Tallulah Willis almost died from alcohol poisoning when she was just 15 years old.
The 25-year-old – youngest daughter of Ghost actress Demi Moore and Die Hard star Bruce Willis – opened up about turning to alcohol when things were ‘painful’ in her personal life.
During an appearance on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk, on Facebook Watch, she was joined by her mum, and sister Rumer, when she spoke about her past.
Recalling her first drink, aged just 14, she told the host: ‘We were on family vacation.
‘It was champagne, it was very sweet. And then when I was 15, I almost died from alcohol poisoning.’
She said that she later began to turn to alcohol even more when ‘things were very painful’ and had ‘no regard’ for her life at her lowest point.
Tallulah ‘hit a new low ‘as dad Bruce put her up at the Beverly Hills Hotel, when he welcomed a baby girl with second wife Emma Heming.
‘[Older sister] Scout came in to tell me and I had taken a bunch of codeine and I had done a bunch of cocaine that morning and Scout couldn’t wake me up. She was shaking me,’ she continued.
‘When I finally woke up she was crying and I made her feel horrible about it.
‘I was like, “It’s fine, let me got back to bed.” I woke up a few hours later and I was just hysterically crying because it was the first window of sobriety, the tiny five minutes you wake up before you start using again.
‘The feeling of it was just like death on my bones. I had no regard for my life, I had no care.’
Rumer and Scout intervened, with Tallulah moving back in with mum Demi and seeking treatment in a bid to turn her life around.
Elsewhere in the emotional episode, Demi, 56, spoke candidly about her own struggles with alcohol addiction, and the moment she relapsed while on holiday with ex-husband Ashton Kutcher, after staying sober for 20 years.
Explaining why she decided to start drinking once more, the Striptease star revealed she ‘tried to fit the mould of the woman he wanted his wife to be’ – but insisted he wasn’t the ‘cause’ of her relapse.
