Has it really come to this? We’ve heard that Demi Moore’s daughters are avoiding her, that they’ve shut her out without responding to her at all, and that she hasn’t gotten the hint and has been calling and texting them constantly. Both US Weekly and Radar Online have been running these stories, and while it’s possible US picked it up from Radar, they claimed to have a source. Supposedly Demi and her three daughters have been estranged since the youngest, Tallulah, 18, graduated from high school last month. The girls are said to have had a huge argument with Demi, who sat by herself and left the graduation before Tallulah received her diploma.

Supposedly it’s gotten so bad with Demi begging them to contact her that her daughters are considering taking out a restraining order to prevent her from contacting them further. We’ve also heard that they don’t think their mom is sober after her recent stint in rehab earlier this year. So there’s probably some complicated family sh*t going on. Here’s the story from Radar, and I’m excerpting two stories here as they have a follow-up in which they claim Demi “constantly attacks the girls for staying friends with Ashton.”

“Rumer, Scout and Tallulah are seriously considering taking out a restraining order against Demi to stop her from contacting them,” a source close to the family tells RadarOnline.com. “They made it clear to her weeks ago that they do not want to talk to her right now but she is still trying to contact them.

“Demi has been calling them incessantly and emailing them, leaving them tearful messages and begging them to call her and the girls are sick of it. It is a really drastic measure and not something they are considering lightly but they just feel like they want some peace and quiet.”

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Moore, 49, is distraught over losing contact with her three daughters.

“Demi is beside herself over the situation,” a source previously told RadarOnline.com. “She hasn’t spoken to Scout, Rumer or Tallulah for weeks now, they won’t return any of her calls, emails or texts.

“The girls have cut off all contact with Demi, and she is absolutely devastated by it. She has returned to work and is trying to hold herself together, but this is a really tough time for Demi.”

The Willis girls wouldn’t be the first celebrity spawn to legally stop a troubled parent from contacting them. Francis Bean Cobain was granted a restraining order against her mother, Courtney Love in 2009.

However, it may not be that simple for the Willis girls if they do decide to try to take out a restraining order against their mother. A legal expert tells Radar they will have to prove more than just annoying phone calls: “You can’t get a restraining order against your mom when she’s trying to call you. If that were the case, many, many more people would all be in court!!”

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“Ashton cheating on Demi humiliated her, and when she got out of the relationship she thought she was setting a good example for her daughters, so when they stayed close to Ashton it devastated her….

However, Ashton has remained active in the lives of all of his step-daughters, attending concerts that they’ve performed in and supporting them through their mother’s substance abuse troubles, and this has caused Demi to become enraged with her daughters.

“She doesn’t understand how they could stay close with Ashton after he humiliated her and she’s asked them to stop talking with him but they refuse,” the friend said.

“Demi can’t let that go and can’t get over it, so she constantly attacks the girls for staying friends with Ashton. They’ve had it with her over that.”

[From two stories on Radar Online]

That’s harsh, and it makes me wonder whether one of the girls is leaking this news in order to put Demi on notice. If it’s so bad that they’re considering a restraining order, maybe they think it’s somehow gentler to give the tabloids a heads up so Demi will hear about it. If they get a restraining order it becomes People Magazine level news, and that’s truly humiliating.

So what’s going on with Demi? Is she still addicted to whatever prescription drugs she’s probably on (watch this video and tell me she’s sober. That was pre-rehab though) and is that contributing to how miserable and needy she is? Did she see Ashton once a week for counseling and spend the night with him last month and is that making this worse for her? (The Enquirer claimed that was the case, but it sounds like wishful thinking on her part.) This is a woman who has not come to terms with the end of her marriage and the current state of her career, to put it lightly. It seems like her kids have taken sides, and she’s not having it and making it much worse than it needs to be.

Demi is shown on 1-24 and 1-15-12. There are few recent photos of her, she’s been hiding out despite starting work on a new film in NY. Credit: Andrew Evans / PR Photos, FameFlynet

File photo of Demi and Ashton

All I can say about this story, and I’ll say it at the beginning, is that I hope it’s not true. It sounds way too detailed, down to specific dates and places, to be made up, but who knows? The last we heard about Demi Moore, she was being shunned by her daughters after a disastrous family get together at her youngest daughter, Tallulah’s, high school graduation. Demi’s three daughters are refusing to return her calls and messages, according to both Radar and US Weekly, and Demi is said to be “devastated” and “beside herself.”

There’s one person in Demi’s life that’s providing some support, and probably false hope, if this report is true. Her ex/estranged “husband” Ashton Kutcher is said to be attending weekly Kabbalah marriage counseling sessions with Demi, and to have even spent the night with her last month. We’ve heard that Ashton is dating Mila Kunis, but that he’s trying to keep it casual. (And Mila doesn’t want the news to get out that she’s with the douche.) Mila allegedly knows that Demi and Ashton are talking and has told Ashton to limit contact with Demi, but she doesn’t know that they’re still sleeping together. This whole thing just sounds like a mess. Here’s more:

In a dramatic turn of events, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are undergoing secret counseling in a last-ditch effort to save their badly battered marriage…

Demi and Ashton, who never filed for divorce, are attending regular therapy sessions and have resumed a romantic relationship, say sources.

Incredibly, Ashton is trying to heal his marital wounds while at the same time enjoying a “friends with benefits” fling with stunning actress Mila Kunis, the sources add.

“Ashton and Demi are meeting on an almost weekly basis for counseling,” revealed an insider. “They’re bonding and are talking on the phone constantly.”

The two are attending Kabbalah-based therapy sessions, helped by two of the mystical Jewish sect’s biggest proponents, writer Danny Spektor and Rabbi Yahuda Berg, who officiated at the couple’s 2005 wedding.

It’s going so well that on June 3, Demi, 49, and Ashton, 34, shared a night of passion at Spektor’s Los Angeles-area home, confided the insider…

“Ashton and Mila have been close friends for years, and she’s eager for commitment,” said the insider. “Meanwhile, she doesn’t even know that Demi and Ashton are going through counseling and spending nights together…

“While Ashton is commited to putting his marriage to Demi back on track, he’s trying to decide what to do about Mila,” said the insider. “He wants to stay friends but he has to figure out how to let her down easy.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, July 23, 2012]

Here’s the thing, I believe that Ashton is capable of this. I think he had a lot of guilt over leaving Demi and that he doesn’t mind how she worships and clings, as long as he has his freedom too. That’s pretty much how he was treating her the last few years they were together while he was screwing around on the side. I also think he’s deep into Kabbalah and sees his cheating as some personal failure he needs to overcome. Remember how he went on a “spiritual” camping retreat with Demi right around the time that we heard they were breaking up?

I buy that Demi would get back with Ashton in a heartbeat, since she seems like a needy addict who hasn’t moved on from that relationship. But I don’t buy that Ashton is serious about reuniting. I think he’s just playing both sides for now. This story sounds like spin from Demi’s camp. “He wants to let Mila down easy,” etc.

There’s another story in Star this week that gives the other side – Demi is calling Ashton constantly and Mila has made him limit contact with her.

“Mila’s fed up with Demi’s endless phone calls,” an insider tells Star. “At first she was understanding – she knew they had to discuss the divorce and practical things like that – but it’s been getting worse. She’s wondering if Demi is doing it on purpose.”

Not only will Demi, 49, dial incessantly until her ex answers, but her calls also seem to come at the most inopportune times…

It’s gotten so bad that Mila has laid down the law with her new beau: One call from Demi per night, then the phone gets turned off…

“He is so done with Demi’s depression and drama,” the source says. “Mila is a breath of fresh air.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, July 23, 2012]

As for whether Demi and Ashton need to figure out their “divorce,” it’s telling that no one has filed papers yet. We’ve heard that their marriage was never legal, and was only a “spiritual” one within Kabbalah, which would explain it.

This side of the story sounds more likely, but let’s put this all into perspective. These two women are fighting over Ashton f’ing Kutcher! I get Demi still being hung up on him, but what the hell is Mila’s problem? She could do so much better.

These are file photos of Demi and Ashton. Demi is shown alone in October, 2011. Ashton and Mila are shown out in West Hollywood on 6-30-12. He’s also shown taking a hike with friends on 6-24-12. Credit: FameFlynet and Pacific Coast News

Last week, Radar ran a story about how Demi Moore’s three daughters, Rumer, 23, Scout, 20, and Tallaluh, 18, weren’t talking to her. This report came on the heels of months of stories about how Demi’s daughters were embarrassed by her and wanted her to get her act together. Apparently Tallulah’s high school graduation was the final straw for the girls, who were upset at their mom’s behavior. A source told Radar “None of the girls wanted Demi there but she turned up anyway and it was really strained. They had a huge fight afterwards and the girls decided it would be in their best interests to take a break from Demi for a while.” To complicate things, the girls are said to want to continue to see their ex step dad, Ashton Kutcher, while Demi is dead set against them having any sort of relationship with him.

The latest issue of US Weekly also carried this story, and they had some more details about how poorly the graduation went. This is kind of supported by photos taken at the time, which show Demi looking pissed off all by herself while the girls hang out with their dad, Bruce Willis. Here’s some of US’ story:

“There’s a wedge between Demi and her girls,” says a source. “Demi spends most of her time in Idaho, not L.A.” [The girls], says the source, are tired of “walking on eggshells” around Moore, 49, who went to rehab in February after her split with Ashton Kutcher, 34. At Tallulah’s high school graduation, says a witness, Moore sat away from her family, “didn’t speak to them” and left before her daughter got her diploma.”

[From US Weekly, print edition, July 23, 2012]

That’s good that Demi is in Idaho, it’s probably better for her there, but she’s away from her daughters too. Things are worse than that, if you go by Radar’s latest story. Demi is said to be desperately trying to contact her daughters, and they’ve shut her out entirely. Supposedly they were fighting a lot, Demi was being too needy, and now her daughters won’t talk to her at all. She’s said to be “devastated” and “beside herself.” Here’s more:

“Demi is beside herself over the situation,” a source close to the family tells RadarOnline.com. “She hasn’t spoken to Scout, Rumer or Tallulah for weeks now, they won’t return any of her calls, emails or texts.

“The girls have cut off all contact with Demi, and she is absolutely devastated by it. She has returned to work and is trying to hold herself together, but this is a really tough time for Demi.”

As previously reported, Demi’s daughters severed ties with their troubled mother after months of drama with no end in sight.

“Rumer, Scout and Tallulah just don’t want to deal with the drama at the moment,” a source close to the family previously told RadarOnline.com. “Since breaking up with Ashton, Demi has been a mess. The girls were there for her through it all — the split and the rehab but now they just feel like they need a little distance.

“Demi is just being very needy right now and the girls are tired of it, they want a mother not another little sister. They are all concerned that she is going to relapse and head back to rehab and they can’t deal with the stress and worry of it.”

[From Radar]

I would feel more for Demi if we knew she was sober and trying to get her act together, but recent reports suggest that’s not the case at all. Maybe her daughters are fed up with seeing their mom like that and have no idea what else to do except to avoid her.

Demi is back working again. She was seen on the NY City set of Very Good Girls, with Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen and Richard Dreyfus, earlier this week. All we have are these photos of her covering her face though. Would it kill her to let them get a few photos and to smile?

Photo credit: TNYF/WENN.com

Rumer, Demi and Tallulah in 2007

During the holiday, the news came out that there were topless photos being shopped around of Tallulah Willis, 18, laughing and smoking what appeared to be a joint. I was going to write that we’ve already seen Tallulah with her ass hanging out, but I was mistaken, that was her older sister, Scout, 20. Scout turns 21 at the end of the month, and given her history with underage drinking we’ll probably hear something about that when it happens. I didn’t find that story about Tallulah too shocking or newsworthy, since it’s just some pot and boobs, but it’s possible those photos will surface online or in a tabloid soon. One of Tallulah’s acquaintances probably sold her out.

Anyway we’ve heard that Demi Moore’s relationship with her daughters has been strained, to say the least, since even before she went to rehab. Tallulah and Scout were reportedly embarrassed by how their mom was going off the rails after her split with Ashton. Back in February, In Touch reported that Tallulah and Scount wanted “nothing to do” with Demi. Tallulah was living with dad Bruce Willis at the time and Scout was off at college. Demi was said to have had a decent relationship with her oldest daughter Rumer, 23, and we know she was partying with Rumer and her young buddies when she ended up overdosing. (She was even hitting on Rumer’s guy friends, allegedly.)

Then last month we heard all about Tallulah’s high school graduation and how Demi forbade her ex, Ashton, from attending. Back then Radar quoted a source who claimed that her daughters didn’t think Demi was sober. “They’re really worried about everything she is doing lately and they’re getting mad at her. Demi has been doing things that make them worry that maybe she isn’t staying sober and they’re not happy about her behavior. The last thing these girls need is dealing with their mother going through yet another episode.”

Well now Radar claims that since the graduation happened the girls, including Rumer, aren’t talking to their mom at all. What’s more is that they all want to stay friendly with their ex stepdad, Ashton, which of course makes their relationship with Demi even more awkward. Here’s more:

Demi Moore’s daughters are no longer talking to their troubled mother, a source close to the family tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.

The source says the relationship between the three girls and Demi has reached “breaking point” after a series of fights and they have cut off all contact with her.

“Rumer, Scout and Tallulah just don’t want to deal with the drama at the moment,” a source close to the family tells RadarOnline.com. “Since breaking up with Ashton, Demi has been a mess. The girls were there for her through it all — the split and the rehab but now they just feel like they need a little distance.

“Demi is just being very needy right now and the girls are tired of it, they want a mother not another little sister. They are all concerned that she is going to relapse and head back to rehab and they can’t deal with the stress and worry of it.

“The breaking point was Tallulah’s graduation. None of the girls wanted Demi there but she turned up anyway and it was really strained. They had a huge fight afterwards and the girls decided it would be in their best interests to take a break from Demi for a while.

“Another huge bone of contention has been the girls’ relationship with Ashton. They all adore him and talk to him regularly which Demi hates, but he was a huge part of their lives when they were growing up and they don’t want to break off all contact with him.

“This won’t be forever, but for now the girls just need a little breathing space and to concentrate on themselves and their own lives.”

[From Radar]

You know I’ve had a lot of sympathy for Demi. Some people find her insufferable, but I just think she’s lost her way and doesn’t know how to pick up the pieces. I’m gradually coming around to the idea that she’s an addict and a mess, though. Maybe she’s just embarrassed and laying low, but we haven’t seen one interview with her since she got out of rehab. She’s executive producing an interview show with her friend Amanda de Cadenet for Lifetime called The Conversation. Demi could have easily sat down with Amanda and talked about things, but she hasn’t. I get that she’s too close to the situation still, and maybe she wants to process everything before she makes another public appearance.

I just found this video of Demi doing a press conference for the show back in October. At first I thought it was from earlier this year, after she got out of rehab, but it’s before. (Demi speaks at :50 and 2:18 if you want to skip to those parts.) Demi’s speech is slurred and she has trouble finding her words in this video. She’s able to articulate her thoughts, but she seems sleepy and drugged up. Again, this is before she went to rehab, so maybe she’s sober now, but this latest story is making me doubt that. I guess I don’t blame her daughters for trying to distance themselves from her. It must be painful to have a mom who’s an addict. Still, do they have to hang out with Ashton? They should be avoiding that guy too.

Photos of Demi at Tallulah’s graduation are here. She looks pissed off!

Demi, Ashton and Tallulah in 2008

Tallulah in 2012 at Coachella

Scout with her dad and stepmom in 2010

These event photos with Demi are from 2007 and 2008. Tallulah is shown alone at Coachella on 4-14-12. I hope her clothes got wet or something and someone lent her that awful hoodie to wear. Scout is shown in 2010 with her dad and stepmom. Photo credit: Fame and WENN

These are some new photos of Joe Manganiello at the LA Film Festival premiere of Magic Mike last night. His suit is incredibly shiny. And it looks… tight. He’s a really big guy, so I’m thinking that he has some tailoring issues. Either that, or he just loves a slim-cut suit. Anyway, last week, random tabloid sources claimed that Joe was “helping Demi Moore get her groove back”. I said at the time that it sounded like Demi’s horribly ineffective publicity team was attempting to make her sound sexy and desirable to yet another younger man. And of course Joe had to come out and deny it:

Joe Manganiello is single . . . and happily so! The Magic Mike stud, 35, was first linked to Demi Moore, 49, in early June after witnesses spotted them chatting and during the That’s My Boy after party in L.A. But in an interview on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show Thursday, Manganiello assured women everywhere that “there is 100 percent zero truth” to relationship rumors.

(Moore split with Ashton Kutcher, 34, in November 2011 after six years of marriage; he had been unfaithful to her on numerous occasions, most notably with party girl Sara Leal on their sixth wedding anniversary.)

At the Samsung Galaxy S III launch in Beverly Hills later that night, Manganiello admitted to Us Weekly that he typically doesn’t “care to talk about his personal life, unless it is to shoot down rumors that I’m dating someone — like what showed up on the internet this week.”

Though he was hesitant to say much more about his personal life, Manganiello — whose engagement to model Audra Marie ended in 2011 — was delighted to talk about his role as an exotic dancer in Magic Mike.

“You have no idea what you are in for! You are going to be speechless,” he promised. “It’s really to an honor to be a part of the movie, and when I found out Steven Soderbergh was directing, I was all in.”

To prep for his role as Big Dick Richie, Manganiello consulted “a really good friend who was a male stripper in Dallas in the ’90s” and enrolled in “stripper boot camp” with costars Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer and Matthew McConaughey.

“It consisted of doing body and hip rolls in the mirror for hours on end,” he laughed to Us. “Funny, but I’m serious.”

[From Us Weekly]

But! It seems like Joe might not be completely single – he’s just NOT dating Demi Moore. People Magazine notes that Joe was seen with a “tall, leggy blonde” last Thursday and that he and the blonde were “canoodling and definitely getting cozy.”

Page Six also has a little piece about Joe this morning – they discuss, in somewhat graphic terms, Joe’s role in Magic Mike and how BIG certain things are. You can read that piece here.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

I pretty much think Joe Manganiello is a dumb beefcake. And I pretty much think Demi Moore is just dumb. So would a possible pairing of these brain-cell-impaired people bring me joy? Not so much. British tabloids are claiming that Demi and Big Joe are possibly in the middle of something. Allegedly, Demi and Big Joe met a few weeks ago, and… that’s basically it. They met at a party. They talked for a while. Demi flirted and invited Joe back to her home to enjoy some Whip-Its. And the rest is history…

She’s had a very difficult year after splitting from Ashton Kutcher and being admitted to rehab for ‘eating disorder and addiction issues’. But now Demi Moore is getting her life back on track, and has apparently hit it off with a new man – True Blood star Joe Manganiello.

According to reports, Demi, 49, and Joe, 35, were spotted enjoying each others company at the after-party following the premiere of the actor’s new movie That’s My Boy at Los Angeles’ Napa Valley Grille earlier this month.

A source told heat magazine: ‘They looked amazing together. Demi was getting a lot more attention than a lot of the younger girls in the room, and Joe was seen waiting for her before they went off and hung out together at the party. They had amazing chemistry.’

The pair first met when they both signed up to appear in the movie Magic Mike, in which Joe stars as stripper Big Dick Richie. And despite Demi pulling out of the film following her breakdown, the pair have reportedly kept in touch.

The source added: ‘Demi has finally got her groove back – and it’s all thanks to meeting Joe. She’s feeling confident again and, more importantly, sexy.’

However, it remains to be seen what Demi’s ex Ashton Kutcher makes of her new relationship, as he actually starred alongside Joe in an episode of sitcom Two And A Half Men last year.

Meanwhile, it has also been claimed that Demi has gained nearly a stone after sticking to a new healthy eating regime. The actress had sparked concern with her worryingly thin frame when she dropped to less than seven stone ahead of being admitted to rehab. But now Demi, who was spotted at her daughter Tallulah’s graduation on June 7th, is looking much healthier after adopting a new eating plan.

An insider told heat: ‘Back then Demi was basically living on Red Bull but now she’s eating balanced meals that include protein, complex carbs and organic vegetables. She’s also been swimming and doing yoga every day and has gained just over a stone.’

[From The Mail]

“She’s feeling confident again and, more importantly, sexy.” UH. Why is the idea of Demi “feeling sexy” the most important thing? Demi had to go to rehab and her recovery is still fragile, but YES. The most important thing is that Demi feels sexy.

So… is there any truth to this report? Eh. It feels like a plant from Team Demi, and I say that because Team Demi is where PR goes to die. They don’t know what to do with her, so they’re just throwing her (fictitiously) at random, young beefcake. The fact that she goes for consistently younger men is only a symptom of a larger problem I have with Demi. That larger problem? Demi thinks that if she acts 22 years old, dates young dudes, and goes under the knife in a vain attempt to look 22 years old, that somehow she’ll be 22 and it just doesn’t work that way.

Photos courtesy of WENN, EW.

Over the weekend, the whole Willis-Moore clan was reunited in LA for Tallulah’s high school graduation. Demi Moore made a rare public appearance for the event, and she ended up showing off her healthier-looking figure. We don’t have access to the photos, but you can see some of them here – compared to how Demi looked six months ago, she looks much, much better these days. She’s put on a little weight, her face isn’t a crazy mask of Botox, and hey, she wasn’t doing Whip-Its with high schoolers (that we know of). Unfortunately, Radar is now reporting that Demi isn’t her daughters’ favorite person right about now. Rumer, Scout and Tallulah all think Demi is still very unhealthy:

Demi Moore’s daughters have been by her side during her traumatic collapse at her home, then throughout her rehab stay, but RadarOnline.com has learned that the girls are increasingly worried about their mother and her recent behavior.

“Rumer, Scout and Tallulah are growing apart from their mother lately,” a source close to the family tells RadarOnline.com about Demi’s relationship with her children by her ex-husband Bruce Willis.

“They’re really worried about everything she is doing lately and they’re getting mad at her. Demi has been doing things that make them worry that maybe she isn’t staying sober and they’re not happy about her behavior. The last thing these girls need is dealing with their mother going through yet another episode.”

The girls were all together at Tallulah’s high school graduation over the weekend where Demi showed up looking very skinny in a short black dress.

“Things were really tense at the graduation,” the source says. “Demi did not look healthy and did not seem in a good place. All three girls are concerned she may have relapsed.”

RadarOnline.com has also learned that while the girls wanted their estranged step-dad Ashton Kutcher to attend the graduation, Demi wouldn’t allow him.

“Demi said no way when she heard that Ashton wanted to go. She doesn’t like how close he is to her daughters and especially now she doesn’t want them hanging out with him,” the source says.

The relationship between Demi and her three daughters has been strained for a few months and the source says that they are concerned about their future.

“Demi and the three girls are not close right now and their relationship is strained with a lot of bad feelings,” the source says. “Things need to change so that Demi’s daughters can feel better about her.”

[From Radar]

Demi wouldn’t allow Ashton to come to the graduation? So much for that report a few weeks back about Ashton and Demi possibly reconciling after they spent some time talking with each other at a Kabbalah event. Of course, that report made Demi seem like she was kind of desperate to get back with Ashton and he was just being nice to her. Do you have an opinion on Ashton remaining in his former stepdaughters’ lives? On face value, I think it’s nice that Ashton seems to be maintaining relationships with the girls. But I also suspect there are several different layers to the relationships. I don’t know… it feels like Ashton wants to come out of everything looking like the good guy, and he might be using his stepdaughters’ affections to further that cause? Or is that very cynical of me? Eh. When are they ever going to divorce, by the way? Neither one of them has filed. Maybe their marriage was never legal in the first place.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

After enjoying the sexual favors of several of the hottest 20-something women in the world, Ashton Kutcher might be going back to Demi Moore. Or so Radar and other media outlets would have you believe. Over the past year, Ashton has banged Rihanna, Mila Kunis, some screenwriter, and probably dozens of club girls and randoms. But will he always come back to Demi? Er… I don’t think so. I actually think this whole story sounds like Demi’s wishful thinking, and that makes me so, so sad.

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher split last year following his very public cheating scandal and they’ve been separated for months but a new report is claiming that the Hollywood superstars may be headed for a shocking reconciliation.

They apparently were together this week at a birthday party for the man who officiated their wedding, and their reunion was an emotional one, with the couple “locked in a 60-second embrace,” at one point.

“They are still desperately in love and could be on for a reconciliation,” a source told the Sunday Mirror about Demi and Ashton. “The divorce isn’t being processed right now.”

Demi, 49, and Ashton, 34, were married for six years when he was caught cheating on their wedding anniversary, first reported by RadarOnline.com and Star magazine. But their recent reunion seems to have rekindled their feelings for each other.

According to the Sunday Mirror, Ashton gave a speech at Kabbalah Rabbi Yehuda Berg’s 40th birthday party and teared up when he said “I’ve made all these horrendous mistakes in the last year.”

A guest at the party said “Ashton’s voice started to break as he spoke. He just fell into tears. He sat down to a round of applause while Demi just looked frozen.”

Ashton, 34, reportedly arrived at the party at the Beverly Hills Hotel two hours before his ex and their interactions sparked the reconciliation buzz.

“Ashton was there quietly socializing and Demi showed up a couple of hours later looking amazing. She went over to wish Yehuda a happy birthday and Ashton was right by him. Yehuda left them to talk. They started to chat and were extremely affectionate. She was staring at him like a love-sick puppy,” a party guest told the Sunday Mirror.

They added details about the couple, saying that their actions insinuated that they were on the mend.

“They both sat at the front with a mutual friend between them. Demi got up to speak and spoke about family not necessarily being your blood but being people who love you. Then Ashton got up and he spoke about how amazing Yehuda was. He said that if Yehuda is your friend, he’ll love you unconditionally, no matter what mistakes you’ve made, before making the emotional admission that he had made mistakes. It was obvious he was referring to the break-up.”

Demi announced last year that she was separating from Ashton, and while she recently changed her Twitter name from MrsKutcher to JustDemi, neither party has yet to file for divorce.

[From Radar]

See? It sounds like Demi is the one who is like a “lovesick puppy” and Ashton is just trying to be nice to his wreck of an estranged wife. And yes, I know that’s an awful stereotype and some of you will start yelling at me, etc. But this conforms to the image I have of Demi, a Whip-It-using, plastic, delusional woman. While Ashton is trying to show her tenderness out of fear that she’ll have another breakdown, Demi reads his actions as “wanting to get back together.” And it’s not happening.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These photos of Demi are from September and January. Lainey Gossip has the latest photos of her

I don’t know when I became such a Demi Moore advocate, but I’ve felt a little protective of her these past few months after she had her hospitalization and rehab stint. She got cheated on publicly and she seemed so frail (literally) and lost following her separation. Of course Demi needs to put on her big girl britches and realize that her time as the sexy freewheeling chick has long since passed. She’s had a hard time coping with her divorce. It’s understandable. Hopefully she’s now sober, coming to terms with her life, and no long partying with her daughter.

There are several stories about Demi in the tabloids this week. First off is this gem in Star which claims that Demi has reached out to Oprah for help, after hearing from Jennifer Aniston how much Oprah helped her through her divorce with Brad Pitt. Oprah has allegedly answered the call in exchange for Demi’s first post-rehab interview. It’s not a bad strategy for either of them. I like that Demi is leaning on a non-denominational self help guru instead of continuing to turn to her scamming cult for support. This may be total bunk, though, because we just saw Demi at the launch party for her friend Amanda de Cadenet’s Lifetime talkshow, which she’s executive producing. So if she does talk to someone for the first time, it will probably be Amanda. (The preview of the show doesn’t feature Demi though.) Here’s some of the story from Star.

“Demi needs a strong mentor, so she reached out to Oprah a few days after leaving rehab, and they’ve been in touch ever since,” a source tells Star. “Demi never forgot that Jennifer Aniston told her Oprah was a godsend in helping her after she divorced Brad Pitt.

The newfound friendship could benefit Oprah too, by giving her struggling OWN network a much-needed boost. “Demi promises that when she’s ready, she will give Oprah her first postrehab, post-divorce interview,” explains the source. In return, “Oprah has said she’ll find her a job at the network.

“They’re always on the phone, chatting about everything from love-life woes to religion to their careers.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, April 30, 2012]

Is Demi going to get a show on OWN? Maybe Oprah will throw her a docu-reality about her triumphant self-awareness campaign after her divorce, like she did with Shania Twain. I watched about 20 minutes of the six-hour series and it was a snoozefest.

Meanwhile, Mike Walker in the National Enquirer claims that Demi is so hung up on Ashton she’s really floundering. She supposedly believes he’s still loves her, and that she just needs to have the right strategy to win him back. We’ve heard this about Demi before, many times, and I just hope that if this was the case that she’s getting help and moving forward.

“When Demi told worried friends that she absolutely believes Ashton’s still in love with her, and asked for advice on how to win him back, they realized she’s hopelessly addicted and obsessed with her ex,” said a close friend of the couple. “Everyone pleaded with her to seek professional help, and face the cold, hard fact that they’ll never be a couple again!” Incredibly, Demi’s even been begging her serial-cheater ex to enter couple’s therapy with her – and told him she’s desperately sorry she jumped the gun and filed for divorce so quickly. “But while Ashton’s supportive of Demi getting her life back together, he told her he’s NOT interested in trying to repair their broken relationship,” said the source. Demi, of course, was devastated.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column, April 30, 2012]

Finally, Radar has a story on Demi Moore’s “ravaged looks” that just makes me sigh. I think she got some fillers and/or Botox recently – her face looks lopsided and this is a very insecure woman we’re talking about. But I don’t think it’s fair to state it so very bluntly and to conclude that she’s ruined her looks forever. (Which they don’t state outright, to be fair.) She’s 49, she’s not going to look the same as she did 20 years ago no matter what she does. That’s normal, but she would look better with a little added weight, and it looks like she’s headed there.

Demi still hasn’t changed her Twitter handle from @mrskutcher. She recently tweeted that all the good names were taken.

This is a still from Demi’s upcoming movie with Miley Cyrus, LOL. People and Popsugar have new pics of Demi

Demi Moore is back, bitches! (I imagined Paris Hilton saying that in her bored whispery baby voice.) Earlier this week, Demi tweeted for the first time since January, sharing a self portrait of her legs and writing “testing.” Now she’s asking people for suggestions on how to change her handle on Twitter. Demi has kept her @mrskutcher username and was unwilling to change it back in December following her split. She wrote back then that “changing my twitter name isn’t a top priority right now. sorry it bothers so many of u. should I not tweet until I do?does it really matter?” She finally realizes that it does matter and is asking for help with a new moniker. She tweeted “Time for a change, twitter name change… any suggestions?” It sounds like she’s finally ready to move on and stop fixating on Ashton.

Demi also made her first public appearance post-hospitalization and rehab. Last night she went to a party for the launch of Amanda De Cadenet’s Lifetime talkshow “The Conversation.” We don’t have the photos from that event, but People has one and you can zoom in them on Popsugar. Demi looks much, much healthier and like she gained some needed weight. She does look a little “refreshed” to me, but maybe that’s the positive effect the weight gain had on her facial features. (Or maybe/probably she got some fillers.) Here’s more on Demi:

Demi Moore made her first official appearance since getting out of treatment, showing up Tuesday at a Beverly Hills house party to support her close friend, British TV host Amanda De Cadenet.

Hosted by InStyle Managing Editor Ariel Foxman, the intimate gathering celebrated the April 26 launch of De Cadenet’s Lifetime interview show, The Conversation. Moore is both executive producer of the show and one of its inspirations.

“The conversations that [Demi] and I have on a daily basis really reflect the questions on the show,” De Cadenet, 39, said in this week’s PEOPLE, currently on newsstands. “She was a great sounding board. The spirit of the show is about women supporting one another so [working with her] was great.”

Before stepping out Tuesday night, Moore had stayed almost entirely out of sight since leaving treatment. Since returning from an island vacation with friends in March, she has in fact been lying low at her L.A. home, focusing on moving forward with her life and career, says a source.

[From People]

Yay for Demi! It’s nice to see her getting back her mojo and looking sober and ready to face the world. I’d like to see her totally abandon Twitter and just keep a lock down on her personal life at this point. Small steps, I guess. I don’t know when I became such a Demi advocate, but I’m honestly happy to see her and am rooting for her. It was tough to watch her downward spiral and I’d love to see her give the proverbial middle finger to her stupid ex. Living well…