Demi Moore and Bruce Willis had been certainly one of Hollywood’s golden {couples} — they usually’ve remained the gold commonplace for pleasant exes since their divorce in 2000.
The Ghost actress and Die Laborious star wed in 1987 after a whirlwind four-month romance, and went on to welcome three daughters collectively: Rumer Willis, Scout Willis and Tallulah Willis.
Whereas their authorized union resulted in 2000, the pair instantly proved that their household bond was nonetheless intact, touring collectively to Paris, attending movie premieres and extra. In 2020, the previous couple even remoted collectively in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
When Moore married Ashton Kutcher in 2005, Willis confirmed his assist by attending their wedding ceremony. Moore and her then-husband (the pair break up in 2011) had been later company at Willis’ 2009 wedding ceremony to Emma Heming Willis.
In March 2022, Willis’ household revealed that the actor was identified with aphasia and can be stepping away from performing. “We’re transferring via this as a powerful household unit, and needed to convey his followers in as a result of we all know how a lot he means to you, as you do to him. As Bruce at all times says, ‘Stay it up’ and collectively we plan to just do that,” learn a word, which was signed by Moore, Emma, and all 5 of Willis’ youngsters.
Lower than a 12 months later, the actor was identified with frontotemporal dementia and a supply advised PEOPLE in February 2023 that his household, together with ex-wife Moore, “is all nearer than ever.”
This is a glance again at Demi Moore and Bruce Willis’ relationship, from 1987 to now.
July 1987: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis meet at a screening of Stakeout
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The long run pair first linked at a 1987 screening of Stakeout, starring Moore’s then-fiancé, actor Emilio Estevez. Moore and Estevez had known as off their romance quickly after, and inside weeks of assembly, Moore and Willis had been an merchandise. Moore mentioned on the time that she discovered him “simply so able to embrace and provides me love.”
November 21, 1987: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis get married
4 months after their preliminary assembly, the couple mentioned “I do” in Las Vegas on the Golden Nugget lodge. Moore revealed in her 2019 memoir Inside Out that the nuptials had been unplanned. “We had been transferring to the playing tables when Bruce mentioned, ‘I believe we should always get married.’ We would been joking about it on the flight there, however out of the blue it did not appear to be he was kidding.” The pair tied the knot as soon as once more the next month in entrance of household and associates throughout a ceremony officiated by Little Richard.
August 16, 1988: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis welcome their first child collectively
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The couple formally turned mother and father lower than a 12 months after their wedding ceremony, welcoming daughter Rumer in August 1988. Named for British fiction author Rumer Godden, their daughter instantly turned their focus, with each actors striving to alternate initiatives in order that no less than certainly one of them could possibly be house together with her.
“Bruce helped pull this child out of me,” Moore mentioned on the time. “He was there along with his fingers. … He is as passionate and as excited and as pushed with being a father as he’s with the rest that he does.”
Willis shared his enthusiasm about fatherhood brazenly, saying, “I am an enormous fan of children. I inform all people they need to have them.”
April 19, 1991: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis share the display screen for the primary time
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Willis and Moore labored collectively for the primary time in 1991 after they costarred within the thriller Mortal Ideas.
“It was good,” Moore advised the Baltimore Solar, “contemplating that we now have by no means really labored collectively. It was actually a really perfect scenario for him. It additionally gave him an opportunity to do a special sort of function. It was an effective way for us to work collectively. It was good for us on plenty of ranges.”
July 20, 1991: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis welcome daughter Scout
In 1991, the actors expanded their household as soon as once more with a second daughter, Scout. “Being pregnant agrees with me,” Moore advised Vainness Honest whereas anticipating.
February 3, 1994: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis welcome daughter Tallulah
The couple welcomed their third and final baby collectively in 1994, daughter Tallulah.
June 1998: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis break up
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After over a decade of marriage, the pair introduced that they had been going their separate methods in 1998. They continued to be noticed collectively within the following months, together with on a household journey to Paris.
October 2000: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis finalize their divorce
The Die Laborious star and G.I. Jane actress famously settled their divorce in in the future, after taking two years to type out their property.
Following their break up, Willis opened as much as Rolling Stone concerning the altering nature of their relationship. “I nonetheless love Demi. We’re very shut. We’ve three youngsters whom we are going to proceed to lift collectively, and we’re in all probability as shut now as we ever had been. We notice we now have a lifelong dedication to our children. Our friendship continues. The establishment has been put aside.”
October 4, 2001: Demi Moore reveals assist for Bruce Willis on the Bandits premiere
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Proving that their divorce was certainly as amicable because it appeared, Moore supported her ex by attending the Los Angeles premiere of his film Bandits. On the occasion, the previous couple posed along with their three daughters.
2005: Demi Moore marries Ashton Kutcher
After being launched by a mutual buddy at a dinner in 2003, the mother of three started courting the That 70’s Present star. Two years later, the couple wed at their shared house in Beverly Hills in entrance of 100 household and associates, together with Moore’s daughters and Willis. The wedding lasted for six years, finally ending in divorce in 2011.
2009: Bruce Willis marries Emma Heming Willis
Willis went on to remarry as properly, tying the knot with mannequin Emma Heming Willis in 2009 at his house in Parrot Cay, Turks & Caicos. Moore and Kutcher had been among the many intimate crowd of company on the seaside nuptials. Willis and Emma later welcomed two youngsters collectively: daughter Mabel Ray in 2012 and Evelyn Penn in 2014.
June 2009: Bruce Willis says his blended household is “like a tribe”
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Quickly after saying “I do,” Willis and his new bride opened up about their newly-expanded household in an interview with W. “We have develop into like a tribe,” Bruce defined. “It is generated plenty of curiosity as a result of everybody can perceive resentment and envy within the breakup of a wedding, however they do not perceive how I can get together with my ex like that. Demi and I made a option to put the youngsters first, and we’re actually fortunate that it seems all of us have enjoyable collectively,” he continued, including, “I nonetheless love her, and I’ve plenty of respect for a way she lives her life.”
July 14, 2018: Demi Moore roasts Bruce Willis onstage
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The Ghost star shocked her ex-husband on the finish of his Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis, which was filmed at The Hollywood Palladium in 2018. The actress poked enjoyable at Willis’ parenting expertise, their marriage and extra.
“For these of you that do not know me, I’m Demi Moore,” started the mother of three. “I used to be married to Bruce for the primary three Die Laborious motion pictures, which is sensible, as a result of the final two sucked.”
Cracking a joke about his parenting type, Moore went on: “Bruce is tremendous beneficiant. When our daughter Rumer was a child and it was his flip to vary the diaper in the course of the evening, he would lean over and whisper to me, ‘I am going to provide you with a thousand {dollars} proper now in the event you change that diaper.’ ”
September 23, 2019: Bruce Willis reveals assist for Demi Moore at her ebook launch
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Willis was available to have fun the launch of his ex’s candid 2019 memoir, Inside Out, at a ebook celebration in L.A. In the course of the occasion, the actor posed for a gaggle photograph with Moore and their three daughters, in addition to his spouse Emma.
September 25, 2019: Demi Moore says she and Bruce Willis “felt extra linked” after their divorce
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Moore opened up about her divorce from Willis in Inside Out, writing, “It is a humorous factor to say, however I am very happy with our divorce.”
She added, “I believe Bruce was fearful firstly that I used to be going to make our break up troublesome, and that I might categorical my anger and no matter baggage that I had from our marriage by obstructing his entry to the youngsters — that I would flip to all of these ploys divorcing {couples} use as weapons. However I did not, and neither did he.”
Whereas the break up “wasn’t straightforward at first,” the previous pair labored via it. “We managed to maneuver the guts of our relationship, the guts of what created our household, into one thing new that gave the women a loving, supportive atmosphere with each mother and father.”
Ultimately, Moore mentioned, “We felt extra linked than we did earlier than the divorce.”
April 2020: Demi Moore and Bruce Willis self-isolate with their children
The pair made headlines early on within the COVID-19 pandemic for self-isolating collectively together with their three daughters at their house in Idaho.
“It has been actually humorous to have each of my mother and father in the home the place they raised us, which has been actually cute,” their daughter Scout mentioned on the Dopey podcast. “They’re each such nerdy, lovely, ’90s mother and father in a small city the place they selected to have their children and never be in L.A. It has been fairly cute.”
Whereas hunkering down, the duo documented a lot of their high quality time collectively, from hanging out in matching pajamas to engaged on photograph initiatives with their children, beginning a ebook membership and extra.
June 21, 2020: Demi Moore celebrates Bruce Willis on Father’s Day
Moore gave her ex a shout-out on Father’s Day in 2020, celebrating the dad-of-five with an Instagram publish. “Pleased Father’s Day, Bruce! Your children are so fortunate to have you ever ❤️,” the actress wrote alongside a slideshow of photographs by which Willis climbs ontoa desk to maneuver a lightweight fixture out of the best way for a gaggle photograph with all of his youngsters.
February 3, 2021: Demi Moore says staying house with Bruce Willis in the course of the pandemic was “a blessing”
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”It labored out that Bruce got here and hung out with us,” Moore defined to Naomi Campbell on the supermodel’s YouTube collection No Filter with Naomi, including that Willis’ spouse Emma and their two daughters joined quickly after.
“It was actually a blessing,” the actress mentioned. “It is every little thing that is come ahead has allowed us to reevaluate what’s essential and what wants consideration that has been missed and uncared for. It was wonderful.”
She added that her daughters “love their little sisters.”
“Our household no matter what the form of it’s, it is essential to maintain collectively and for the little ones to really feel comfy with me, and to know me so in addition they know their sisters higher,” Moore mentioned. “It was actually candy and we did have some foolish occasions for certain.”
October 25, 2021: Rumer Willis says she’s “so grateful” her mother and father made their household a precedence post-split
The celebrities’ youngsters have typically expressed their gratitude for the best way their mother and father dealt with their divorce, taking care to keep up a way of a household unit.
“I am extremely grateful that each of my mother and father have made such an effort my whole life that I by no means felt like I had to decide on between them,” Rumer advised PEOPLE. “I’ve plenty of associates who grew up with mother and father who obtained divorced at a younger age and I watched their mother and father, like, pit them in opposition to one another or have to decide on between holidays. And I did not have to do this, and I really feel so grateful that my mother and father made it such a precedence that we could possibly be a household, regardless that it appeared completely different.”
March 19, 2022: Demi Moore needs Bruce Willis a cheerful birthday
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Moore shared a candy Instagram tribute to her ex in celebration of his 67th birthday. ”Pleased birthday, Bruce! Grateful for our blended household 🤍,” Moore wrote alongside a photograph of the pair grinning beside one another in a kitchen, with Moore holding a slicing board stuffed with mushrooms.
March 30, 2022: Bruce Willis’ household reveals his aphasia analysis
The Die Laborious star’s household introduced through social media that he can be retiring from performing after being identified with aphasia, a degenerative illness that impacts one’s means to speak.
“To Bruce’s wonderful supporters, as a household we needed to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some well being points and has just lately been identified with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive talents,” they wrote. “On account of this and with a lot consideration Bruce is stepping away from the profession that has meant a lot to him,” the caption added.
“We’re transferring via this as a powerful household unit, and needed to convey his followers in as a result of we all know how a lot he means to you, as you do to him. As Bruce at all times says, ‘Stay it up’ and collectively we plan to just do that.” The word was signed by Moore, his spouse Emma, and the actor’s 5 daughters.
Could 17, 2022: Demi Moore shares a throwback photograph of her and Bruce Willis
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Moore has continued to indicate her love and assist for her ex following his aphasia analysis, sharing a throwback snap of the pair on the Cannes Movie Pageant premiere of his movie The Fifth Aspect. “From the Cannes archives, circa 1997,” Moore wrote alongside the photograph of the glammed-up duo on the crimson carpet.
December 2022: Demi Moore celebrates Christmas with Bruce Willis and household
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The exes celebrated the vacations collectively in 2022, posing for a uncommon household photograph with Bruce’s spouse and his 5 daughters. “We’re FAMILY!! Moving into the vacation spirit,” Moore wrote on Instagram alongside the blended household standing in entrance of a Christmas tree.
February 16, 2023: Bruce Willis’ household shares his frontotemporal dementia analysis
Lower than a 12 months after Willis’ aphasia analysis, Willis’ spouse Emma shared that the actor’s “situation has progressed” and he has been identified with frontotemporal dementia.
“Our household needed to start out by expressing our deepest gratitude for the unimaginable outpouring of affection, assist and fantastic tales we now have all obtained since sharing Bruce’s authentic analysis,” Emma wrote on Instagram.
A supply later advised PEOPLE that Willis’ blended household is “nearer than ever” following his analysis
In response to a press release from the household, Moore, Emma and his 5 daughters are specializing in serving to Willis “reside as full a life as potential.”