Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, an extraordinary ex-wife

In fact, in these 25 years, they haven’t stopped showing that they get along better than they do now that they’re married. Without going any further, Moore moved into the house of Willis and his current wife this Thursday and took care of him “to the end” of the brain illness suffered by the “Die Hard” protagonist.

However, this is just one example of the great love and respect felt by the ex-partner in this movie. Here are other examples:

Romance, wedding and first daughters

The couple met in a 1987 screening of ‘Stakeout’ starring actor Emilio Estevez, who was Moore’s then fiancee. Moore and Estevez broke up dating a few weeks after Moore and Willis fell madly in love. Four months later, on November 21, 1987, the couple said “Yes” at the Golden Nugget Hotel in Las Vegas. Moore, in his 2019 memoirs ( ‘Inside out. My Story, edited by Roca Editorial and co-written with journalist Ariel Levy.) that the wedding is not planned. “We were on the plane when Bruce said, ‘I think we should get married. We were joking about it on the flight, but all of a sudden it didn’t seem like he was joking.”

A month later, the actors got married in a traditional ceremony in front of their families and friends. They welcomed a year after their wedding first daughter Rumer, It was named after British fiction writer Rumer Godden in August 1988. The little girl suddenly became the most important thing in their lives and they both strove for alternative projects so that at least one of them could be home with the little girl. “Bruce helped me get this baby out,” Moore said in an interview with ‘Vogue’. “He was there with his hands… Passionate, excited, and driven to be a father as well as everything else he did,” he explained.

together in a movie

‘Ghost’ hero and star of ‘Thirst for Revenge’ They first worked together when they starred together in the thriller ‘Mortal Thoughts’ on April 19, 1991.

“It was nice,” Moore told the ‘Baltimore Sun.

In July 1991, Moore and Bruce expanded the family once again with the birth of their second daughter, Scout.. “Pregnancy agrees with me,” Moore told ‘Vanity Fair’ when she posed nude at the end of her pregnancy and starred on the most controversial cover ever. The author, the famous Annie Leibovitz, had a wonderful friendship with the then-married couple. In addition to taking care of wedding photos, she had already photographed Demi when she was pregnant with her first daughter.

After numerous successes and immense popularity on the big screen, the actors became parents to their third and last daughter, Tallulah, in February 1994.

couple is divorcing

After more than ten years of marriage, the couple announced that they would part ways in 1998. However, after their separation was announced, they continued dating in the months that followed, even going on a family trip to Paris. Two years later, the actors officially divorced. In fact, the ‘Die Hardy’ star and ex-wife They resolved their divorce in one day, after spending two years sorting out his legacy. After their divorce, Willis opened up to ‘Rolling Stone’ about the changing nature of their relationship. “I still love Demi. We are very close. We have three daughters that we continue to raise together., and we’re probably closer now than ever before. We understand that we have a lifelong commitment to our daughters and our friendship remains, but the institution was dissolved.” One of the first signs of a good relationship was when Moore attended the show’s premiere on October 4, 2001. The ex-couple filming ‘Bandits’ in Los Angeles posed with their three daughters.

mutual compliments

The ‘Ghost’ star surprised her ex-husband on stage at the end of the ‘Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis’ show filmed at The Hollywood Palladium in July 2018. The actor began to talk about the many excellent skills of Willis as a person. , father and husband. “For those who don’t know me, I’m Demi Moore,” she began. “I was married to Bruce in the first three ‘Die Die’ movies, which makes sense because the last two suck.”

Joking about his parenting style, Moore continued, “Bruce is very generous. When our daughter Rumer was a baby and it was her turn to change her diapers in the middle of the night, she would bend over and whisper to me: “I’ll give you a thousand dollars right now if you change your diapers.” “

A few months later, in September 2019, Willis joined Moore at the launch of his memoir, “The Inside Out.” The actor posed for photos with Moore, his three daughters and his wife, Emma, ​​at the event held in Los Angeles. In her memoirs, Moore reveals that she and Willis “feel more connected” after the divorce. “Funny to say but I’m so proud we’re divorced”She adds, “I think Bruce was afraid at first that I would make it difficult for us to break up and that I would express my anger and how much baggage I had from our marriage by denying him access to girls. He said I would resort to all those tricks divorcing couples use as weapons. But I didn’t, and he didn’t.” The separation “was not easy at first”, the former couple overcame it with great success. “The heart of our relationship, the heart of what makes up our family, something new that provides girls with a loving and supportive environment with their parents.”

They spent the prison together

At the start of the covid epidemic in April 2020, Moore and Willis moved into the same house with their three daughters. “It was so fun to have my parents in the house where they raised us,” their daughter Scout said in an interview with ‘Glamour’. “We have lovely parents and it’s been so nice that we all live together,” she added. Ex-wife broadcast on networks as the off days go by leisure time in her pajamas, photo projects with her daughters and daily book clubs. The complicity between the ex-partner is such that even on June 21, 2020, Moore wrote to his ex on Instagram, “Happy Father’s Day Bruce! Your girls are so lucky to have you ❤️”. A series of photos of Willis climbing the table to pose for a family photo.

On the other hand, in the YouTube series ‘No filter with NaomI’ featured by supermodel Naomi Campbell, Moore admitted in February 2021: Staying at Bruce’s house during the pandemic was “a blessing”. “It turns out that Bruce came and spent time with us,” he explained, adding: “Willis’ wife, Emma, ​​and their two daughters joined soon after. It’s important for our family, whatever its shape, to keep it together and for the little ones to feel comfortable with me and get to know their sisters better too.”

Daughters appreciate the family unit

Moore and Willis’ three daughters often express their gratitude for the way their parents handled the divorce. Rumer Willis gave an interview in October 2021 and admitted that he was “very grateful” that his parents put their families first after the separation.

“I am incredibly grateful that my family has made such an effort for me. I never felt like I had to choose between them.The young woman told ‘People’. I have many friends whose parents divorced at a young age, and I’ve seen their parents confront them on vacation or have to make a choice. I didn’t have to do that, and I’m glad my family has made being a family a priority.”

family spread disease

Just days after Moore congratulated her ex-husband on his 67th birthday on Instagram on March 19, 2022, Willis’ family said the actress diagnosed with aphasia and quit acting. “We’re going through this process as a strong family unit and we wanted to appeal to his fans because we know how much he means to you and to him. As Bruce always says, ‘Live’ and together we make plans to do exactly that”, Moore A note signed by Emma and Willis’ five children. In the statement, they stated that he also had aphasia. had affected their cognitive abilities. The condition causes loss of the ability to understand and speak.

Almost a year later, last February, another letter from the actor’s family said that Willis was diagnosed with a more specific frontotemporal dementia. “While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis,” the statement said. “FTD is a brutal disease most of us have never heard of, and it can affect anyone.” “There is no cure for the disease today, a reality we hope will change in the coming years,” the note says. “As Bruce’s condition progresses, we hope that media attention can focus on shedding light on this disease, which requires much more awareness and research.”