14 DAY TRIAL // Ashton Kutcher doesn’t talk all that much about his personal life, but when he does, he makes it worth the while for his fans. The actor is now promoting a new season of “Two and a Half Men” and he’s opening up about fatherhood in a new interview on The Talk.
Video of the chat is available below. Also on the show was Kutcher’s co-star Jon Cryer, who also talked a bit about his own experience with fatherhood, including how his younger co-star helped him out one time.
It would not have been possible without ex-wife Demi Moore, Ashton reveals.
“I’ve been a parent to teenage girls before in my life”
This is the first series of interviews that Kutcher is doing since the birth of his daughter with fiancée Mila Kunis, Wyatt Isabelle, and we’re probably to expect more chats on the topic. That is to say, given the attention, he will have no other choice but to answer questions, so he’s bound to say the same things over and over again.
One for instance is his “baby whisperer” / superhero story that he told the ladies on The View, which is a word-for-word copy of the one he told Conan O’Brien the night before. What Ashton didn’t say on Conan though was that being with his ex-wife Demi Moore prepared him for fatherhood.
When the two met, fell in love, and then got married, Demi had full custody of 3 girls, her daughters with ex-husband Bruce Willis, to whom Ashton grew very close during their 6-year marriage. He was their father figure and he helped with their bringing up, so, yes, he counts that as his initiation to fatherhood.
On the downside, he smiles, being a father to an infant is an entirely different thing than helping out with young and teen girls.
Google has the key: the owner’s manual for babies
Because he understood fairly early that what was coming with the birth of his child was an experience he was completely unprepared for, Ashton decided to do his research. He vouches that Google is the best owner’s manual there is for first-time parents, even if the results are not always very reliable or trustworthy.
But before he goes online for answers, he looks to his fiancée for counsel. “For me, I go to my partner and I talk to Mila and we make choices. We both did a lot of research on infants,” he adds.
From what he’s saying, they’re doing a fine job on parenting without help, on their own. According to Kutcher, they don’t have a nanny or a night nurse, because they want to be full-time hands-on parents to little Wyatt.
