Scout Willis has now weighed in after her sister Tallulah Willis shed rare light on their relationship with ex-stepfather Ashton Kutcher, whom was married to their mother Demi Moore nearly a decade ago.
In public Instagram comments she later conceded were better made in ‘private’, Tallulah said she had ‘experience’ with life after an ex-stepparent and stressed no one needed to be vilified in order to find closure.
After Talluah’s comments made headlines, her sister Scout, 33, addressed the matter while attending the premiere of The Carters, where she said she was unaware of her sibling’s remarks but agreed that no one needed to be the ‘bad guy.’
‘No, and I don’t think so, that’s not the way I hold it, my mom holds it,’ Scout told Entertainment Tonight. ‘My family, I think since my parents divorced when I was young, and it’s always been handled with absolute grace and love and I think that really is the way forward for everything, it’s just like putting the children first and just handling everything with a lot of mutual respect.’
Scout also opened up about her father Bruce Willis after the interviewer noted she had recently seen him with a smile on his face.
‘It means everything,’ Scout said when asked what it meant seeing her father, who was diagnosed with aphasia followed by frontotemporal dementia, happy.
Scout Willis has now weighed in after her sister Tallulah shed rare light on their relationship with ex-stepfather Ashton Kutcher , whom was married to their mother Demi Moore nearly a decade ago
‘I think we all get so much from the connections we have with our parents as we get older and seeing them as people enjoying their lives,’ she added.
The interview came a day after Tallulah, 31, dropped a cryptic comment about her former stepfather in Gwyneth Paltrow‘s recent post about step-parenting.
‘I have a lot to say on this! Especially how to move through an ex-step parent,’ she posted, adding two red heart emojis.
A fan asked if she was talking about Kutcher, who was married to Moore from 2005 to 2013, prompting Tallulah to realize a private message would have been preferable.
‘This maybe should have been a private message lol but yes I have personal experience with this,’ she replied.
Tallulah noted the topic was ‘an important conversation’ to be had.
She also seemed to hold no grudges against Kutcher.
‘No one needs to be a bad guy for a situation to be healed. There’s room for everyone,’ she added.
Moore’s daughter Tallulah left a cryptic comment shedding light into her relationship with her ex-stepfather Ashton Kutcher on Tuesday; Tallulah pictured last month
It’s not often Tallulah speaks about the former relationship but she did previously recall the beginning of their romance on a 2023 episode of Stars On Mars.
‘It was like 2003, my mom had just started dating Ashton,’ she said.
‘It was that moment, a lot going on and I really went inside of myself, and that did send me into like a total dumpster fire. It was really hard and I’m still unpacking,’ Tallulah said.
‘However, I found the other side of that, which is like I really love myself now and I love my family,’ she added.
Demi and Ashton met in 2003, got married in September 2005 and their divorce was finalized in November 2013.
Ashton has been married since July 2015 to his That 70’s Show co-star Mila Kunis, 41, and they have two children together.
Kutcher was married to Tallulah’s mother Demi Moore from 2005 to 2013; pictured 2010
Demi and Ashton met in 2003, got married in September 2005 and their divorce was finalized in November 2013; pictured 2010
Demi has not re-married since their divorce, however she was wed twice previously.
She was married to the late musician Freddy Moore from 1981 to 1985 followed by actor Bruce Willis from 1987 to 2000. She shares daughters Rumer, 36, Tallulah, and Scout, 33, with The Sixth Sense star.
Demi opened up about her marriage to Ashton in her 2019 memoir Inside Out, revealing she had given up her sobriety to show him ‘how fun’ she was and alleges he was unfaithful on several occasions.
Elsewhere in the memoir, Demi claimed Ashton cheated on her with a 21-year-old they had met at a bowling alley – and used a threesome they had had to ‘justify’ his behaviour and the ‘blurred lines’ in their marriage. Ashton has never publicly commented on the claims.
Moore pictured with Ashton, her ex-husband Bruce Willis and their three daughters; pictured 2003
Demi went on to describe how she ‘went into contortions to try to fit the mould of the woman he wanted his wife to be’, adding that she ‘put him first’.
In a 2023 interview with Esquire, Kutcher admitted he was ‘f**king pissed’ at his ex-spouse for reigniting a media frenzy over his personal life.
‘I’d finally gotten to a place where the press had really laid off me and [wife Mila Kunis], and my life and my family. And then the next day, [the paparazzi] are at my kids’ school,’ the father-of-two reflected of the renewed interest of his first marriage following Moore’s book release.
The That ’70s Show alum then stopped himself mid-sentence, before concluding that he doesn’t ‘want to open anything up in that realm.’
It’s not often Tallulah speaks about the former relationship but she did previously recall the beginning of their romance on a 2023 episode of Stars On Mars; Tallulah pictured with her mother and Ashton; pictured 2007
During his interview, the People’s Choice Award winner recalled exactly how his ‘life changed’ the ‘moment’ news broke over his relationship with Moore, who is 15 years his senior.
After they walked down the aisle in 2005, Kutcher then aged 26 became a stepfather to her three younger daughters Rumer, who was 12, Scout, then 10, and Tallulah, then eight.
‘I was twenty-six, bearing the responsibility of an eight-year-old, a ten-year-old, and a twelve-year-old,’ he said of becoming a stepfather in his mid-twenties. ‘That’s how some teen parents must experience their twenties.’
Demi opened up about her marriage to Ashton in her 2019 memoir Inside Out, revealing she had given up her sobriety to show him ‘how fun’ she was and alleges he was unfaithful on several occasions; pictured 2010
Kutcher also reflected on Moore’s devastating miscarriage.
‘Losing a kid that you think you’re going to have, and that close to thinking you’re going to have a kid, is really, really painful,’ he said.
The star continued: ‘Everyone deals with that in different ways. He doesn’t say how he coped at the time.’
‘I love kids,’ Kutcher pointed out. ‘I wouldn’t have gotten married to a woman that had three kids if I didn’t love kids. The idea of having another kid would have been incredible.’ But Kutcher wouldn’t change what happened. He accepts that moment. ‘For whatever reason, I had to have that experience.’
After grieving the loss of their baby-to-be, Kutcher struggled with feeling like a ‘failure’ after their marriage ended.
‘Nothing makes you feel like a failure like divorce,’ he said. ‘Divorce feels like a wholesale f**king failure. You failed at marriage.’
In 2020, during an appearance on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Kutcher opened up about his connection with Moore’s daughters, admitting he will ‘never stop loving’ them.
Moore shares daughters Rumer, 36, Tallulah, and Scout, 33, with The Sixth Sense star; the three pictured March
And although Ashton admitted he doesn’t ‘hang out’ with Demi any more, he insisted he makes a ‘conscious effort to stay in touch’ with her three daughters, because he will never forget the bond they shared when he was their step-father.
‘I was helping raise teenage girls through their adolescence. I love them. I’m never going to stop loving them and respecting them and honouring them and rooting for them to be successful in whatever they are pursuing.’
But the Ranch star said he doesn’t force the trio to stay in contact with him, because he knows he is not their father.
He added: ‘I think you try … but at the same time I am not their father.
‘I was never trying to be their father. I always had respect and honoured Bruce [Willis], and I think he’s a brilliant human being and a wonderful man.
‘If they don’t want an engagement with me, I’m not going to force it upon them. But they all do and it’s great.’
