How Demi Moore Restored Her Relationship With Her Daughters After Trauma & Substance Abuse

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After years of strained communication, Demi Moore enjoys a close relationship with her daughters, Rumer, 31, Scout, 27, and Tallulah, 25 — a new chapter for the women in more ways than one. The revelation that the G.I. Jane actress has patched things up with her family comes on the heels of the release of her candid new memoir, Inside Out. And, according to a new source, there were times Moore’s life created so much “chaos” that any sort of reconciliation seemed practically impossible.

“She was really struggling mentally and didn’t take care of herself. She didn’t have the best relationship with her daughters either and her life was just chaos,” a source told People of the destructive years that followed her split from ex-husband Ashton Kutcher. As a result, it created distance between her and her children, as Moore addressed in her book.

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But Moore has focused her energies over the last few years on getting healthy and restoring the closeness she once had with Rumer, Scout and Tallulah. “Now, she has a beautiful relationship with all of her daughters,” said the source. “Demi feels bad about the years she wasn’t healthy. She really tries to make up for it now. Her daughters are amazing. Demi is involved in their everyday lives. And they are supportive of Demi. They love that she wrote a memoir.”

Getting to this point wasn’t easy, though. In a telling interview with The New York Times that went live last week, Moore admitted she sought professional help to address some of her issues — including a rehab program for trauma, codependency and substance abuse, as well as independent work with a doctor specializing in integrative medicine to assist in healing the health issues that contributed to her decline.

The effort hasn’t gone unnoticed by her daughters. Scout told the Times she was proud of their mom for “doing the internal work that she didn’t have time to do, for a long time, because she was just in survival mode.” Rumer said that the journey has given her a newfound empathy for her mom’s struggles. “We grow up thinking that our parents are these immovable gods of Olympus,” she said. “Obviously as we grow older, we start to realize how much our parents are just people.”

Today, Moore insists she has maintained her sobriety — and her relationship with her daughters. In fact, she, Rumer and Scout are taking a 10-month-long spiritual psychology course together. It’s a far cry from those unhealthy years after her split from Kutcher when, as Moore explains in the memoir, she had “no career, no relationship.”

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