Demi Moore and Bruce Willis were once Hollywood’s golden couple. But after 11 years of marriage, they called it quits. Yet even after their divorce, the two continued to be friends for the sake of their three children. It was reported that both of them attended each other’s next marriages too. But Moore once said that she initially didn’t like Willis.
But today, the actress has joined hands with her ex-husband’s current family to help them through Willis’ Dementia diagnosis. There are also reports that the actress has moved in with Willis’ family. However, once upon a time when they first met each other, Moore thought that the star was a jerk.
Demi Moore Thought Bruce Willis Was A Jerk During Their First Meeting
Bruce Willis and Demi Moore met in July 1987 at the premiere of her fiancé Emilio Estevez’s film Stakeout in LA. The Die Hard star one of the guests. But he didn’t leave a good first impression on his future wife. Moore in her memoir, Inside Out said, “My impression was, he’s kind of a jerk… but Bruce was so gallant — in his own boisterous way, a real gentleman.”
The Indecent Proposal star mentioned that she attended an afterparty with Willis the night of the premiere and the Pulp Fiction actor requested her to write down her phone number right on his arm. That’s not all. When she was driving home, Willis and his entourage pulled up in a limo beside her car on the highway. She said:
“It was a stretch limousine in the next lane, with Bruce Willis and his buddies poking up through the open sunroof, waving and shouting, ‘Hey, Demi! It was like the universe was telling me: pay attention to this one.”
She did indeed pay attention to Willis because in 1987 she began a relationship with him. After just 4 months of being together, the two decided to get married in the presence of a few guests. But problems soon began to surface in their relationship.
Bruce Willis And His Scandalous Opinion On Men, Monogamy, And Marriage
In a 1996 Playboy interview, Bruce Willis said that marriage or children can’t deter a man’s natural procreation instincts. He boldly said, “What is marriage? No woman is going to satisfy a man’s natural impulse to procreate, procreate, procreate. The impulse doesn’t go away because you have three or 10 or a hundred kids.” But that’s not all.
Willis elaborated and said, “We try hard, but we’re animals. We’re just donkeys walking up to the trough for food and wanting to f— everything we see because of this unconscious agenda.” This interview was given when cheating rumors surfaced in his and Demi Moore’s marriage.
The Ghost actress said her ex-husband “craved excitement and novelty. Basically he wanted to do whatever the f— he wanted. He was 36, throw in celebrity and money. You do the math.” Apart from the cheating allegations, Moore also revealed that Willis wanted her to stay at home with the children.
She wrote, “I experienced the most conventional family dynamic I’d ever known in those years.” Their marriage finally ended in 1987. But to this day, the two remain close friends and Moore is allegedly determined to help her ex’s current family out during this troublesome time.
Source: Inside Out
