Scout Willis has weighed in after her sister, Tallulah, shared unexpectedly personal thoughts about their former stepdad, Ashton Kutcher, on social media.
As previously reported, Tallulah, 31, sparked attention earlier this week when she made rare public remarks about Kutcher, 47, in the comments of a post by Gwyneth Paltrow discussing step-parenting.
“I have a lot to say on this! Especially how to move through an ex-step parent,” she wrote, adding two red heart emojis.
When a follower asked if she was referring to Kutcher, she replied candidly: “This maybe should have been a private message lol but yes I have personal experience with this.”
Tallulah, who was just a child when her mom Demi Moore married Kutcher, added, “No one needs to be a bad guy for a situation to be healed. There’s room for everyone.”
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Scout, 33, said she supported Tallulah’s sentiment and shared her own view on how the family handled the split.
“She made a rare comment about stepdad Ashton Kutcher, and she said no one has to be the bad guy,” ET’s Cassie DiLaura noted.
Scout responded, “No, and I don’t think so. That’s not the way I hold it [or] my mom holds it...I think, since my parents divorced when I was young, it’s always been handled with absolute grace and love, and I think that really is the way forward for everything. It’s just like putting the children first and just handling everything with a lot of mutual respect.”
When reminded of her sister's admission that the comment was probably better suited to a private message, Scout said, “Well, Tallulah is not nothing if not vulnerable and wonderful online.”
Kutcher and Moore tied the knot in 2005 and finalized their divorce in 2013.
The That's '70s star is now married and shares two children with co-star Mila Kunis. Moore hasn’t remarried, though she was previously wed to Freddy Moore and later Bruce Willis, with whom she shares daughters Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah.
In her 2019 memoir Inside Out, the 62-year-old Substance actress opened up about difficult moments in the marriage, including her relapse and allegations of infidelity involving a 21-year-old woman. Kutcher has never publicly addressed the claims.
In a 2023 interview with Esquire, Kutcher reflected on the impact of Moore’s book, saying, “I’d finally gotten to a place where the press had really laid off me and [wife Mila Kunis], and my life and my family. And then the next day, [the paparazzi] are at my kids’ school.”
He stopped himself mid-thought and added, “I don’t want to open anything up in that realm.”
The Two and a Half Men actor also shared what it was like stepping into a parental role in his twenties: “I was twenty-six, bearing the responsibility of an eight-year-old, a ten-year-old, and a twelve-year-old. That’s how some teen parents must experience their twenties.”
Despite the divorce, he maintained a strong connection with Moore’s daughters. On the WTF with Marc Maron podcast in 2020, he said: “I was helping raise teenage girls through their adolescence. I love them."
"I’m never going to stop loving them and respecting them and honouring them and rooting for them to be successful in whatever they are pursuing. I was never trying to be their father."
"I always had respect and honoured Bruce [Willis]... If they don’t want an engagement with me, I’m not going to force it upon them. But they all do, and it’s great," he added.