Demi Moore Says Her Parents Let Her Drive a Car Without a License at 13, Calls Decision 'Lunacy'

Mar. 15, 2025

Demi Mooreis sharing why her childhood included a bit of “lunacy.”

Moore, 61, recently appeared onThe Drew Barrymore Showand spoke about her upbringing, revealing that her parents let her drive a car without a license at age 13.

“Driving on the freeway, I mean, my parents would say, ‘Okay, here’s the deal. You can take the car. If you get stopped, you just have to say you took the car without permission.’ And they kind of saw that is a win-win for everybody, but that is lunacy,” she said.

The actress and hostDrew Barrymorebonded over the fact thatthey “were both more the parent to our parents.”

Demi Moore attends the Los Angeles Premiere of “The Substance” at Directors Guild Of America on September 16, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Jon Kopaloff/Getty

Jon Kopaloff/Getty

Moore previously opened up about her upbringing in a September 2019 interview withHarper’s Bazaar, recalling a time when her mother Virginia suffered from a drug overdose when she was a child.

“The next thing I remember is using my fingers, the small fingers of a child, to dig the pills my mother had tried to swallow out of her mouth while my father held it open and told me what to do,” said Moore.

“I accept that my parents did the best they could, and my mom did the best she could with the level of consciousness and awareness that she had at the time,” Moore told Barrymore.

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TheSubstanceactressshares daughtersRumer Willis, 36,Scout Willis, 33, andTallulah Willis, 30, with her ex-husbandBruce Willis. She described learning how to navigate her relationship with her mother after having children of her own.

Demi Moore with her three daughters.Chad Salvador/Variety via Getty

Chad Salvador/Variety via Getty

“I don’t think my mother came into this world with the intention to be less than nurturing, to be neglectful, to not really be able to show up as a parent for me. I think she came in with the innocence of a soul that wanted to find happiness, to feel love and to confirm,” she shared.

“And when I look and find the compassion for my mother, I know that in that, I then open the pathway for my children to have compassion for me,” Moore added.

Barrymore, 49, agreed with Moore’s sentiments, expressing: “And that is why I say to my mom ‘I love you,’ because the hard, weird, crazy choices you made led me to here.”

While speaking with PEOPLE in September,Scout opened up about her famous mom, crediting her for being “such a model of working on feeling good from the inside because I think there are people who are so exquisitely beautiful from the outside, who still feel so insecure and are in so much pain.”

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“So I think she fostered in all of us a real desire to just feel beautiful, feel sexy, feel embodied," added Scout.

source: people.com