14 DAY TRIAL // Just the other day, a video with Tallulah Willis, the youngest daughter of Bruce Willis and ex-wife Demi Moore, emerged online, offering an insight into the tormented teenage years of a celebrity kid made to feel by the media that she was never pretty enough. Today, rumor has it that Tallulah is in rehab.
Rumors about all 3 Willis girls going “off the rails” have been making the rounds for years, with countless unreliable and unnamed insiders saying that this came to happen because they had non-stop access to drugs and alcohol from a very young age, and perhaps even worse, parents who didn’t care what they did at night.
Actress Demi Moore had problems with addiction too, so the same insiders tried to make it sound as if her girls were “emulating” her in a way.
Now, Star magazine is saying that, in late July, Tallulah checked herself in The Meadows treatment center in Arizona, a facility very popular with celebrities. She has finally been made to understand that her issues with cocaine and alcohol are out of control and that she needs professional help to overcome them.
“Tallulah doesn’t know right from wrong, because she was raised without boundaries. She looks for trouble to get attention,” an insider says.
Another recalls an incident when Scout, Tallulah’s sister, walked in on her in her hotel room, as she was snorting cocaine. Despite Tallulah’s pleas, she went and told their dad who, in turn, threatened to cut her off if she didn’t address this problem already.
Instead of listening to reason and getting herself to rehab, the report goes, Tallulah moved from Los Angeles to New York, where she could be outside her parents’ reach, and her drug addiction escalated. It was Demi who convinced her to seek help, another source claims.
“Demi had been shocked when Tallulah confessed to her, but she knew enough not to judge. She knew her daughter needed her, and she was glad she could be there to help,” says the spy.
However, “Demi feels so much guilt about Tallulah spiraling out of control like she did. It’s like she’s living past experiences all over again. But she’s trying to be strong for her daughter,” the insider continues.
In the aforementioned video, released online this week, Tallulah admitted to having had a “very difficult” time growing up in the spotlight because of the constant criticism she received for the way she looked. It all started when she was about 13 and lasted until about one year ago, when she embraced her beauty and found the confidence in herself she needed so badly.
The scars will be there for ever, though. Tallulah recalled how she had starved herself to be thin and “beautiful,” how she dressed provocatively to compensate for that which she “was lacking in the face,” and how she even developed body dysmorphia.
She promised she was better – and had been so for the past year. If the Star report is accurate and she really is in rehab, it would be a shame to find out she’s still a long way from being ok.