Demi Moore’s Unearthed Diary Reveals Dark Childhood Details
By Kelly Coffey-Behrens on February 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM EST
A newly discovered diary from Demi Moore’s early years offers a raw and deeply personal glimpse into the Hollywood star’s tumultuous upbringing.
The journal, which was reportedly discarded in a storage hangar once owned by her ex-husband Bruce Willis, documents shocking family secrets, struggles with addiction, and formative experiences that shaped Demi Moore's early life.
A Look At Demi Moore's Diary Entries
Moore revealed in the diary, obtained by Daily Mail, that she was originally meant to be named Elizabeth Faith Harmon, but her mother changed her name after leaving her biological father just weeks before she was born.
She only discovered the truth at 14 when she found a marriage certificate dated February 1963, when she had been born in 1962. Confronting her mother led to revelations about her true parentage and the instability that defined her childhood.
Her early years were marked by frequent moves, financial struggles, and parents who battled alcoholism. In one harrowing entry, Moore recounted an incident where she was forced to physically intervene in her mother’s suicide attempt.
“I got up and went to see what was going on. There was my mom trying to swallow a whole bottle of pills. My dad was trying to stop her but two hands just wasn’t cutting it. When he saw me, he said, ‘I’ll hold her down and I want you to dig the pills out of her mouth.’”
She noted that this was “the first of [her] suicide saves.”
Demi Moore Recalls Dragging Her Drunken Mother Out Of Bars
Her father, Danny Guynes, later died by suicide in 1980, while her mother, Virginia Guynes, continued her cycle of heavy drinking and partying, often bringing Moore along for the ride.
“In the bars, my mother loved when people told her she didn’t look old enough to be my mom. I wonder why,” Moore wrote. “I was a fourteen-and-a-half-year-old who looked twenty-five. I almost always got served.”
What initially seemed like fun quickly turned into something far more troubling. “That all seemed like great fun until they started having me drag her out because she was too drunk and obnoxious,” she added.
Demi Moore Recalls Being Exposed To Substance Abuse At An Early Age
Alcohol was a presence in Moore’s life from an incredibly young age. She recalled how witnessing adults drinking excessively became normal to her.
“Seeing grown-ups drunk was nothing unusual in my life. I'm not sure how old I was when I became consciously aware that what was in their glass sure the hell wasn't in mine, but I was going to find out.”
When Did Demi Moore Take Her First Sip Of Beer?
She took her first sip of beer at just three years old. On a family trip, an aunt handed Moore and a cousin a six-pack of beer and a marijuana joint, despite them being only nine and ten years old at the time.
“I just thought I was so f-cking cute and oh so grown up,” she wrote.
The substance use didn’t stop there. “Later on in the trip, we had a powwow with a bunch of Boy Scouts, hippie types, and my family were all in a circle just passing joint after joint, me being the grown-up that I was definitely joined right in.”
Demi Moore's Teenage Rebellion And First Encounters With Drugs And Sex
By the time she was a teenager, Moore had fully embraced a party lifestyle. After moving to Redondo Beach, California, she fell into a new social circle that revolved around drinking and drug use.
“My new character was now a smoker, drinker, and pot smoker,” she admitted.
She and her friends drank whatever they could get their hands on, with the sole purpose of getting as intoxicated as possible. “My girlfriend and I didn’t care what we drank, we just drank to get f-cked up. I made friends with that white bowl, let me tell you,” she wrote, referring to vomiting in the toilet.
At 14, Moore tried Quaaludes for the first time, furthering her experimentation with drugs. That same year, she lost her virginity while on a trip to Mexico. “I found a guy I really liked. He was nice and a motorcycle champ, wasn’t I the hot shot,” she recounted. However, the experience left her feeling empty.
“The sex didn’t mean anything. But if that’s all it took not to be rejected, what the hell, that was easy.”
From growing up surrounded by addiction to grappling with feelings of self-worth and validation, Moore’s candid writings paint a portrait of a survivor who navigated chaos before ultimately transforming her life.
