Demi Moore is looking back at a dark time in her life.
The actress joined Howard Stern on Wednesday’s episode of his SiriusXM radio show and opened up about her alleged rape at 15.
As detailed in her new biography, Inside Out, Moore recalled living with her then-single mother when an older man started dating her mom and hanging around their home. According to Moore, the man once forced himself into their house while Moore was home alone and raped her. After, Moore says the man asked, “How does it feel to be whored by your mother for five hundred dollars?”
“I knew what he had been kind of leaning in to want and I was pulling away. I felt trapped, I didn’t want and I was clear that I didn’t. I felt like it was my fault. I felt like I had behaved in a way that was mature like I really knew a lot. I never really looked at myself as being a kid. I never looked at it as rape,” she told Stern.
“I saw it as unfortunate, I was very embarrassed by it,” she added.
“I don’t think it was a conscious exchange. I think it was an unconscious one that, no matter what, she gave him the key,” Moore said of the “whored” comment. “I never said anything to her. I think I felt so much shame, I took action and I moved out, two days later. Forgiveness is essential to our well being. I do know my parents were doing the best they could. I think they didn’t have tools, they didn’t have a language [to be better parents].”
When Stern asked for more details about the man, Moore revealed he had his own family.
“He used to, when it started to move into this weird place, he would say to me he had daughters my age,” the “Ghost” actress explained. “He would say, ‘But you’re not good enough to be around them.’ What a horrible thing.”
Inside Out is available now.
