Mumbai: Actress Demi Moore has bared her soul in her book and revealed that she was raped as a teenager by a man who knew her mother. In her memoir, Demi Moore wrote that the man claimed that her mother had sold her to him in exchange for $500.
Demi Moore shared that when she was only 15, she returned home one day to find an older man waiting for her in her home who had the key to her apartment.
“It was rape. And a devastating betrayal, revealed by the man’s cruel question: ‘How does it feel to be wh**ed by your mother for $500?'” Demi wrote.
When asked if Demi Moore believes that her mother accepted the money for such an agreement, the 56-year-old actress told that her mother “did give him the access” and put her “in harm’s way”: “I think, in my deep heart no. I don’t think it was a straightforward transaction. But she still did give him the access, and put me in harm’s way.”
Demi Moore wrote about being brought up by parents, who battled alcoholism and mental health in her memoir. Talking about which, Demi Moore said her mother’s first suicide attempt when she was 12. She described it as her “life-changing moment” and said: “childhood was done” on the show. The actress said that when she learnt that the man who she knew her to be her father wasn’t her biological father, she consoled herself with the thought: “I wasn’t wanted or I don’t deserve to be here.”
Demi Moore, who dropped out of high school, left her mother’s home and begun signing up for acting auditions as a teenager, said she abused cocaine and other drugs, much like her parents. “They don’t have an ‘off’ switch. I don’t have the thing that says ‘This is enough’,” she said.