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Demi Moore Reveals Why She Cheated the Night Before Her First Wedding

Demi Moore Reveals Why She Cheated the Night Before Her First Wedding
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Demi Moore rips back the curtain in her memoir Inside Out, revisiting a whirlwind teenage marriage to musician Freddy Moore and confessing to a night-before-the-wedding call with another man—one of many raw revelations about love, turmoil, and survival.

Here is the short version up top: Demi Moore has been unusually candid about her personal life, both in her memoir and in recent interviews. The big beats are messy, human, and very Hollywood: a teenage marriage she was already trying to blow up, a picture-perfect family phase that eventually cracked, and a third, high-profile marriage that doubled as a second adolescence and ended in a public implosion. Now she says she is single, working, and going to bed with what sounds like a chaotic skin-care routine. Let’s walk it through.

The 18-year-old bride who already wanted out

Moore married musician Freddy Moore in 1980 when she was 18. She has said she was grieving her father and felt locked into a choice she wasn’t ready for, so she acted out. Her own words about the night before the wedding are as blunt as it gets:

"The night before we got married, instead of working on my vows, I was calling a guy I’d met on a movie set. I snuck out of my own bachelorette party and went to his apartment."

That was self-sabotage, by her account. She and Freddy split in 1983; the divorce paperwork didn’t finish until 1985. Celebrity timeline math can get messy, but that’s the clean version.

Bruce Willis era: the family chapter

Moore married Bruce Willis in 1987. They had three daughters together and, after more than a decade, separated in 1998 and finalized their divorce in 2000. However you slice the dates, that was the most stable stretch of her public life before things went sideways again.

Ashton Kutcher: the reset button that broke

Moore married Ashton Kutcher in 2005, and she has described that relationship as a way to relive a youth she felt she skipped while working.

"Like I could just go back in time and experience what it was like to be young, with him — much more so than I’d ever been able to experience it when I was actually in my twenties."

Behind the scenes, it got painful. She revealed she lost a pregnancy she would have named Chaplin Ray, then went through fertility struggles and slipped into Vicodin use and drinking. Meanwhile, Kutcher was 26 and suddenly stepdad to three kids while his career was accelerating; he later told Esquire the situation was "a lot."

They separated in 2011 after the pregnancy loss and amid reports of his infidelity. Kutcher summed up the fallout this way:

"Nothing makes you feel like a failure like divorce."

Their divorce became official in 2013. By then, Kutcher had started dating his That 70s Show co-star Mila Kunis (early 2012). They got engaged in 2014, welcomed their daughter later that year, married in 2015, and had a son in 2016.

So, is Demi Moore dating anyone now?

Short answer: doesn’t look like it. On The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in September 2024, Moore laughed about the single life by blaming her elaborate bedtime routine.

"If anybody saw my nighttime routine, if it was filmed, they would really see how eccentric I really am. Hence why I’m single!"

Her last public relationship was with chef Daniel Humm, which ended in 2022. Rumors briefly tried to tie her to Andrew Garfield, but nothing came of it. A friend once described the Humm vibe like this: he is charming, cultured, and into the finer things, and they shared a mischievous sense of humor and adventure. Since then, Moore seems focused on her kids, her work, and her dogs. Honestly, not a bad plan.

The relationship timeline at a glance

  • Freddy Moore — married 1980; separated 1983; divorce finalized 1985
  • Timothy Hutton — 1983
  • Jon Cryer — 1985
  • Rob Lowe — 1985
  • Emilio Estevez — 1985–1986
  • Bruce Willis — married 1987; separated 1998; divorce finalized 2000; three daughters together
  • Oliver Whitcomb — 1998–2001
  • Ashton Kutcher — together 2003–2013; married 2005; separated 2011; divorce finalized 2013
  • Sean Friday — 2013
  • Daniel Humm — 2022

Where does she go from here? After decades of headline-ready relationships, maybe the next chapter is quieter. Or maybe there is one more plot twist left. Either way, if she keeps talking this honestly about it, I’m listening.