“I think it’s a process of, you know, not sounding cliche, but it’s really a process of learning to love yourself,” Moore shared. “Accept who you are as you are. For me, it had changed me many times to adapt to what I thought someone else wanted. It is that idea that we are somewhat conditioned to work to be desired, but we are not supposed to have our own desires. ”
Demi Moore says she had to learn to love herself to heal divorces and maintain sobriety. (Photo: Getty Images)
“Why didn’t I go see the man I was committing to spend the rest of my life with to express my doubts? Because I couldn’t face the fact that I was going to get married to distract myself from mourning my father’s death, “she wrote.” Because I felt there was no room to question what I had already set in motion. I couldn’t get out of marriage, but I could sabotage it. “
Moore and Willis, who share three daughters, were married for 13 years before separating in 2000. She wrote about being “very proud” of how they handled their separation.
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher in 2008. (Photo: Reuters)
“Working through a relationship, it is really recommended in our disposable times,” he added to Cagle. “You know, to go through the journey of really honoring the love that brought you together in the first place and really giving him everything you have. But you can’t really do that without love and acceptance of yourself. “
“I will always be very grateful to him. In a way he was doing it himself, he wasn’t sober yet. It was like he was doing for me what he still couldn’t do for himself, ”he said of Schumacher, who died in June of cancer. “Work was the only thing that meant anything to me. It didn’t have any value, it wasn’t enough to keep me sober, but making the film did. ”
