Demi Moore recently opened up about why she once stepped away from the spotlight.
In an interview with Glamour published on Wednesday, October 22, the former Brat Pack member, 62, was asked if “there ever a point at which you achieved something that you thought you wanted, only to realize that the dream had expired?”
“Well, it was a realization after striving, working hard, having the good fortune of certain films, having really enormous success, and that [was] able to keep moving me forward and giving me even greater opportunities,” Moore responded.
The Golden Globe award winner — who was married to Bruce Willis, 70, from 1987 to 2000, and shares daughters Rumer, 37, Scout, 34, and Tallulah, 31, with him — explained that her personal life crumbling seemingly made her re-evaluate her career.
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“And then certain personal things happen. My mother died, my marriage ended and I stepped back from work to be with my kids,” Moore told the outlet. “And there was a moment I realized that my own success — which had been a real driving thrust, a real motivation—wasn’t enough.”
“I had to reconnect with what moved me — why was I really doing this? We know that outside success is never the answer,” she explained. “And so I think recalibrating took me quite a while to really find the place in me that felt that what I had to offer from my inside was worthy of striving to do meaningful work.”
Moore has seen a career resurgence over the last few years, starring in the Oscar-winning 2024 film The Substance.
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