Demi Moore is recognized in Hollywood for her generous and supportive attitude towards good causes. She is one of those who is always ready when needed to raise funds. Still, it seemed to surprise her that this month a well-known Breast Cancer Research Foundation chose her as the recipient of the Courage Award.
Demi Moore appeared at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel gala with her aunt DeAnna, who had this disease 18 years ago, a true survivor. “What is courage?” the Ghost actress asked after being presented with her award by her friend Rita Wilson, who along with her husband Tom Hanks are directors of the organization.
“I look at the incredible courage my aunt has had, facing her illness without fear and with faith. She is my light. Courage cannot exist in isolation and does not belong to a single person. “This award is for the sisterhood of incredible women who have taught me how to be brave,” she dedicated on the stage where Sting would later sing.
In May, one day before the Cannes Film Festival ends, Demi will host another benefit gala, this time for anFAR, the organization founded by Elizabeth Taylor to support research into a cure for AIDS. Demi Moore will be at the festival also presenting a film she filmed in France with Dennis Quaid, a feminist horror drama, The Substance.
The actress remembers that when she divorced actor Bruce Willis in 2000, she was at a great point in her career, but she does not regret having put acting on the back burner to stay at home dedicated to caring for her three daughters, Rumer , Scout and Tallulah Willis.
Although now she seems determined to regain ground. She has just been seen as a woman from New York high society, from the inner circle of the writer Truman Capote, who would betray her as Ryan Murphy told in the series Feud: Capote Vs the Swans.
In a cast of excellent actresses, Demi had to represent Ann Woodward, whom Capote accused in an essay he wrote in Esquire magazine of having murdered her husband, which is why he baptized her Bang Bang.
Demi received very good reviews for that role. And the attention of Taylor Sheridan, the creator of Yellowstone (Kevin Costner’s series), who recruited her for his new saga, Landman, about the world of Texas oil magnates, alongside Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Hamm.
She became such good friends with her ex that in 2020 Demi Moore isolated herself during the pandemic with Bruce Willis, her three daughters, the actor’s new wife and his two daughters, Mabel and Evelyn. She considers him “a beloved member of my family” and accompanies him now that Willis is ill with a type of dementia. She is seen accompanying him and sharing the joy of his first granddaughter.
Demi says she tries to teach her daughters to lower their expectations and receive what the father can give them at this moment, “his love, his sweetness.”
“I think what Paulo Coelho says is true, that the universe conspires to give you everything you want, but not in the way you expect,” the actress said in 2019 in her book Inside Out, My Story, where it was brutally honest about everything she suffered as a child because of her parents.
Especially at the hands of her mother, who, due to her addictions, gave her away for $500 to a man to abuse her when Demi was 15 years old. She says that her aunt DeAnna was the one who guided her so that she could forgive her and help her in her last moments.
Her mother died of cancer in 1998. When they told her that she was sick, she did not believe it and traveled to see her thinking that she had sold her like other times to the paparazzi who would be waiting for her at the door. “When I decided to take care of my mother at the end of her life, I began to heal my wound,” he acknowledged. “I hate to think that our mothers and grandmothers fought heroic battles without the support and containment of a community that they deserved.”
