Demi Moore Reveals 'Smartest' Parenting Decision She Made With Bruce Willis

Demi Moore recently discussed the "smartest" parenting decision she and ex-husband Bruce Willis made.

On the February 6 episode of the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, Moore spoke about her daughters: Rumer Willis, 36; Scout LaRue Willis, 33; and Tallulah Willis, 31.

"I think I made probably—well, I want to say we made because we did make the decision, Bruce and I, together. Probably the smartest thing we ever did was decide to make our primary residence in Idaho, out of L.A., and that's where we essentially raised them," The Substance actor said.

Moore, who is a Best Actress nominee this year, added that "Bruce liked to ski." And while she "had never been there" and "didn't know anything about the state," she enjoyed it.

"The first time I went, my oldest daughter was 12 days old, and so it was kind of looked at more like 'this is a getaway in the mountains' kind of thing," Moore said. "And then when she started kindergarten and we were here, a lot of work … was on location. And so I thought, You know, I grew up where you went to the school closest to your house. And L.A. was a whole overwhelming and perhaps even a little bit intimidating for me as a young mother."

The G.I. Jane star continued: "I just thought, What are we doing when we could be in this small town in a very different experience for them away from this big world that they're going to already get so much of? And so we just made that decision to make it the primary residence."

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Moore and Bruce Willis were married from 1987 to 2000. The Die Hard actor remarried in 2009 and has two daughters with his wife, Emma Heming Willis. They are Mabel and Evelyn Willis.

Host Marc Maron said on the podcast that he and Scout Willis had met recently and discussed their fathers, who have both been diagnosed with dementia.

"I met Scout, did you know that?" he told Moore, who replied: "Yeah, she said you guys met. I don't remember now. Oh, was it at a comedy show?"

"Yeah, she saw me at a comedy show. I was talking about my dad with dementia, and she said, 'Hey, my dad, you know.' And so we talked, and we had lunch once and talked about dads with that," Maron said. "It was helpful."

"She's a great human," Moore said.

"Yeah, good singer, too," the stand-up comedian added, noting that Moore had "good kids."

"They are really good," she said. "You know, they're good people, which is nice to be able to say that, reflect that as a truth."

In February 2023, Bruce Willis' family publicly shared his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in a statement, after disclosing in March 2022 that he had been experiencing aphasia.

According to the Mayo Clinic, aphasia is "a disorder that affects how you communicate. It can impact your speech, as well as the way you write and understand both spoken and written language."

"Since we announced Bruce's diagnosis of aphasia in spring 2022, Bruce's condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD)," the family said in the later statement. "Unfortunately, challenges with communication are just one symptom of the disease Bruce faces. While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis."