Demi Moore Recalls 'Succinct' Words from Daughter Scout About 'Celebrating' Self Instead of 'Wasting Time' (Exclusive)
The actress spoke to PEOPLE at the 2024 Gotham Awards on Monday, Dec. 2
Demi Moore is striving to be a great example to her daughters.
Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at the 2024 Gotham Awards on Monday, Dec. 2, about how she has grown to have more self-acceptance over the years, the actress revealed her daughter Scout Willis also chooses to walk down the same path.
“My middle daughter Scout, in many of our conversations, she kind of succinctly put it. She said, ‘I want to quit wasting time focusing on all that I'm not, when I could be celebrating all that I am,’ ” Moore, 62, recalls at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
In addition to Scout, 33, Moore shares daughters Rumer, 36, and Tallulah, 30, with her ex-husband Bruce Willis, whom she was married to from 1987 to 2000.
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Scout Willis and Demi Moore in Los Angeles on Oct. 12, 2023Related: Rumer Willis Dubs Mom Demi Moore 'Hot Granny' in Loving Birthday Post: '62 Never Looked Better'
Moore’s words came after she also opened up to PEOPLE about her journey with aging.
“I don't know if I would contextualize it just around aging as much as looking at the idea of how, over the course of my whole life,” she says. “How much I have had judgment against myself that I can look back and go, 'At 20, at 30.' ”
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Demi Moore at the Gotham Awards in New York City on Dec. 2, 2024The G.I Jane star adds, “I was finding things that weren't good enough ... and so my relationship with it now is much more in a joyous acceptance.”
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Scout Willis and Demi Moore in Paris on Oct. 5, 2021"I mean, of course, there's things that you go, 'I wish that was not that way,' ” Moore tells PEOPLE. “But in terms of the whole, I see myself in the fullness of who I am as opposed to just the external idea of who I am.”
Meanwhile, Moore recently supported Scout as she performed a live set at The Loft inside the Big Apple's City Winery on Nov. 15.
“@scoutlaruewillis live in NYC 🏙🗽,” the actress wrote over the clip on her Instagram Stories as Scout sang her song “Over and Over.”
