Demi Moore’s Daughter Tallulah Opens About About 3-Year Falling Out With Mom

Tallulah Willis shared a message to those with complicated feelings on Mother’s Day, after her own family issues with mom Demi Moore.

While the two are on excellent terms now, that wasn’t always the case, something Moore first revealed in her memoir “Inside Out.” In the book, Moore opened up about her lifelong battle with drug and alcohol abuse and revealed she was totally cut off from her family and loved ones after an overdose in 2012.

Giving followers a look at how the fallout affected her, Tallulah opened up about their mother-daughter relationship on Sunday, along with a photo of the two of them together.

“Channeling love and strength to every mother to be, tired mamas, step moms, and mamas who’ve lost something precious,” she began. “I’m sending it to anyone who struggles to celebrate a day when it reminds them of a loss.”

“I didn’t talk to my mom for almost 3 years and during that shattered time this day would transport me from fragmented pieces to absolute dust,” she wrote. “I remember tearing up driving to work upon hearing a radio ad that cheerily recommend which ‘perfume Mom would absolutely adore.’ I digested the entire celebratory nature of the day as an insensitive slight to MY pain and MY story.”

“However, my story changed. Through a metamorphosis of inward self reflection and a malleability to forgive, 3 years did not stretch to forever,” Willis continued. “The gratitude of that truth has never lost its potency. I am magnetically transfixed by my mother, if you know me personally you know the magnitude of her presence in my life. I often wonder what kind of connection could be formed were I to meet the 26 year old Demi. I think we’d have a lot of laughter. The kind where you are silent and doubled over and gasping for a sliver of air.”

“The here and now is a day that started with a running hug to my maternal deity and a sloppy cheek kiss,” she concluded. “I revel in all that you are @demimoore and all that you continue to teach me. I witness what this day means for you, and where you came from. Every nook and cranny of you is worthy and gilded. I love you.”

Demi previously revealed her downward spiral was due to the miscarriage she had with Ashton Kutcher’s child, paired with her belief she could start drinking again after 20 years of sobriety. After she and Ashton split, Demi partied more, leading to one night in January 2012 she had an adverse reaction to whip-its and was hospitalized.

While Rumer played mediator, Moore’s other two daughters wouldn’t speak with her unless she got help. In her book, she wrote, “they still didn’t show up for me” while she was in treatment or when she got out. According to Moore, “it would be three years before we were able to find our way back to one another.”

The entire Moore-Willis family are currently in lockdown together, with Demi, Rumer, Tallulah, and Scout in quarantine with Bruce Willis, his wife Emma Heming and their daughters Mabel and Evelyn.