion” for taking time off. I’m sure all the people out there with sick relatives, and (possibly multiple) jobs, and children, and bills, and school etc., would love to be able to do what she’s doing.
I just don’t see how we’d be better off if she sucked it up more. Wouldn’t it be better if we all had more of that freedom and prosperity, rather than if she dragged herself around when she was truly miserable?
It’s like after the Kobe Bryant divorce. People kept spluttering that he, a mere high school grad, earned millions while they, with their college degrees, were struggling. People who taught college courses were apoplectic.
All very understandable, but I fail to see how athletes earning less would make life more equitable for the rest of us. What’s the connection between the NBA, and the awful labour practises in universities and other areas? Why should higher education guarantee us anything, and why is it so awful that someone with a HS diploma is successful?
Making life harder for the rich and spoiled may be satisfying, but it won’t improve our lives.
But there is something that bothers me about this…
Would you not have to be as hard as nails to make it in showbiz? Whatever happened to that?
I truly don’t understand how Demi could make it as an actress the first time around, raise a family for years, survive one divorce, stage a comeback…but then crumple when her d-bag husband divorces her.
I get that some people aren’t very strong, but surely that would have manifested itself before this, right?
“Would you not have to be hard as nails to make it in show business?” When I read that, one name immediately sprang to mind which directly contradicts your assumption:
Judy Garland.
OK, one more:
Marilyn Monroe.
They have male counterparts, but I’m too lazy to list any more examples of people who were big stars but struggled the whole way through.
Actually, I think Marilyn Monroe was considerably tougher than people tend to think.
There is an excellent book, “The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe”, by Sarah Churchwell.
In it, she explains how little we really know about Monroe, and how many of the biographies and legends say more about the people telling them than about Monroe herself:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Many-Lives-Marilyn-Monroe/dp/1862077541
I take your point, but I think there has to be a bloody mindedness in anyone who achieves any success in Hollywood.
Ashton is actually her third divorce (first one was to Roger Moore) and she has had very public cocaine and alcohol issues since the 80’s along with several rehab trips.
Huh. Did not know this.
She was definitely never married to Roger Moore. Her first husband was a musician named Freddy Moore.
WHOOPS! You’re right. It’s FREDDY Moore. I’m barely on my first cuppa joe…
HA! Phew! I was wracking my brain thinking “She was married to James Bond?”
God speed, Demi. One day at a time.
Amen to that.
We knew what the publicist would say. However, I can say it’s absolutely devastating when you lose a sponsor you trust. They truly are the first intimate relationship you have with emotional sobriety. I could see how that, plus the demise of a marriage would make someone go out. I truly empathize with her and I hope she is able to get the help she needs.
I am really, really feeling for this woman. Demi has a known involvement with AA going back to when Bruce Willis was having his problems. It’s very serious business when someone throws away long term sobriety; it can truly turn into a life-threatening issue while at the same time they lose the assistance of a support group that can’t help them while they’re using. Combined with the intense weight loss she’s recently had, I would be very concerned for her physical and mental health.
It seems to always hold true in these relationships with a big age gap — when things fall apart it’s the older one that suffers, feeling they are left without options while the younger one can move on more quickly. I feel for her, I really do.
I heard a report on the radio this morning that she had taken her youngest daughter to visit the set of Glee, and Demi spent the whole time hitting on the young guys who star on the show, to the point where some of them were too embarrassed to even talk to her.
Wherever she is, whatever she’s getting treatment for, I hope she can work on her self-esteem. There is no reason she has to troll for younger guys and put herself in this ‘desperate’ position.
She ought to be ashamed of herself behaving like that at her age. And over a douche like Aston?
Now if it were Bruce we were talking about…. J/K
Demi: Get thee to a therapist and on the way stop for some food and eat it – you look awful and your psychological state right now is a mess.
I would be “exhausted” to if I partied for a week!! Such BS
I feel bad she is facing these inner demons. I hope this won’t be the effect on Heidi Klum.
Why do I get the feeling that she enjoys having people feel sorry for her?
Maybe this will be a wake up call to her.
Please do a story on that redneck class act Miley Cyrus in Vegas (drinking, penis cake, etc)!!!
This might be harsh, but I cannot stand women who act like a relationship falling apart is the end of the world. Yes, it’s sad and difficult, and complicated for Demi by the fact that it is all so public. Ashton cheated, Ashton ruined the marriage, and Ashton is off partying somewhere not giving a damn. Why is Demi destroying herself over it? She’s a grown woman with children and she needs to act like it. I hope she gets help and comes through this quickly, but I honestly get tired of how weak and self-defeating a lot of my fellow women are.
that is pretty harsh LOL. I’ll say it comes from being indulged in every aspect of life and having no perspective when encountering the fact that all the money, fame, etc can’t prevent reaility from hitting you in the head.
her issues are obviously alot deeper than just ashton. this was probably just a trigger.
I have to agree with you there. I think she has some serious issues when it comes to coping with reality.
Radar is now reporting that she had a seizure and that she’s being treated for anorexia…So maybe it is something closer to exhaustion-caused by drugs, booze, starvation, and emotional distress.
“Substance abuse”?
She is of no substance.
Thank you! The truth of that statement just made my morning!
Every time I see her name, I think “D-ME!!!”
I have zero sympathy for this loser. You are a mom of 3 get it together loser. Nothing wrong with dating/marrying older or younger but if you can’t handle it don’t do it. What a waste of human existence. LOSER.
So, I take it, (like me) you’re a fan?
Well, whatever is going on I hope she gets the help that she needs. I hope that she finds out that life goes on and that food is good for you. She’s way to skinney. She needs to eat.
I would not be surprised if it were something other than alcohol or at least in addition to. That might explain part of the non-eating problem.
Ok, I read comments after I comment; have to stop doing this. All I have to say is again, wait until you f–king walk in someone elses shoes b4 you judge them as harshly as some of you are. The lack of empathy or even possible understanding of what could be going on with her reflects the utmost shallowness and lack of humanity. I don’t believe that folks need to feel sorry for her but stop judging so harshly. Let her work her sh-t out. None of us know whats really going on but it’s not hard to guess some of it and that some of it, if true, is hard and painful. Wouldn’t wish it on my worse enemy.
Bravo. I find women so much more vicious and judgmental. This is sad. She also is being treated for anorexia, which is another fallout from the divorce. Extreme anxiety and depression and grieving can make you Ill at the sight of food. God bless, Demi, right now.
On the one hand, I do have sympathy for anyone who is having a tough time. But on the other hand, I feel that she needs to get out of the spotlight for awhile (maybe a long while) and get her sh1t together. She can afford to, and it would show a lot more self-respect.
LEMME guess you’re a 50 something mother of 3 TEENAGE daugters struggling with an addiction you should have dealth with 20 years ago?
mmmhmmmm no sympathy
Poor woman never should have left Idaho. I always wondered why she did.
I think it was pure ego. I think she couldn’t stand being out of the spotlight and had to get herself back in the Hollywood game. Too bad I had so much respect for her for retreating and spending time with her daughters in the country.
mln76 – I agree with you.
that picture with her in the white dress just screams cocaine. the clenched jaw, dilated pupils.
COCAINE IS ONE HELLUVA DRUG!
I thought the exact same thing re: pic with white dress. And YES, cocaine is one f-ing bitch, in terms of the powerful addiction that can occur with it.
Awww…she’s “exhausted!” Try getting a real job Demi! But in all seriousness, I hope she can fight her demons. It’s sad to see her falling to pieces like this.
In every picture her mouth is all F’d up…eyes wide open….SHE’S A COMPLETE MESS and i hope she gets the help she so obviously needs
She’s got Brooke Mueller face in that white dress!
I feel very bad for Demi and I hope she gets the help she desperately has needed for sometime. Her health and well-being come first. Which leads me to my heartless statement: This just killed any potential career comeback she had going on. She’s done. Finito. So I also hope that she comes to grips with this fact while she is away in rehab. All of the speculation surrounding the demise of her marriage now coupled with this and the fact she had to drop out that Linda Lovelace movie is going to tell producers that Demi cannot cope with having a career in Hollywood and with anything going on in her personal life. Between her age and her issues, she just signed her death warrant on her Hollywood career. For me, I feel bad she had to go down like this and I am not a fan of hers at all. I just hope she is able to get away from Hollywood and go back to living a normal life. She had a good run and a pretty decent career. But she can’t go on forever and this is obviously taking her toll on her. In Hollywood, she’s a “has been,” she should move back to Idaho or wherever she’s from and live her life outside of the spotlight. I think the spotlight is her main addiction and I think it’s killing her.
Nonsense. Hollywood loves a comeback story. If she can go to rehab and deal with her issues – as she has done before – it shouldn’t affect her career at all. Look at Ben Affleck, Gary Oldman, Michael Douglas, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Downey Jnr, Kirsten Dunst, Eva Mendes…
1)Have you noticed that the majority of that list is men? 2)Then let’s look at Kirsten Dunst and Eva Mendes neither of them have achieved the success they had before. I can’t think of a single female comeback that has ever been as successful as a man’s. I know there are probably a few I am not thinking of but it’s very rare to see a woman in Hollywood make a Robert Downey Jr style comeback. Women in this industry are a dime for a dozen. Hollywood is a sexist place and for every woman that goes down there is two more to take her place.
Besides Demi IS in the midst of her “comeback.” As far as being an actress, she has lost any good faith she has had in this comeback with this event. The media has painted her to be desperate for a chance back in the spotlight and that turns off the people who run Hollywood. As it stands, her comeback and most likely her career is over.
I don’t think Demi losing her career is a bad thing. She has more money than any of us will ever need in a lifetime, for starters. Plus, I think she has spent so long trying to chase down her younger days that she has no sense of self. She needs to get away and become a whole person. Even if her career as an actress isn’t over, I hope she gains enough sense to understand that being apart of the Hollywood crowd is not a healthy place for her.
“…She’s not the first woman to go through a terrible split with a cheating douchebag, and she won’t be the last.”
unfortunately it wont be her last time being cheated on at the rate she’s going.
People are relentless with this woman making fun of her about her age/love life and if I were a celeb and read tabloids all the hurtful remarks would bother me deeply. She is under so much criticism all the time I suppose it is not surprising she came undone. It’s a sad case and even sadder she married a loser who is a off partying acting like he doesn’t have a care in the world while his former wife is in crisis.
Why for the last few years every picture of Demi she is either unsmiling, too serious looking or angry and tense? Sounds like a bit of Karma too, Demi abandoning her mom, Ashton getting the hell out. Who knows how long she’s had a drink and drug problem. It may have been hell during their marriage, we don’t know. Husbands and wives are still not blood relatives. Ashton doesn’t owe her anything unless he wants to. They have no children together to bond them. Bruce has always been there for her anyway and her three daughters. I don’t understand the need for pity. Same stuff happens every day to regular people too. Just because she’s a woman and there’s suggestions of cheating we shouldn’t automatically take her side.
From what I understand the mother was a life long alcoholic, I don’t think she abandoned her. Now what the karma of that will be with her children and her abuse problems I don’t know. But studies show alcoholic parents are more likely to have alcoholic children.
On one site I read she had a seizure due to ‘recreational’ drug use, on another I read she’s being treated for anorexia, another said she’s been drinking too much, and this site says exhaustion. I believe it’s a little bit of all of these things.
Demi has always seemed determined to appear fearless and strong, even with all evidence to the contrary. She’s been in denial about her age and that she needs to start taking better care of herself, and her own body finally gave her the wake-up call she couldn’t ignore. She needs the help she’s getting, period, she could have died.
TMZ says nitrous oxide inhalation caused seizure.
Ashton cheating on her and having it so public made her go crazy because it’s a big blow to her ego. She’s someone who has always been very vain and obsessed with everyone seeing her as this hot woman. Being with Ashton boosted her ego, but now that it’s over in that way, she’s feeling really insecure. She leaks PR stories about her having young men all over her because she can’t handle getting older or be seen as old.
I thought the same thing!