For a long time folks have been criticising actress Demi Moore for an apparent unwillingness to act like the adult she is. She caught heat for partying with her daughters, stripping for Snoop Dogg, tweeting bikini photos in her bathroom that look like they came from “that girl” on Facebook and for marrying that much younger Ashton Kutcher dude.
Up until the latest piece of news I’ve been like, “whatever,” because she was doing her thing and not really seeming to hurt anyone. So what egregious act has flipped me over to the “team Demi might need to mature a little” crowd? According to sources with TMZ the recent emergency call to paramedics on her behalf was because the 49-year-old went semi-conscious from doing whip-its.
WHIP-ITS!?!
Man, it’s been a long time since I’ve even heard the term whip-it unless that Salt-N-Pepa or Divo song comes on the classics radio station. There’s no way to sugar coat this, getting high off nitrous oxide is something kids who aren’t thinking straight do, not a mother who’s darn near 50. As we reported, Demi is currently in a treatment facility for exhaustion (Hollywood Code word for substance abuse!) <em>People also has a report from friends who say Demi has had an unhealthy dependence on prescription drugs for a while, and that this may have come into play with her split from Ashton:
Sources close to both Moore and Kutcher tell PEOPLE that Moore’s prescription drug use was a contributing factor to the end of her marriage to Kutcher, 33.
“It was a sticking point for Ashton,” a source tells PEOPLE. “He wanted her to take care of herself and get a hold of things, and she wouldn’t.”
Adds the source, “Her family and friends have been really worried.”
Another friend told People that her trip to the hospital was brought required because Demi suffered a seizure (perhaps from the whip-its, or possibly a bad mix of ‘scripts, alcohol, etc.)
February’s Harper’s Bazaar magazine, which featured Moore on the cover, also raised some red flags concerning Moore’s current mental state.
About her body: “Thank for you standing by me, for being there no matter what I have put you through.”
Extremely sad quote where Demi muses that she may not be worthy of being loved: “There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don’t really find the love of yourself. What scares me is that I’m going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I’m really not lovable, that I’m not worthy of being loved. That there’s something fundamentally wrong with me.”
Demi! Of course you’re worthy of being loved, just not by whip-its!
We wish this whole story wasn’t true, but we definitely hope the whip-its isn’t true.
