I was raped when I was 15 by man who paid mom $500 – Demi Moore
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Demi Moore has said she was raped when she was 15 years old by a man who claimed to have paid her alcoholic mother $500 (£402).
SkyNews reports that the Ghost actress makes the claim in her new memoir, Inside Out, which was discussed during a Good Morning America interview with Diane Sawyer.
She said her mother Virginia King began taking her to bars when she was a teenager so they would get attention from men.
One night, she recalled coming home and her mother was in their apartment with an older man, who also had the keys to their home. After the man raped her, Moore said he asked her how it felt “to be wh***d by your mother for $500”. “It was rape and a devastating betrayal,” she wrote in the book, which will be released this week.
She told People magazine that her book was shaped by a concise yet complicated inquiry. “I centered (it) on a fundamental question, which is, ‘How did I get here?’” she said. “Coming from where I’ve come from, how did I get here?” It’s the question she asks from the jump – in the prologue, a gripping account of the moments leading up to her 2012 hospitalization, which, by her account, included “a hit of nitrous oxide” and “a puff of synthetic pot”.
Moore’s parents were far from the ideal. Her mom, Virginia King, was a teen when Moore was conceived, and the man she knew as her dad, Danny Guynes, who was less than a year older, had a tumultuous on-and-off relationship. (Moore’s biological father is Charlie Harmon.) She and her younger brother, Morgan, were uprooted often, even kidnapped by her “dad” Guynes once.
When Moore and her mom were living on their own in an apartment, a man befriended them, who made Moore “slightly uneasy.” One day when Moore entered the apartment, the man, who she says was “three times” her age at the time (15), was present.
Moore writes that the man raped her, explaining “For decades, I didn’t even think of it as rape,” but rather “something I caused, something I felt obligated to do because this man expected it from me.” The man later insinuated Moore’s mother was privy to what had occurred.
“How does it feel to be whored by your mother for five hundred dollars?” the man asked her. While Moore is not convinced her mother knew what would transpire that day, she doesn’t condone her mother handing over the key to their apartment where the two would be unsupervised. “That’s not what a mother does,” Moore writes.
