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Demi MooreandAshton Kutcherwere together for eight years before splitting in 2011.
The couple met in 2003 and quickly made headlines as an unexpected pair with their15-year agegap. They wed in 2005 but later separated after six years of marriage.
Two years after their divorce was finalized in 2013,Kutcher marriedformer costarMila Kunis. Moore is currently datingcelebrity chef Daniel Humm.
Kutcher has remained close with Moore’s three daughters —Rumer,ScoutandTallulah, whom she shares with ex-husbandBruce Willis. “I think you try … but at the same time I am not their father,” Kutcher recalled of his relationship with Moore and her daughters. “I was never trying to be their father.I always had respect and honored Bruce[Willis], and I think he’s a brilliant human being and a wonderful man. If they don’t want an engagement with me, I’m not going to force it upon them. But they all do and it’s great.”
From their first meeting to her tell-all memoir, here’s a look back atDemi Mooreand Ashton Kutcher’s relationship.
May 2003: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher meet
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Moore and Kutcher met at acasual dinner with friendsand became romantically involved shortly afterward. In May 2003, the couple were seen on a double date withSean “P. Diddy” Combsand Kim Porter in Miami. A witness told PEOPLE that Moore and Kutcher shared a “very romantic” kiss as they left the restaurant.
March 19, 2005: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher joke about their age difference onSaturday Night Live
In 2005, Kutcher hostedSNL, and Moore made a cameo appearance joking about their 15-year age difference. In Kutcher’s opening monologue, he introduced Moore to the audience, who wore old-age makeup and used a walker to appear much older than 42.
September 24, 2005: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher get married
Moore and Kutcher marriedin front of 100 guests at their home in Beverly Hills, California. “It was abeautiful wedding,” a friend of Moore’s told PEOPLE. “It was incredibly unpretentious, representing who they really are.” Another friend added, “There was just so much love in the room.”
2006: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher experience a late-term pregnancy loss
After their wedding,Moore and Kutcher underwent in vitro fertilization, tried other fertility treatments and even began looking at adoption.
At 42, Mooresuffered a miscarriagesix months into the pregnancy. “I can’t even really bring fully to words how lost, empty, desperate, confused,” Moore recalled toDiane Sawyerin 2019. “I really lost sight of everything that was right in front of me, which was the family that I had.”
November 2006: Demi Moore discusses family dynamic with Ashton Kutcher and her ex-husband Bruce Willis
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In an interview withAccess Hollywood, Moore opened up about co-parenting her three daughters with her ex-husband Willis and how they put their kids first. Moore and Willis made sure to keep positive relationships with each other and their new partners. “[Bruce] and Ashton have a mutual respect for one another and we approach it really as a team,” Moore said. “We’re a team and we want the best for our children.”
January 2008: Demi Moore talks about home life with Ashton Kutcher and her daughters
Before his relationship with Moore, Kutcher was a bachelor living with a roommate — but Moore said he adjusted well to living in ahouse full of women. “I definitely can’t answer for him but I think it certainly wasn’t a difficult transition,” Moore toldV Magazine. “Ashton’s relationship with his own mother is really wonderful, so it made the transition to being with a woman with daughters something he didn’t bat an eye at. It also says a lot about the confidence that he holds within himself as an individual.”
“Wetalk about everything,” Kutcher had previously said of his relationship with Moore’s daughters. “It’s amazing.”
August 3, 2009: Ashton Kutcher calls Demi Moore “magic”
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September 18, 2010: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher defy negative reports of their relationship
With tabloid rumors swirling about Kutcher’s infidelity — which Moore would later address in her memoirInside Out— the couple put on a show of solidarity leading up to their fifth wedding anniversary.
Kutcher visited Moore on the set ofThe Reasonable Bunch, with a source telling PEOPLE, “She gushes over Ashton. You could hear them laughing in her trailer.”
September 2011: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary apart
The next year, rumors began to surface that Moore and Kutcher were having difficulties. One day before their sixth wedding anniversary, Moore quoted the Greek philosopher Epictetus online. “When we are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself & study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger,” she tweeted.
Moore and Kutcher also spent their anniversary apart: She traveled to New York City to promote her short film and Kutcher went to San Diego for the weekend.
November 17, 2011: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher announce their split
Kutcher and Moore both released separate statements announcing they were ending their marriage in November 2011. “It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided toend my six-year marriageto Ashton,” Moore said. “As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.”
“I will forever cherish the time I spent with Demi,” Kutcher said. “Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunatelysometimes they fail.”
March 6, 2012: Ashton Kutcher supports Demi Moore’s daughter Rumer
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Though he and Moore had separated, Kutcher was in the audience for stepdaughter Rumer’s concert in Los Angeles. Kutcher reportedly sang along, took photos and greeted Rumer after her performance.
April 2012: Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis start dating
Though he and Moore weren’t divorced yet, Kutcher began an unexpected romance with formerThat ’70s Showcostar Mila Kunis. The pair spent a weekend away together near Santa Barbara, California. PEOPLE reported that Moore was “jealous and frustrated,” but the new couplegot serious quickly.
December 16, 2012: Ashton Kutcher files for divorce from Demi Moore
Over a year after separating, Kutcherfiled papersto legally divorce Moore. The actress responded three months later, seekingspousal supportand attorney fees from Kutcher, who had earned a reported $24 million in the previous year for his role inTwo and a Half Men.
November 20, 2013: Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher finalize their divorce
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Nearly two years after they announced their separation, Moore and Kutcher’sdivorce settlementwas finalized.
2014-2016: Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis get married and have children
In February 2014, Kunis wasspotted wearing a diamond ringwhile out shopping, and a source later confirmed to PEOPLE that she and Kutcher were engaged.
Later that year, Kutcher and Kunis welcomed a daughter,Wyatt Isabelle, on Oct. 1, 2014. The couplegot marriedon July 4, 2015, and welcomed their sonDimitri Portwoodin November 2016.
September 2019: Demi Moore writes about Ashton Kutcher in her memoir
In 2019, Moore published her candid memoirInside Out,revealing personal information about her three marriages. In the book, she wrote aboutKutcher’s infidelity, including threesomes with which she wasn’t completely comfortable, and the relationship’stoll on her health. Moore also opened up about herdrug and alcohol abuse.
Kutcherdid not acknowledgeany of Moore’s claims.
February 2020: Ashton Kutcher says it’s “all good” with ex-wife Demi Moore
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During a February 2020 interview onWTF with Marc Maron, Kutcher said there is no bad blood between the former couple. “There’s no badness,” he said. “It’s all good, we don’t hang out. I make a really conscious effort to stay in touch with the girls. It was eight years.”
He continued of Moore’s daughters, “I washelping raise teenage girlsthrough their adolescence. I love them. I’m never going to stop loving them and respecting them and honoring them and rooting for them to be successful in whatever they are pursuing.”
February 13, 2022: Demi Moore and Mila Kunis star in a Super Bowl commercial together
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Moore, Kutcher and Kunis all seem to have a good sense of humor about their current and former relationships — so much so that Moore and Kunis starred in aSuper Bowl commercialtogether, poking some fun at Kutcher.
In the AT&T commercial, the two women are on stage at a high school reunion. “I had no idea that we went to the same high school,” Moore says. (Moore and Kunis actually did attend the same high school, albeit at different times.) “We have a lot in common,” Kunis replies before the announcer tells the women, “Please get off my stage.”
March 2022: Demi Moore begins dating Daniel Humm
January 31, 2023: Ashton Kutcher recalls feeling like a “failure” after Demi Moore divorce
During a digital cover interview forEsquire, Kutcher opened up about his marriage and divorce from ex-wife Moore.
“Nothing makes you feel like a failure like divorce,” theYour Place or Mineactor said. “Divorce feels like a wholesale f—ing failure. You failed atmarriage.”
He also spoke about the late-term pregnancy loss Moore endured during their marriage. “Losing a kid that you think you’re going to have, and that close to thinking you’re going to have a kid, is really, really painful,” he told the outlet. “Everyone deals with that in different ways.”
source: people.com
