Bruce Willis’ Daughter Had a Crush on Ashton Kutcher That Turned Awkward After He Dated Demi Moore

Ashton Kutcher’s relationship with Demi Moore was a huge adjustment for their families. Things were made a bit more complicated when Moore’s daughter with Bruce Willis already had a strong celebrity crush on Kutcher.

How Rumer Willis reacted to Ashton Kutcher dating her mom

Moore already had a full household by the time she was dating Ashton Kutcher. She and Willis shared three children in Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah Willis, with Rumer being the oldest. When Kutcher began seriously dating Moore, he felt prepared to take on the responsibilities of fatherhood.

“I was twenty-six, bearing the responsibility of an eight-year-old, a ten-year-old, and a twelve-year-old,” Kutcher once told Esquire. “That’s how some teen parents must experience their twenties.”

But fortunately, Kutcher asserted that he had no problems with kids back then. Which might’ve made taking on the responsibility of fatherhood a bit easier.

“I love kids,” Kutcher said. “I wouldn’t have gotten married to a woman that had three kids if I didn’t love kids.”

But Kutcher’s relationship with Moore was initially an awkward situation for Rumer. This was partially because Rumer considered Kutcher one of her celebrity crushes.

“It was strange when mom, who is 15 years older than Ashton, started seeing him [in 2003]. I was 15 and he was a heart-throb to me – I had pictures of him on my wall,” Rumer once said according to Contact Music. “I remember mom saying her new ‘friend’ was going to hang out with us. I said, ‘What’s his name?’ and she said, ‘It’s Ashton’. And I said, ‘Whoa – Ashton Kutcher?’ I freaked out a bit and blushed.”

The awkwardness between Rumer and Kutcher was only short lived, however, after seeing Kutcher’s positive affects on her mom.

“I realized I’d never seen my mom happier. It was like watching two sixteen-year-olds going to the prom,” she said.

Why Rumer Willis was once upset with Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore

Kutcher and Moore would eventually try to give birth to a child of their own. Moore became pregnant in 2003, but experienced a miscarriage six months afterwards. It was a very challenging time for the couple, who handled the situation in different ways.

“Losing a kid that you think you’re going to have, and that close to thinking you’re going to have a kid, is really, really painful,” Kutcher said. “Everyone deals with that in different ways.”

As devastating as the moment was for Kutcher, Kutcher asserted that he wouldn’t change a thing.

“The idea of having another kid would have been incredible,” he said. “For whatever reason, I had to have that experience.”

But Moore’s pregnancy at the time also had an affect on Rumer. Rumer admitted that the attention on Moore’s and Kutcher’s new child made her feel cast aside.

“With Ashton, I was so angry because I felt like something that was mine had been taken away,” Rumer said on Red Table Talk (via HuffPost). “When she wanted to have another baby and then it wasn’t happening, and there was so much focus on that, it was like ‘Oh, well we’re not enough.’”

Rumer had a change of heart after seeing older pictures of Moore pregnant. That, and her maturity, made her feel like she was being very inconsiderate towards her mother’s situation at the time.

“I think after you had a miscarriage, I literally was just like, ‘Why are you so desperate to have another kid?’ I couldn’t stand the idea,” Rumer told Moore herself. “But then I found these pictures, and I was like, ‘Oh my god.’”

“‘Oh my god, I was so insensitive,'” Rumer remembered thinking at the time. “I never once went to you and said, ‘I’m so sorry,’ ‘Are you okay?’”