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Demi Moore reveals pain of losing baby in new memoir

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DEMI Moore lost a baby six months into her pregnancy.

The 56-year-old actress – who has daughters Rumer, 31, Scout, 28, and Tallulah, 25, with ex-husband Bruce Willis – was expecting a baby girl with her then-partner Ashton Kutcher and the couple planned to call the tot Chaplin Ray, but she suffered a late miscarriag­e.

According to the New York Times newspaper, which revealed Moore wrote about the tragedy in her new memoir Inside Out, the Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle star blamed herself and began drinking again.

Moore and Kutcher married in 2005 and pursued fertility treatments in a bid to have a child together but were unsuccessf­ul, they split in 2011. Moore continued drinking and began abusing Vicodin.

She then hit a low patch, with her partying causing a rift with her daughters. She recalled: “Part of my life was clearly unravellin­g. “I had no career. No relationsh­ip.”

And she then began suffering digestive and autoimmune problems, with even watching TV and reading becoming difficult.

She said: “Something was going on, including my organs slowly shutting down... The root was a major heavy viral load.”

Moore – who is now sober and back on good terms with her children – dismissed suggestion­s she’s penned her life story.

Her friend Gwyneth Paltrow believes the memoir has been vital for her pal to get back on track.

Paltrow added: “We think we just have to get through everything and bear the burden for everyone in our family.”

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