Demi Moore Recalls 'Succinct' Words from Daughter Scout About 'Celebrating' Self Instead of 'Wasting Time' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Demi Mooreis 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 tohave more self-acceptanceover the years, the actress revealed her daughterScout Willisalso 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 daughtersRumer, 36, andTallulah, 30, with her ex-husbandBruce 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, 2023.Stefanie Keenan/Getty

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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.’ ”

Demi Moore at the Gotham Awards in New York City on Dec. 2, 2024.Mike Coppola/Getty

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Scout Willis and Demi Moore in Paris on Oct. 5, 2021.Victor Boyko/Getty

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“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 sheperformed a live set at The Loftinside the Big Apple’s City Winery on Nov. 15.

“@scoutlaruewillislive in NYC 🏙🗽,” the actress wrote over the clip on her Instagram Stories as Scout sang her song “Over and Over.”

source: people.com